#TelstraFail Season 2 Episode 4 (Final) - after two days of back-and-forths with Netgear, the manufacturer of the modem connected to my Telstra service, I was told that it was definitely a faulty modem. Good news was that Netgear said they would replace it; bad news was that I had to go through Telstra. Hell would have to freeze over before I » Read More
How to Make Cassava Cake and Fried Bananas
May 25, 2017 by
#TelstraFail Season 2, Episode 3 So right after my 6-dropout broadcast, I called the Westfield Miranda Telstra store where I’d signed up for the service days earlier. Explained the symptoms to the woman on the phone, who responded - no worries, just bring it back in we can run some tests on it here since you signed up less than 30 » Read More
How to Make Curry Puffs (Air Fryer)
May 23, 2017 by
AKA #TelstraFail - Season 2, Episode 1 (Season 1 ended with a call from Telstra’s CEO’s team per updated on this blog post >> My Case Against Telstra — a third world service run by first class bullies A cautionary tale - when you sign up for a new Telstra service, don’t be fooled by the world-class reception you get at the Telstra store » Read More
How to Use Glutinous (Sticky) Rice – 2 Vegan Recipes
May 12, 2017 by
This was my second time using my new Optimum Induction Pressure-Cook Pro, and I wanted to see if it would allow me to skip the “soak for 8 hours before use” step that usually comes with sticky rice recipes. I cooked the sticky rice by adding a bit more water than you would for white rice, then set the pressure cooker on the “porridge” setting » Read More
Bonne Maman Cheese Pairings & Mother’s Day Giveaway
April 21, 2017 by
The international trend of pairing jam with cheese (no, I wasn’t aware of it - I’m so Malaysian it hurts) has arrived on Australian shores, just in time for Mother’s Day. Since I’m a big fan of Bonne Maman, I thought I might share some of the suggestions they released courtesy of expert cheese educator Sonia Cousins - Bonne Maman has very » Read More
How to Make Soy Milk and Crispy Fried Onions
March 30, 2017 by
It’s not that I’d run out of ideas for recipes, but the fact was simply that I needed to stock up on soy milk and crispy fried onions, and I hadn’t covered these recipes on Twitch previously, so I thought I might as well kill two birds with one stone (sorry again, vegans; I’m too tired to think of a cruelty-free idiom). Soy » Read More
How to Make Sweet Potato Crisps with Sweet Chilli Sauce
March 29, 2017 by
(Based on Kerepek Ubi Pedas Basah) This is based on the Indonesian cassava snack called Kerepek Ubi Pedas Basah which you can find at select grocery stores (here in Sydney anyway). I figured sweet potato is much more readily available here, so I made a judgement call and changed the recipe to sweet potato crisps. Sweet Potato » Read More
How to Make Roti Canai and Vegetarian Dip
March 27, 2017 by
One of my most popular queries concerns how to flip roti canai (aka roti prata if you’re from Singapore) so I figured what better way than to livestream it with a guest in my studio. Host of radio show the Asian Jazz Hour on Northside 99.3FM, Tony Pang, joined me in this episode - and notwithstanding his first attempt, I think he managed to pick it » Read More
How to Make Sago Gula Melaka and Pengat Pisang
March 23, 2017 by
It occurred to me while scrambling to figure out what to make in this weekly Vegan livestream, that most Southeast Asian desserts are, in fact, vegan. I reckon I should publish a Southeast Asian Snacks and Desserts cookbook, then do a separate cover to say Southeast Asian Vegan Snacks and Desserts and market that exclusively to vegans. I’d call » Read More
How to Cook Indonesian Crispy Fried Chicken (Ayam Goreng Kremes)
March 21, 2017 by
This was actually my third broadcast on the same recipe - the first one failed on a number of levels (main one being a 5-minute interruption while I was being served legal papers for a little hobby site I maintain, called RobbDemarestCheats.com). The second one would have been perfect but for my Category 5 hayfever attack, which saw me ducking » Read More