Australia Day At Yaralla Estate – Jackie M Pop-Up
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Australia Day At Yaralla Estate – Jackie M Pop-Up

If you’ve been craving my food over the long summer break, here’s an opportunity to grab some of my Char Kway Teow and hand-rolled spiral curry puffs this coming Saturday evening. I’ll be running my pop-up at Yaralla Estate in Concord, Sydney, to celebrate Australia Day. There will be free entertainment in the form of…

How to Make Spicy Lamb Skewers with Cumin
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How to Make Spicy Lamb Skewers with Cumin

I first got a taste of spicy cumin lamb skewers during what was meant to have been a satay feast at my parents’ house in Sydney’s southwest. In amongst the hundreds of Malaysian satays that were cooked up that day, there  were also some Xinjiang-style lamb skewers; apparently it was a dish introduced to them…

How to Make Hakka Lo Pek Pan (Hakka Radish Cake)
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How to Make Hakka Lo Pek Pan (Hakka Radish Cake)

I sometimes feel sorry for those not born into the culture trying to learn all the nuances of Chinese food. It’s hard enough trying to wrap your head around the topic, let alone recognise all the different iterations of specific dishes by different Chinese dialect groups. Radish cake is one such example; the Cantonese version…

How to Make Jackie M’s XXO Sauce
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How to Make Jackie M’s XXO Sauce

I remember when XO sauce started popping up in Chinatown menus as an option for your stir-fried Chinese dishes a couple of decades ago, and thinking it must refer to cognac. I eventually learned that it was in fact a condiment made with dried scallops, an ingredient that’s expensive enough that it would deter me…

How to Cook Penang Char Koay Teow
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How to Cook Penang Char Koay Teow

Penang Char Koay Teow – A Wok Around Asia Recipe Courtesy of Parkroyal Penang Resort Folks, I’m very proud to present the first how-to video from my Wok Around Asia project, and it’s appropriately on Char Koay Teow (or Char Kway Teow), one of the most popular dishes from Malaysia’s street food capital of Penang….

How to Make Low-Carb Malaysian Prawn Noodle Soup (Har Meen)
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How to Make Low-Carb Malaysian Prawn Noodle Soup (Har Meen)

  This dish is known by different names depending on which part of Malaysia you grew up in; I know it as har meen (literally prawn noodles), and being pork-averse, I make mine with a combination of prawn and chicken stock, and top it with chicken in lieu of pork. The low-carb version covered in…