Just a quick announcement that I will be at the annual Epping Twilight Markets again this year; details as follows – Location: Our Lady Help of Christians Catholic School, Epping Entrance: Cambridge or Oxford Streets, Epping Date: Friday 9 November 2018 Time: 5 pm – 9 pm You can find out more about it at http://eppingmarkets.com.au/. I’ve…
I was recently sent a box of Australian wines courtesy of Wine Selectors, a wine subscription company which sells wine from over 500 Australian producers, of bronze medal standard or higher. The pack I received was from their Australia’s First Families of Wine Favourites Mixed Collection, and this has given me the perfect opportunity to…
This, folks, represents my culinary raison d’être – the world famous Seremban Beef Noodles, otherwise known (in Cantonese) as Ngau Lam Fun; one of countless childhood memories that finally lured me away from IT consultancy and into food full-time some 17 years ago. To expand on that a little, the reason I got into this “food…
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….
If you’ve followed my Live Asian Kitchen broadcasts for any length of time, you would know that the term sambal belacan” (shrimp paste sambal) covers a number of different chilli dips – there’s raw sambal belacan which consists of pounding chillies with toasted shrimp paste, some seasoning plus a dash of fresh lime juice…
You’ve heard me say that many Asian ingredients go by different names in different countries (I’m assuming you watch my Live Asian Kitchen religiously; if not, why not). The reverse is also true – some ingredients with the same name actually mean different things in different countries. This is one example – Vietnamese Saté Sauce –…
My aversion to pork means I’ve rarely explored the cuisine of my own Hakka heritage, which seems to be dominated by pork dishes. This is one such example, made famous by a stall in my hometown of Seremban, hence its name – Seremban Hakka Noodles. Since I don’t eat pork, I’ve never actually eaten it….
Most people are familiar with Vietnamese Beef Pho, but what’s less well-known is that we similarly grew up with our own version of beef noodle soup back in Malaysia. I sort of split the difference in this broadcast where I retained the use of hearty chunks of beef brisket found in the Malaysian version, but…
This post was originally written to correlate with a different broadcast covering crispy noodles and fried wontons, and it contained the corresponding video embedded from Twitch. I found out a couple of weeks ago that Twitch videos are automatically archived after 2 months, which meant the original video would have been non-playable after that period. I made…
More than a few people over the years have been horrified to learn that I freely share all my recipes with the world. The reasons I do so can be boiled down to my belief that 1) there’s nothing new under the sun (Ecclesiastes 1:9) 2) there’s a lot more that goes into running a…