Making Hand-pulled Noodles

Hand-pulled noodles

Nothing is better than homemade noodles. It is free of preservatives and additives. Apart from the ’somen’ which is white in colour, almost all the rest of the yellow noodles are made with some alkaline water, also called lye water, added to it to give it the more elastic texture. The smell can be quite over powering if too much of this additive is added. My mom always asked us to make our own noodles if we can for health purposes. It is not too difficult to make.
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Peanut Butter Mochi Balls

Delicious peanut butter mochi balls

Mochi balls are made from glutinous rice flour. This is a very popular Asian dessert. I grew up eating a lot of this. My mom made very easy, delicious mochi balls. She just made plain ones and rolled them in sweet soya bean powder or peanut powder. They tasted so awesome.
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Vegetable Fritters With Yoghurt And Coulis

Fabulous vegetable fritters with salad and coulis

Vegetable Fritters With Yoghurt And Orange Raspberry Coulis…..my best ever fritters for breakfast. It’s such a healthy, vegetarian breakfast item. Talk about eating 5 vegetables a day, this is definitely one to go for. It goes so well with yoghurt, salad and orange raspberry coulis. It is simple, easy and quick to make. Here’s how I did it.
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Top 8 Important Characteristics Of A Food Blog

Have you ever thought ‘What makes a food blog outstanding?’ Have you ever wonder why some food blogs captivate your attention while others don’t?

I have been reading a lot of other people’s blogs for years before I started my own blog a few months ago.  Now I’m frequently asking myself those questions to help me improve my blog. I’m still enjoying blogging very much. I have made various changes to my blog and way of blogging over the past few months. There are definitely more rooms for improvement.
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Chicken Tonic Soup

Chicken Tonic Soup For Health

My family loves chicken soup, especially chicken tonic soups. My children always ask for soup. They love it with plain rice or with thin white Chinese noodles called ’somen’. We were brought up drinking a lot of tonic soups where my mom would add in Chinese herbs. It is believed that such chicken soups are very good to the body in health-building purposes.
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Healthy Salmon Salad

Lovely Salmon Salad

I love salmon. I have tried Teriyaki Salmon which is pan fried and another Asian Baked Salmon. I thought I should try boiling the salmon to make a salad with tomato and herbs and my favourite salad dressing. It came out really good. It’s such a delicious starter. It is also a healthy salad. I actually had a big helping. It looks and tastes awesome yet deceptively easy to prepare. Here is my recipe to share. It’s enough for 2 persons.
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Asian Dinner Menu For 6

Lovely meal with friends

Food and Friends…..it’s always a perfect match. Food always brings people together and it never fails to bring smiles onto faces.

Preparing A Meal Can Be Stressful

But preparing a meal for friends can be quite a stressful event if you don’t know how to cook well. I remember in my early days when I didn’t really know how to cook, I would be so anxious and stressed up for days before the day arrived. Then when the event is over, I would heave a big sigh of relief that finally it was over!
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Spiral Chicken Curry Puffs (Part 2 - Pastry)

Awesome, delicious spiral chicken curry puff

Cooking the Spiral Chicken Curry Puff filling is easy (click here for making the filling) but the pastry takes more time and skill. With a little patience and practice, you will find it very easy. The first few that I did didn’t come out too well but soon it became easy. Here’s how I did it:
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