This is a popular dessert in South East Asia. I’ve seen it in restaurants specialising in Thailand, Indonesian or Vietnamese cuisine albeit with slight variations, and I myself grew up eating it. It is extremely easy to make and the recipe below has been adjusted so it is easier to find all of the…
Prawn in Balado Sauce
Balado sauce is Indonesian version of intense sweet and spicy sauce. It is extremely easy to make if you got everything on hand, and you can cook almost anything in it and you’ll have tasty food. Balado sauce is quite a flexible sauce, each household having their own twist and secret ingredient, you can add…
Tuna curry
Observe the picture below, specifically the ingredients. The first 3 items are the most important ingredients in the whole dish and if you have a well stocked pantry, you probably have them. The vegetations are simply whatever I can find on the day, you can even use frozen stuff. This is one of those recipes…
Food Gallery from My Recent Trip – part 3
The final part of the food gallery from my trip to Indonesia last year:
Casiu Fried Rice
Casiu pork, is Chinese sweet barbecue pork. Characterized by its deep red colour, it is a time consuming and delicious dish. We are not going to make our own Casiu pork today, but we are going to use them into fried rice. Also apology for the bad photo for this post. Essential components: • Casiu…
Pantry check – Rice
Ah yes, the humble rice. I am a regular rice consumer. If you’re thinking of consuming rice regularly, do yourself a favour and buy a rice cooker. You don’t even need an expensive model, you just need something that will produce properly cooked rice. My rice cooker cost $30 and it already served me for…
Food Gallery from My Recent Trip – part 2
Part 2 of the food gallery from my trip to Indonesia last year:
Eggdrop Tofu soup
I’m not sure what to call this dish. Originally I was thinking of calling it ‘braised tofu and egg’ or ‘stewed tofu with egg’ but naming a dish stew implies long braising time, bold reduced flavour, and this dish isn’t any of those. This is the kind of tofu dish you see in a bainmarie…
Food Gallery from My Recent Trip – part 1
I went to Indonesia last year, and during the trip I made sure I tried as many interesting food and all sort of street food I could find. Without further ado, pictures (part 1):
Fresh Kale Smoothie
Not trying to jump on to the kale bandwagon here, but good food is good food right? So here’s one of my regular kale smoothie recipe. This smoothie is not too sweet while having only a slight hint of the raw grassy aftertaste. It is a kale smoothie that’s palatable. All the sweetness comes from…
My Top 3 Culinary Pet Peeves – Linguistic Edition
As much as I am a huge supporter of cultural exchange when it comes to culinary adventures, sometimes the barrier that is human language proofs that food, is in fact a better way to communicate than actual language. Here are my culinary (linguistic related) pet peeves: (Sidenote: Being a person whose English isn’t his first…
Pantry check – Dry Pasta
Watch any cooking show these days and eventually you will encounter the statement “Fresh pasta is always better than dried.” Restaurants boast of making their own pasta and we homecooks are being shamed for not doing one yourself because “Oh it’s not that hard to make your own pasta.” Perhaps, but welcome to real life….
A Random Food Blog 