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New Shanghai Chinese Restaurant – Chatswood Chase, Chatswood, NSW

February 24, 2010 Chinese

This is a story about a Shanghai Girl and a Malaysian Boy.
Many moons ago, Malaysian Boy met Shanghai Girl through Flickr. It was a love at first sight connection that has bound them together ever since. But one day, Malaysian Boy made a tough decision by leaving things behind, and going anywhere around the world [...]

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Chinese New Year dinner feast at ATFT’s HQ

February 18, 2010 Chinese

Gong Xi Fa Chai!
Hope you all had a great time celebrating Chinese New Year or an intimate Valentine’s Day over the last weekend. I definitely had a blast with friends up to the coast to celebrate with me over a dinner banquet feast. As this year is The Year of The Tiger, so the theme [...]

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Chinese New Year Peanut Cookies (花生饼)

February 2, 2010 Baking

I’ve made the peanut cookies for the Chinese New Year again. Those little golden morsels of soft peanut crumbs that simply melt in the mouth like eating a dollop of peanut butter never fail to satiate my cravings. I’ve revised my previous recipe a little and yield a better result. You can grab the recipe [...]

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Pineapple Tarts for Chinese New Year – 凤梨酥/黄梨酥

February 1, 2010 Baking

The Chinese New Year is only two weeks away and I’ve been a very busy man slaving over hot stove (or oven) lately. Last year we had friends coming up to the Central Coast and we had so much fun celebrating the new year with a 9-courses Chinese dinner banquet. And I am doing it [...]

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Dark Soy Pork Spare Ribs – 老抽炒排骨

January 22, 2010 Chinese

My new food regime of back to basic continues after my steamed pork mince with salted duck egg proven to be a popular dish among food lovers with oriental background and I am so surprised to read how most of us can really relate our childhood memories to this simple dish. I am actually quite [...]

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Steamed Pork Mince with Salted Duck Egg – 咸蛋蒸猪肉

January 14, 2010 Chinese

I slowly discover that I have complicated things, especially in cooking. Looking back at my recipe archives, most of the recipes involved a lot of ingredients and a million steps to follow, which usually half a day to prepare one dish. What happen to the simple quick toss on the wok? What’s wrong with the [...]

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Crispy Roast Pork Belly – Siew Yuk (烧肉)

January 4, 2010 Chinese

L.O.V.E.
Whose recipes do you use or follow the most? Many cooks including myself rely on cookbooks now and again, or go search for recipes online. But when comes to home cooking, you simply can’t go past a good ole mum’s recipe. After cooking two rounds of momofuku bo ssam (you probably so sick of me [...]

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Chairman Mao Restaurant – Kensington, Sydney, NSW

November 30, 2009 Chinese

Chairman Mao is from the Hunan province in China and he loved his red-braised pork (紅燒肉). He even had his personal chef preparing this Hunanese dish to satiate his cravings. This dish has become his legacy and now Sydneysiders are able to try this dish at a Hunanese chinese restaurant in Kensington and undoubtedly the [...]

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Stir Fried Belacan Winged Beans (four-angled beans)

November 17, 2009 Chinese

There are some home cookings from Malaysia that I really miss. But I am also having troubles locating a few essential ingredients even if I bother to cook that authentic dish myself. Pandan leaves for instance, it is hard to come by in the area where I live. But in Sydney, heaps of them! I [...]

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Ten Ren Cha For Tea – Sydney CBD, NSW

September 28, 2009 Chinese

Why is it so difficult to find a restaurant that opens after 10pm in Sydney CBD?

I find it hard to believe that Sydney is a big city yet there are not many restaurants that open late. Friends from overseas laughed at me when I told them the shopping malls here in Australia closed at 5pm. [...]

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Mid-Autumn Mooncake – 中秋月餅

September 16, 2009 Chinese

Time flies, it is that time of year again. Chinese supermarkets are already stacking up tins and tins of mooncakes ready for Mid Autumn Festival (中秋节) which falls on 3rd October this year. On that night, the moon will be at its fullest, roundest and brightest!
Mid-autumn festival (中秋节) is definitely one of my favorite Chinese [...]

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Super Kitchen Chilli Ban Mee (辣椒板面) – SS2 Chow Yang, PJ Malaysia

September 14, 2009 Chinese

I ♥ Ban Mee. Full. Stop.
If you are Malaysian or Singaporean, then you probably would know what Ban Mee is. Ban Mee, also sometimes known as Min fun Kueh (麵粉粿), is a simple noodle dish usually for breakfast or lunch, and is made from two basic ingredients – plain flour and water. The noodle is [...]

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Guiling Restaurant – Ipoh, Malaysia

September 13, 2009 Chinese

I tried not to look at my holiday pictures, because it has only been three weeks since I got back from trip and I am already suffering withdrawal symptoms from all the delicious food! This afternoon I switched on the Lightroom, and spent a good hour just looking at the photos, no editing, nothing. Just [...]

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Dragon-i (籠的傳人) : 1 Utama Mall, PJ Malaysia

August 24, 2009 Chinese

A familiar sight of chefs in clinical white uniforms, complete with mouth masks; kneading dumplings away behind the aquarium glass tank. They called themselves the descendants of the “dragon” or phonetically – the “steamer basket”, as that’s what Dragon-i is famous for, steamy Xiao Long Bao.
Like Din Tai Fung, Dragon-i is another restaurant chains that [...]

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