Crackling Skin Roast Pork or Sio Bak (脆皮烧肉）

This dish is done by my hubby. A simple 5 ingredients recipe. No need for fancy ingredients and tedious steps. Just get a good slab of pork and do each step (like cleaning and drying skin) meticulously and you are guaranteed success. We used fresh Indonesian pork, and requested butcher to cut for roasting. Our…

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Gradient Matcha Mousse Cake (抹茶慕斯蛋糕)

Thank you Amanda Taste for this beautiful cake with a delicious yet light taste. Please go to her YouTube to see detailed steps. I used a biscuit base and so this has become a non-baked cake. Also I upsized the cake to 7″ with some adjustments to the recipe. To increase success rate, do read…

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Kringle Bread (Cinnamon layer bread)

Super yummy bread if you like cinnamon. Looks so pretty too. Recipe 1 dough from Windsor Bread (温莎面包) Cinnamon spread 2 heap tbsp of sugar 40-50g soften butter 2 tsp cinnamon (adjust to taste) 1/4 tsp salt Method 1. Prepare a dough of Windsor bread, up to step 4. You can divide the dough into…

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Windsor Bread (温莎面包)

I haven’t tried new bread recipes in a while, mainly because I’ve been sticking to a couple of recipes that I liked so much that I’ve memorized. This one caught my eye, cause it’s fast and results all looked fabulous. The recipe is viral on Taiwanese blogs and FB groups. I easily achieved this soft,…

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Teochew Flaky Yam Mooncake

I think the shaping and layers are far from perfect. But I love the taste so much, 20 little mooncakes gone over 2 family gatherings. The skin is so flaky it’s hard to slice, but the buttery taste is delicious. Hope I can improve the layers next year. Keeping this recipe. Recipe (20 small mooncakes)…

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Easy Baked New York Cheesecake

A very easy recipe. There’s no issue of wet sunken centre or cracks at all. I made it pretty short because we all can’t take a thick slab of cheese at one go, so this is more like the height of a tart. Best part of the taste is the refreshing lemon juice that cuts…

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Japanese Cheese Cake (JCC)

Whoosh, I’m so happy with this Japanese Cheese Cake finally after fine-tuning and fine-tuning. Tested many times, no bubbly yolk batter, no kueh or dense layer and no cracks. Nice cottony texture too 🤗. I’ve been trying the few famous recipes but with little success. Most of the times I get a kueh layer at…

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Vietnamese Banh Mi

This bread has a crusty skin and soft, fluffy interior. The hydration is on the high side, so you might need to oil palms and surface when handling the dough. No need for perfect window pane as it is not meant to be a super soft bread. Recipe (makes 4, from Linda ) 150g plain…

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Salted Gula Melaka Nuts Drizzle

Just wanted to make a simple birthday cake for mom-in-law who doesn’t take butter or cream, but loves banana, all sorts of nuts. This cake turned out to be such a hit with many tasters saying they didn’t usually like banana or walnuts so much A note of caution, don’t use non-stick pans as I…

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