17/02/2012 by Shannon Lim-de Rooy | 26 Comments
Since the Korean wave hit South Asia 10 years ago, all things Korean have become increasingly popular. From K-pop music to food, the Korean culture is here to stay. It is not surprising that Korean Fried Chicken has become a hit in the nation of fried chicken lovers.
11/02/2012 by Shannon Lim-de Rooy | 50 Comments
If you have never had satay, you don’t know what you are missing! Satay is one of the must try Malaysian street food – charcoal grilled succulent skewered meat (chicken or beef) served with special satay sauce. Don’t get mixed up with the Malaysian Satay Sauce and the Thai Peanut Sauce, they are different. Continue Reading →
25/01/2012 by Shannon Lim-de Rooy | 6 Comments
The Chicken Vindaloo with Flat Bread photo on the calendar in my kitchen wall keeps calling out to me.. I hesitated a few times to try the recipe because the flat bread recipe looks a bit strange to me. Finally I succumbed to my senses, and gave both recipes benefit of the doubt? I told myself if the recipe is good enough to appear on the calendar of a worldwide brand, it should be credible.
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30/11/2011 by Shannon Lim-de Rooy | 8 Comments
I’ve been missing in action for almost a week, caught a flu bug from my mama who caught it from my grandpa. I took the much-needed rest, time out from cooking and writing. The weather around South East Asia should be getting hotter end of the year, but the daily rain seems to be helping the flu bug spread around. Please keep yourself warm and well rested.
Feeling much better today enough to start writing a short post. Today’s recipe should be very familiar to you if you are of a Chinese descent. You most likely know this soup, and you’ve probably made it dozens or maybe even hundreds of times before. Some people call this Luo Song Tang (罗宋汤), others call it ABC soup. Some Chinese restaurants refer to it as Chinese borscht on their menu. Why ABC? My take is because the soup so ridiculously easy to make, as easy as ABC. Whatever you choose to call it, the simple ingredients are simple and yet delicious. Great taste with little effort, what’s not to love? Continue Reading →
23/11/2011 by Shannon Lim-de Rooy | 14 Comments
Green Curry is one of my favourite Thai dishes that I will always order when I eat out at Thai restaurants. I have used packet Green Curry paste many time before, will buy loads of packet paste whenever I visit Thailand until I found the recipe for the paste recently. It’s relatively easy to make the paste from scratch as the ingredients are easily available in Malaysia.
