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WHEN my friend and former colleague Niki told me he wanted recipes so he can cook his own meals as he’d be a poor student in London, I didn’t take him all that seriously. I didn’t think he’d actually cook regularly, partly because he was never that keen a cook, and partly because I have [...]
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There was once upon in my life when I had an obsession with cookbooks… I bought cookbook after cookbook because there simply wasn’t a cookbook I didn’t think was uninteresting. I had a list of cookbooks I absolutely must have, and at least a cookbook I was reading cover to cover. There were cookbooks everywhere [...]
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I didn’t think my friend Niki Cheong was all that serious about cooking, but he has been making the one bowl rice I posted eons ago regularly (someone has been coming to me and repeating the title of my last post… takes nagging to a whole new level… she needs to nag me to loftier [...]
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THE recent weeks haven’t been so good in the kitchen for me. I haven’t had much success trying out new recipes, especially in baking bread. I wanted to try to cook pad thai, just so I could have a noodle dish that I can add condiments to, the way they do in Thailand. I finally [...]
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OUR short holiday in Taipei was kind of impromptu, although my sisters and I have been talking about going on a trip together for ages. We wanted an easy trip, and Taipei turned out to be an incredibly easy and uncomplicated city. It is not a flashy big city, but they’ve got all the important [...]
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OURS is not a big family… both my parents have two sisters each, and they are our closest relatives. We are a typical Chinese family; no one professes their love for each other, or hug, or kiss. But there is no mistaking the deep affection we have for the family, expressed in genuine big welcoming [...]
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I have not been blogging… partly because I have been busy, but that’s not a good excuse because we are busy all the time anyway and we make time for stuff that matters to us. I have just been distracted by other happenings in my life. I have actually not been cooking, and there haven’t [...]
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I went to bed reading Nigella Lawson’s latest book, Nigella’s Kitchen, and dreaming about her Greek Lamb with Potatoes and Lemon. But we all woke up with scratchy throats, hacking coughs, aching bones, woozy heads. And when my imp is lying limply on the sofa instead of jumping up and down on her new trampoline, [...]
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If you grew up in a typical Chinese family, your grandparents would have probably told you that story of how they or some ancestor or the trishaw peddler used to be so poor they could only afford to eat salted fish. The poorest of the poor wouldn’t even have that luxury. He’d dangle his salted [...]
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I visited Kuantan for the first time last week, and it was miserable the first three days as it was raining and raining. It was cloudy, and the sea was gloomy, but it still didn’t stop us from going to the beach. But on the last day that we were there, the sun came out [...]
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