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Sure, the Chinese New Year meals are good – curry with gigantic prawns, roast pork, steamed chicken, soup with pig’s intestines, fish maw and abolone, mixed vegetables, lor bak (meat rolls), jiu hu char (stir-fried yam bean with cuttlefish). But what I look forward to most is kiam cai boi – which literally translates to [...]
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WHEN people go on diets, they opt for salads. But the kind of salads I eat only make me pile on more rice on my plate. I like Western salads, but I don’t make or eat them all that often. The kind of salad I make is called kerabu – it also uses raw vegetables, [...]
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WHEN my sisters and I get together, we go shopping. When my mother and her sisters are together, they cook. Last week, my two aunts were visiting, and my mother decided that they should make lor bak (meat roll) since “there are so many hands”. It’s also because I was home too, and it’s one [...]
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Everyone else’s tree branches are weighed down with clusters of mangoes in my neighbourhood, but I could only count three fruits on my tree. One was stolen; the other is too high up for me to reach and so there was only one left. Being kiasu, I plucked it last Sunday before someone else got [...]
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