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My idea of a birthday celebration is blowing some candles on a birthday cake… that’s about all a disorganised and uninspired mother can manage. I just don’t get extravagant children’s birthday party, partly because I am scared of being in the same room with many kids. So yeah, I am not in contention for Mother [...]
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The best lor bak – slivers of meat lightly seasoned with five-spice powder, wrapped in bean-curd sheet and deep-fried – are usually found in home kitchens, rather than in stalls and restaurants. There is an art to marinating the meat just right, and hawkers do not really bother with using the most tender cut of [...]
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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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