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Top 10 Malaysian/ Singaporean Local Desserts to sweeten your day

24 August 2010

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Top 10 Malaysian/ Singaporean Local Desserts to sweeten your day

We, Malaysians and Singaporeans: we love to eat. How can we not when we are surrounded by such amazing food? You might remember my previous list: My Top 10 Singaporean/Malaysian Delights to Eat and if you don’t, I suggest you take yourself to that page right now and get really hungry. Today I’m going to [...]

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Mum’s recipes: Mee Goreng Mamak

9 August 2010

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Mum’s recipes: Mee Goreng Mamak

Here’s another gem from home. We usually have these on Sundays, not all sundays, but the special ones when mum feels like treating us. Is it authentic Mee Goreng Mamak? No, simply because getting all these amazing ingredients in the Mee Goreng Mamak you get at the actual Mamak stalls is not possible unless you pay [...]

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Breakfast from the markets: Economy Noodles 经济米粉面

3 August 2010

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Breakfast from the markets: Economy Noodles 经济米粉面

Our family tends to be rather boring when it comes to breakfast. When you are up at 4.30am, trying to get ready for work and school so that you can be out of the door by 6.30am, you tend to not want to spend ages fiddling with breakfast, and more importantly, we can’t really [...]

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Top 10 Singaporean /Malaysian Delights to Eat.

27 June 2010

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Top 10 Singaporean /Malaysian Delights to Eat.

This post isn’t actually in my blogging calendar. But I ran out of time to write up these week’s posts, and one thing happened after another (don’t you just love how busy you get on holidays?) and one week went by with the blog staying quiet. So as an apology, I’ll try to show you [...]

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Meatless Day Challenge #2: Fried Radish Cake / Chai Tao Kuey

24 May 2010

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Meatless Day Challenge #2: Fried Radish Cake / Chai Tao Kuey

Chai Tow Kuey is a Teochew cuisine that is commonly enjoyed in Malaysia and Singapore ala streetfood style. While I didn’t really grow up eating this (my parents found it too greasy), my housemate did and really likes it. So in an attempt at culinary fairness (I can’t be cooking things I like only!), [...]

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Old Town Kopitiam Mamak, Melbourne CBD

7 February 2010

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I’m never one to say no to Malaysian cuisine. Never. Unless the restaurant is a terrible one of course, but if there’s a new Malaysian restaurant in town, you can bet your socks that I’ll definitely be there to try it out. So when I heard about Old Town Kopitiam Mamak on Twitter, I was up [...]

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Straits Cafe @ Stud Road, Melbourne

29 May 2009

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As always, the hunt for good Malaysian hawker food was on. When you are so far from home, you tend to crave home-cooked food. Even if they do cost you an arm and a leg. Prowling through the net, I stumbled upon this place: Straits Cafe located in Wantina South, which is right next to Knox [...]

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