Hello! Back to share another okara recipe! I stumbled upon this savoury vegetarian okara pancake recipe while Googling – and it turned out to be a very simple yet delicious pancake that is perfect as a side dish with other dishes and rice. Also, unless you tell your guests, I don’t think they will be…
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Simplified Nonya Achar/Acar [Spicy Pickled Mixed Vegetables]
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Achar (or acar) is a type of pickle popular in Asian cuisine, generally made with vegetables. Different types of vegetables, usually cucumber, carrots and cabbage, are pickled in a vinegar concoction. This sourish pickle is an excellent side dish – it helps to “open up” the appetite (in Chinese we call it 开胃 kai wei) and cuts down…
Tuna Sushi Roll
After going to Korea for gimbap, let’s head to Japan for sushi! Okay, not really sushi, but sushi roll! Sushi rolls have a variety of names in Japanese – makizushi (巻き寿司, “rolled sushi”), norimaki (海苔巻き, “Nori roll”), makimono (巻物, “variety of rolls”) and futomaki (太巻, “thick, large or fat rolls”). Today I’m sharing one with the easiest…
Vietnamese Beef Pho (Beef Noodles Soup)
Pho is a popular street food in Vietnam, which is a noodle soup consisting of broth, flat rice noodles, vegetables, herbs and meat. The most common version is beef, but chicken pho is usually offered as well. I cannot remember when was the first time I tried pho or when I got hooked to this…
Sweet and Sour Pork (Gu Lou Yok / 咕噜肉)
Cai fan (菜饭), literally translated to “vegetable rice” or known as Economical Rice, is a dish where we pair a portion of steamed white rice with vegetables, meat and seafood dishes of our choice and is available in every food court or hawker centres in Singapore. Different cai fan stalls will offer different types of dishes for you…