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Throwback to Chendol Softee

October 07, 2015

attap chee coconut crisp gula melaka ice cream Korean palm seed pandan rice puff Singapore Singaporean soft cream

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White Choc PB

October 04, 2015

cocoa butter peanut butter United States vanilla white chocolate

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Scallop & Oyster Hors d'Oeuvre

October 01, 2015

appetiser hors d'oeuvres oyster raw scallop Singapore

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Maple & Malt

September 28, 2015

biscuit Canada cookie cream maple maple syrup

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Japanese Mantou

September 25, 2015

green tea Japanese mantou matcha murasaki-imo pau purple sweet potato red bean Singapore steamed bun value

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Seasonal Japanese Fishes - Shirasu, Nodoguro or Blackthroat, 2 styles of Aji Mackerel and Unagi

September 22, 2015

aji anchovy appreciation blackthroat seaperch fish ginger ginger flower gobo horse mackeral Japanese nodoguro pickle rosy seabass sampling sashimi shirasu Singapore spring onion unagi yuzu

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The Cheese Diary - Appellation d'Origine Contrôlée Certification

September 19, 2015

Appellation d'Origine Contrôlée appreciation brie Brie de Meaux cheese France French historical Pont-l'Évêque sampling Singapore

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Durian and Chestnut Mooncake - Doubling the "Heat"

September 16, 2015

chestnut Chinese durian mooncake snow skin

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Earl Grey and Pandan Gula Melaka - Coming Full Circle with More Mooncakes...

September 13, 2015

Chinese earl grey gula melaka learning lotus mooncake pandan Singapore

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The Revived Cheese Diary - Loire Valley Offerings

September 11, 2015

appreciation boucheron cheese France French madrigal sampling

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Mooncake Month!!! Red Bean with Tangerine

September 08, 2015

Chinese mooncake red bean Singapore tangerine value

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Chicken You Can Eat Whole, Bones and All!

September 05, 2015

chicken deep fried Indonesian pressure cooked salted egg sauce Singapore soft bone

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Recycling Chempedak Seeds as Food

September 02, 2015

chempedak DIY fruit seed Singapore Southeast Asian unusual

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White Chocolate Nori Ice Cream

August 30, 2015

almond ice cream nori salt salty seaweed Singapore white chocolate

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Polvoron - The European Version of Chinese Cookies

August 27, 2015

cashew coffee cookie cookies and cream European glutinous rice milk peanut Phillipines pinipig powder purple yam Spanish ube yam

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Nutella Hot Chocolate!

August 24, 2015

ambience art chocolate drink hazelnut hot chocolate Nutella Singapore

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Matcha Kinako Honey Toast

August 21, 2015

Bangkok bread DIY honey Japanese style kinako matcha spread Thailand toast United States

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Ruskology 204 - Matcha Bread Rusk

August 18, 2015

Bangkok bread Japanese style matcha rusk Thailand

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Herbal... Ice Cream? Ginseng Soft Serve from Milk Cow

August 15, 2015

almond ginseng herb ice cream Korean milk Singapore syrup unusual

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A Unique Crumble: Pineapple with Lemongrass

August 13, 2015

beef caper chip compote crumble egg foie gras French fruit ice cream jelly lemongrass mint pineapple raw Singapore steak tartare

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Moscato Soursop Cream Cake

August 11, 2015

cake cream fruit liquor moscato Singapore soursop

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"MAD Milk" - Cold-Pressed Macadamia, Almond and Date Nut Milk!

August 09, 2015

almond cold-pressed date drink macadamia milk Singapore

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Preserved Rosella Snack

August 06, 2015

dried flower fruit preserved rosella Singapore unusual

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Tandoori Salad

August 04, 2015

chicken colour fusion Indian salad Singapore tandoori

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Chendol Panna Cotta

August 02, 2015

chendol coconut milk gula melaka pandan panna cotta pudding red bean Singapore Singaporean

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The Chocolate-Brownie Crossovers - Henri Charpentier's Assorted Pastries and Quolofune's Novotile

brownie chocolate dark chocolate French hazelnut Japanese style praline Singapore white chocolate

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Sweet Potato Soy Cake made with Okara Soy Pulp

bar black sesame cake Japan okara satsuma-imo shortening soy soy pulp sweet potato yellow sweet potato

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Blueberry White Choc Mochi from Johan Bakery

blueberry colour mochi Singapore white chocolate

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Red Bean Bread Stick from BreadTalk

bread griddle pancake pastry red bean roti prata sesame Singapore value

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Marron Pie

chestnut Japanese style pastry pie Singapore

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Layers of Hari Raya Goodness

cake chocolate colour cookies and cream dark chocolate fudge Indonesian kueh lapis layer Malay milk chocolate season Singapore strawberry

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A Japanese Take on Chilli Crab - Chilli Crab Croissant by St Marc Cafe

chilli crab croissant fusion Japanese style pastry Singapore Singaporean

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McPisang - Fried Banana Pie by McDonald's

banana deep fried fast food pie Singapore

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Chicken Cheese Porridge

biscuit broccoli cheese chicken Korean porridge rice Singapore

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Apple Baumkuchen by Juchheim - Multi-Layered Tree Cake within another Cake

almond powder apple auspicious baumkuchen cake cinnamon Japan lemon lemon juice peach wine

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A Flaky Trail Mix - Banana Chocolate Croquant by Johan Paris Bakery

banana chip crisp croquant crunch dark chocolate pie pastry Singapore

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Vietnamese Roasted Cashews

cashew nut roasted Singapore skin Vietnam

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Peanut Tofu (or perhaps more precisely "peanut-fu"...)

ginger Japanese Okinawan peanut pudding Singapore soy sauce tofu unusual

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Pandan & Pistachio Revisited

coconut cookie egg kaya pandan pistachio Singapore Singaporean value

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Popcorn Roti Jala

batter bite-sized chilli cumin Malay mutton popcorn roti jala shallot Singapore tumeric

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Veggie Ice Cream! Purple Sweet Potato

ice cream Japanese murasaki-imo natural ponkan purple sweet potato Singapore

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Little Butter Latte by Luckin Coffee

The title of this latte had me curious so I had to try. Butter and coffee is a combination I tried as ice cream once, and wished there was more of. But the name of Little Butter Latte is apparently a branding collaboration between Luckin Coffee and the Butterbear Cafe in Thailand which has as a mascot called Butterbear ( Nong Mee Noei in Thai). The mascot went viral sometime back in Thailand and the region, getting turned into Line stickers and so on. As you can see from the shop signboard, it's super cute.

Buah Long Long Juice

The name was bewildering enough for me that I didn't need to think of any creative twist for this post's title... I'd never have guessed that there'd be a fruit named "buah long long"... but well, yes, it does exist. The official name is Spondias dulcis , and buah long long is how the Singaporean Chinese know it. It's known as kedondong in Indonesia, pomme cythere in Trinidad & Tobago and some other countries, June plum in Bermuda and Jamaica, juplon in Costa Rica, golden apple in Barbados and Guyana, jobo indio in Venezuela, cajá-manga and cajarana in Brazil (see, they couldn't even decide on one name in the same country), amra in Malaysia, and quả cóc in Vietnam. That's a mind-boggling list of names if I've ever seen one. What's more amazing is that its juice is being sold by a rather common food stall. We found this at a branch of the food stall chain 1983 @ JEM food court, Singapore. Pardon the menu image for being pixelated as i...

What's behind the Amy Yip Pau name? How is Amy Yip related to this Chinese steamed bun?

So this is an Amy Yip Pau (葉子楣大包) . Why is it called that? Basically, it is a reference to this actress formerly famous for her F-cup feminine assets, and the pau is trying to match that not just in size, but also in shape. For older people familiar with Western pop culture, it's like a bakery selling a Dolly Parton Bun. I don't know if that helps to whet or lose one's appetite. Maybe it depends on the gender. This was from Nam Kee @ Turf Club City, Singapore. Check out the size of that thing compared to my hand! It's around 5 inches in diameter I think.

Chinese Tea Cookies

No, I don't mean cookies that Chinese have as they drink tea... I literally mean Chinese tea-flavoured cookies. I saw online that Kee Wah had these Chinese tea cookies, and so got someone I know to buy it back from Hong Kong... no regrets at all! For some reason, everything about them strikes me as Chinese as opposed to, say, American. They are thin, smooth, perfectly circular, perfectly tapering edges, and not very sweet... like smooth Chinese lacquer or jade accessories. (Whereas American cookies tend to be thick, rough and rocky-looking, hand-rolled in unevenness, and really sweet.) They came in four flavours - black tea, oolong tea, jasmine tea and green tea (the fragrant Chinese version). All the flavours were really fragrant, really like drinking a well-brewed and high quality bubble tea where you can savour the differences in each type of tea leaf. The cookies were all very crispy and crunchy, although in a finer, more delicate way than the hearty crunch of Amer...

Smoked Duck Kueh Pie Tee

So we got inspired by the smoked duck prata wrap and respawned it in a deep fried cracker cup... no idea what you call it in English, but in Singapore we call them kueh pie tee. It's basically wheat batter, deep fried in these cup shapes. Most people just buy them off the shelves nowadays. Each cup's pretty small - about 1.5 inches tall. So after adding the other ingredients, you can pretty much pop the whole thing into your mouth. We normally put Peranakan stewed shredded turnip mix in first, followed by Asian salad veggies like cucumber and fresh coriander leaves, boiled shelled prawn and garlic chilli sauce inside these cups. This time, we used these ingredients:

Tie Guan Yin Sun Cake

It's a new year, and I thought I would try to pick up with new posts again, but lowering the barrier this time by not expecting myself to type so much for each post. I think from now on I will stick to simple descriptions as far as possible, so I won't feel like it's a burden to post. Today, I'm featuring the first in a series of interestingly-flavoured sun cakes by Ru Yi Tang (如邑堂) in Taiwan. And I guess them being called sun cakes vaguely relates to the theme of the new year, as the sunrise signals a new beginning. I ordered a box of 5 flavours - original, tie guan yin (a type of processed oolong tea), rose, honey and cheese.

Marron Pie

I got this from Dulcet & Studio @ Liang Court, Singapore, a French-styled Japanese patisserie and cafe. I've been wanting to try their sweet potato cake (a creamy, layered sponge version, like a strawberry shortcake), but as they are tellingly very popular and I usually only managed to visit in the evenings, they have always been sold out. So I settled for the marron (chestnut) pie this time around. It is basically a typical Western buttery pie pastry wrapping a Japanese sweetened (or candied) chestnut filling.

Polvoron - The European Version of Chinese Cookies

Someone recently bought back this box of polvoron from the Philippines. It's a soft and very crumble Spanish shortbread made of flour, sugar, milk and nuts... and since this is from the Philippines, shortening of course. =P The Philippines adopted it as a part of their culture, apparently, because they were a colony of Spain. This box came with a giddying number of interesting assorted flavours - original, cashew, peanut, coffee, cookies and cream, ube (purple yam), and pinipig (immature grains of glutinous rice pounded until flat and toasted, or rice crispies). The flavours had me gleefully excited... I had tried ube-flavoured desserts in the Philippines, but not in a baked product. Also, I had never heard of pinipig before this.

Toffee Hazelnut Oat Latte by Luckin Coffee

I thought this Toffee Hazelnut Oat Latte was another interesting drink by Luckin for the festive season. Starbucks has its usually similarly named Toffee Nut Latte, but I thought the oat milk replacement was interesting as oat milk tends to have a nuttier quality as it is, so I was curious to try how it was with toffee and hazelnut.

Okinawan Sweet Potato Tart

This sweet potato tart ( beni-imo taruto /tart) was a marvelous mouthful to savour. Although the pastry was somewhat soft (despite the silicon gel pack), that was easily solved by reheating it in the oven. After reheating, the pastry had a nice buttery fragrance, and the sweet potato paste was warm, smooth and flavourful. An absolute delight, and not unaffordable – about ¥750 all in for a box of 6. I bought this from a random gifts and snack shop in Osaka, particularly drawn by the fact that it was made only with butter, not margarine. But apparently it is an Okinawan specialty, so perhaps it was flown in to Osaka, and it may not be easy to find outside of Okinawa.

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