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Yummy gold for a prosperous new year... Prosperity Coin Corn Kakiage

February 27, 2015

batter cake Chinese New Year corn deep fried fast food Japanese kakiage Singapore

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Naturally Neon Green Buckwheat "Tea"

February 25, 2015

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The Spiky Tropical Fruit Duo: Pineapple and Jackfruit Crumble

February 23, 2015

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Savoury Japan-style Cookies - Miso and Karai (or Spicy)

February 21, 2015

almond black sesame cayenne cheese chilli cookie Japanese style miso paprika parmesan pizza savoury Singapore white miso

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Blueberry Lavender Jam

February 19, 2015

blueberry frozen yoghurt jam lavender yoghurt

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Kobe Pudding KitKat

February 18, 2015

caramel caramel pudding chocolate Japan Kobe pudding white chocolate

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Buah Long Long Juice

February 17, 2015

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Saveur Art Fest - Finale

February 15, 2015

cake clove coconut concept curd French herb ice cream lavender mango meringue passion fruit pepper pineapple rhubarb sablé Singapore sorbet spice strawberry

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Saveur Art Fest Part IV - A Walk in the Forest - Mangalica Pork Belly Risotto

February 13, 2015

barley black fungus concept experience foie gras French fungus hazelnut mushroom pork pork belly risotto Singapore texture woody

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Saveur Art Fest Part III - Salmon Ikebana - A beautiful salmon confit

February 12, 2015

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Saveur Art Fest Part II - Spiced Pumpkin Velouté

February 10, 2015

appetiser bread brioche chive chive cream crockery cumin curry curry powder French pumpkin Singapore soup tumeric velouté

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Saveur Art Fest Part I - Seaweed Sabayon with Roasted Potato Dashi

February 09, 2015

butter concept creative custard dashi drink French fusion potato psychedelic sabayon seaweed Singapore value zabaione

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Chocolate-coated Caramelised Nuts by Dean & Deluca

February 08, 2015

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Indian Food Epilogue: Kulfi Pista

February 06, 2015

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Indian Street Food Part II

February 05, 2015

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Indian Street Food Part I

February 03, 2015

chaat chickpea cumin deal Indian mint murukku rice puff Singapore street food tamarind value

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Paint You Can Eat! Chocolate Paint by Janice Wong

February 01, 2015

art chocolate colour creative dulche de leche fun grape mango music orange paint passion fruit peppermint Singapore smoked strawberry unusual value video

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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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