Category: Homecook

This is another recipe that you shouldn’t miss to beat the heat of recently crazily hot and hazy weather. I’ve seen fresh sea coconut on supermarket shelf two weeks continuously and I couldn’t resist and got a pack to prepare this Sea Coconut Dried Longan Drink. Let me share with you guys an interesting fact about sea coconut. The sea coconut […]

The temperature has increased significantly recently and I believe many of you experience loss of appetite during these hot days. This happens because our metabolism slows down during hot day. When our body temperature is close to the environmental temperature, so we don’t have to burn as many calories to maintain our temperature as the metabolism slows, our appetite goes down […]

Watercress soup 西洋菜汤, my mom has been preparing this soup quite frequently for us since I was a kid. It is a simple and nutritious soup that is packed with antioxidants. This soup is known to have cooling properties which is good to cool down our bodies in hot weathers. Watercress is an aquatic or semi-aquatic perennial herb which is commonly found […]

Wonton is a type of Chinese dumpling commonly found across regional styles of Chinese cuisine. Wontons are made by placing a filling (meat, seafood or vegetables) in a wrapper (a dough skin made of flour, egg, water, and salt), then seal it into the desired shape by compressing the wrapper’s edges together with the fingers. The cooking methods are vary depends on the different provinces in China including baking, boiling, frying, simmering, or steaming. […]