This dish has been in my to-cook list for some time and I just didn’t have the urge to cook it until I saw my blogger friend KY shared his beautifully executed beef stew in his IG story. That prompted me to get all the ingredients needed and finally cooked this on last Sunday. Ingredients (Serve: 4-5) 700g beef brisket […]
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Choy Sum 菜心 in Cantonese or Cai Xin in Mandarin, literally translated as “heart of the vegetable” is a type of green leafy vegetable which can be characterized by the distinct yellow flowers which it bears. Stir fry and blanching Choy Sum (then tossed with oyster or soy sauce) are common ways to prepare this vegetable. Today I’m going to […]
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A super simple vegetable stir fry for today’s post. Water spinach or more commonly known as Kangkung (in Malay), is a type of long, leafy green vegetable with hollow stems that grows in water or damp soil. It’s name in Mandarin, Kōng Xīn Cài 空心菜 which means “hollow heart vegetable”, can very much describe the vegetable’s characteristics. Here in Malaysia, […]
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I always have sufficient supply of home grown chives from my mom because she has a few pots of chives in her garden. #blessed 🙏 Other than a simple omelet dish that I’m going to share today, I like to associate chopped chives into meat filling for my dumpling for its distinctive garlicky note. Instead a basic chives + egg […]
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I want to know how many of you know the name of this vegetable? Or have you ever seen this in markets? This is Celtuce, 莴笋 “Wo Sun”, otherwise known in English as stem lettuce, asparagus lettuce, celery lettuce, or Chinese lettuce. It is common at Chinese markets but less available elsewhere and I got to know about this vegetable […]
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