How many hours does the average person sleep? Given that an average a person sleeps for 8 hours in a day, that means that an average person will sleep for 229,961 hours in their lifetime or basically one third of their life. A good night’s sleep is incredibly important for your health. In fact, it’s just as important as eating healthy and exercising. There are a number of factors […]
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Located in an unlikely place at Jalan Ampang, Holiday Place Hotel to be precise (which I didn’t know about its existence until I was brought there), Sausage KL aims to offer their customers a decent range of freshly made sausages, burger patties and other homemade delights. Started as a home-based sausage maker, this brainchild of married couple, Matthew and Nova […]
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Fresh fish is best prepared in the simplest of ways of steaming to preserve its taste and flavor. Steaming fish is a long-time favourite way of cooking fish among East Asian communities. It is a healthier cooking method and it can retain the natural sweetness as well as the succulent texture of the fish. Steaming a fish sound like easy but […]
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Shredded Pork with Pickled Mustard Noodles (Zha Cai Rou Si Mian 榨菜肉丝面), a very common noodle dish that can be found in any noodles specialty restaurants. This is always one of the simplest noodle options in the menu with non-fancy topping of shredded pork and pickled mustard only. This noodles is my absolute comfort food because I’m a bit of […]
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Chinese-American chef, Martin Yan 甄文达 has said that ginger, garlic, and green onions make up the “holy trinity” of Chinese cooking. Today I’m going to talk about spring onion 葱 (also called scallion) which is probably the most universally used ingredient in Chinese cooking. Spring onions are generally used in soups, dumplings, dips, marinades, stuffing, and stir-fries. We LOVE scallions–we use them […]
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