Recipe from Spoonful Chinese Cooking Instructor Cai Li With the Chinese New Year around the corner, you can find pineapple tarts just about everywhere in Singapore or Malaysia. Every bakery that churns them out is claiming that its tarts are the best. But I found out today these melt-in-mouth homemade tarts with buttery crumbly pastry…
Recipe by Spoonful Chinese Cooking Instructor Cai Li This is a traditional Cantonese dish but now becoming popular throughout China. The rice is slowly cooked in a clay pot, giving the dish a distinctive flavor. It is typically served with Cantonese-style cured pork and vegetables.
Recipe from Gold Kili Traditionally found in Chinese restaurants, red date jelly is a refreshing dessert choice for the health-conscious. With longan and goji berry arranged in a pretty flower pattern and duo coloured jelly, our simple recipe looks fancier than it is to make. Dish it out the next time you have potluck or…
Recipe from Spoonful Chinese Cooking Instructor Cai Li This gentle, sweet-sour, marvelously aromatic homemade liquor is a common flavoring for all kinds of China regional cuisines. You can find the rice wine (sometimes called Chinese Cooking Wine) in the Asian supermarkets, but the homemade version is much more delicious and it is surprisingly easy to…
– Recipe by Cai Li Blakeman, our expert culinary instructor on Chinese cuisine- This is what I call the Chinese version of dinner rolls and it can be an easy and healthy breakfast option as well. The golden yellow Chinese Steamed Bun or mán tóu, are made with fresh pumpkin.
– Recipe by Cai Li Blakeman, our expert culinary instructor on Chinese cuisine- The most popular street snack in Shanghai. These golden-bottomed buns, known as shēng jiān mán tóu in Chinese, meaning pan-fried directly without steaming, are the heftier yet equally irresistible big brother of Shanghai Xiao Long Bao.
-by Chef Linda- Can’t get enough of Peranakan cuisine? Try this simple and heart warming Nonya dish made with super food sweet potatoes, its leaves and tiger prawns! These much “neglected” sweet potatoes leaves – delicious and affordable and they pack a multitude of health benefits. It is quite similar to another local vegetable – Kang Kong (morning glory/water…
-by Chef Linda- Try your hands at Bo Bo Cha Cha – The Peranakan sweet soup that’s as colourful as a rainbow!