Rasa Malaysia: Easy Asian Recipes

Otak-Otak

Spicy Fish Custard

Kuih Kosui

My favorite Nyonya sweetcake

Bunga Kantan

Torch Ginger Bud

Clams Recipe: Hoy Lai Ped (Spicy Clams in Thai Roasted Chili Paste)

August 19, 2009

One early morning in January when I was home in Penang, my brother, sister, nephew, our maid and I set off to a clam-digging expedition in a little island off the coast of Penang. In less than two hours, we dug two buckets full of big, fat, and succulent fresh clams, after we got both [...]

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How to make shrimp crunchy?

August 15, 2009

How do you make shrimp crunchy? More precisely, how do you make shrimp Chinese-restaurant-crunchy?
I’ve been obsessed with this subject matter for the longest time–a topic that took me a while to research. If you’ve tried dim sum or shrimp dishes in Chinese restaurants, you know exactly what I mean–shrimp so crunchy they give a mouth [...]

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Bo Luc Lac (Vietnamese Shaking Beef)

August 10, 2009

Ravenous Couple: Cooking Up Life is one of the new blogs I discovered recently. Authored by Hong and Kim, Ravenous Couple is a chronicle of the authors’ cooking and eating adventures, with an emphasis on Vietnamese cuisine. As a Vietnamese food lover, I often refer to great blogs such as White on Rice Couple [...]

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Shrimp and Chive Dumplings (韭菜虾饺)

August 8, 2009

When it comes to cooking or eating, I am very spontaneous. It’s about what comes to mind at the very moment when I am hungry–a recipe from a cookbook, a mouthwatering picture online, or a sudden craving. These shrimp and chive dumplings were a result of browsing two sinfully delicious posts: Use Real Butter’s chive [...]

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Mango Lassi Recipe

August 5, 2009

I got a box of mangoes when I hosted my recent Foodbuzz 24, 24, 24 Summer White Party. I used half to make lobster and mango salad and the other half for mango lassi–my favorite Indian beverage.
Even though I grew up in Malaysia where Indians are the third largest ethnic group, I’d never had mango [...]

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Tom Kha Gai Recipe (Thai Coconut Chicken Soup)

August 2, 2009

Tom Kha Gai–everyone’s favorite Thai coconut chicken soup–is one of the Thai recipes that I have always always wanted to make but never did. Why? Because there are plenty of good Thai restaurants in the US that serve pretty authentic Thai food.
So, it’s no surprise that this is my virgin Tom Kha Gai–my first attempt [...]

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Nyonya Food: Straits Chinese and Peranakan Recipes

Introducing Nyonya Food (nyonyafood.com)

July 31, 2009

Today, I am very happy and excited to announce the official launch of Nyonya Food at nyonyafood.com, a website that I have wanted to launch for the longest time. Nyonya food is a site that chronicles my native cuisine, the food I grew up eating–the food of my childhood. It’s also a portal about the [...]

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Grilled Fish with Banana Leaf

July 29, 2009

This is the grilled fish recipe that I am reluctant to share. Why? Because it’s so darn good and perfect.
I secretly wanted to stash my hand written Malaysian grilled fish recipe somewhere and hoping that one day, a mega chef like Jean-Georges Vongerichten would pay me $10,000 for this precious recipe. But I am a [...]

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