January 16th, 2008 | Random | 23 Comments
Do you know wolfberries/goji berries or 枸杞 in Chinese? Have you cooked anything with them?
Lately, dried wolfberries/goji berries have become my favorite ingredient-du-jour. I add them to my savory soup and stew, braised claypot dishes, and Bak Kut Teh (pork bone tea soup).
Highly renowned in Chinese cuisine as an ingredient with great healing powers (improving eyesight and immune system), nutrient richness, and antioxidant qualities (meaning you need to stock them up in piles to remain forever young!), wolfberries/goji berries lend a nice sweet (甘味) flavor to dishes, especially to pork and poultry…
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Thanks to the great news from my fellow Malaysian blogger Mandy at Fresh from the Oven, my satay jellyfish entry won one of the 3 special host awards of DMBLGiT Dec 2007 hosted by Food and Photography.
Thanks to Food and Photography for selecting me as one of the winners and congrats to all who won this monthly photography contest. To…
My blog sister Jaden of Steamy Kitchen shared the good news with me late last night and I am still on cloud nine…
20 of my pictures made it to TasteSpotting 100 of 2007–the most popular delicious links on Tastespotting in 2007. 20 out of 100, that’s a whopping 20%!
WOW!!
I am speechless, but thank you so much Tastespotting.
To see the original…
May your holidays be filled with love, joy, happiness, and lots of delicious foods! :)
XOXO,
Rasa Malaysia
Favorite childhood junk food = satay jellyfish.
Ingredients: jellyfish, salt, vegetable, oil, starch, chili.
Method of preparation: Eat them as is, or–most deliciously–lightly grill them over charcoal fire, or in the absence of it, over your gas stove…
I spent two wonderful nights at Rasa Sayang Resort and Spa in Penang. I can’t wait to tell you all about it, but for now, I wanted to share this cookbook with you.
“Essence of Shangri-La Living. Dining” is easily one of the best and most beautiful Chinese cookbooks I have ever come across. This book is a collaboration of the…
Chez Pim wrote this on her Blog Day 2007 post:
“…some bloggers clearly should be publishing magazines and not blogs” and Rasa Malaysia is one of them!
Then, Apartment Therapy included my Baked Lobster with Cheese picture on their slinks–n. (slingks) Surreptitious web links to other good sites.
And then, Guardian UK made me one of their favorite blogs (there are only 5…
