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Stir Fry Pasta or Warm Pasta Salad

2008-07-23T20:41:00.000-07:00

If you have some mushroom and vegetables leftovers, you can boil some pasta the next day, and toss them into a warm pasta salad sans the cheese or other garnishes. It should be fine when the...

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Coffee and Espresso Maker, Kitchen Oven - I want good deals!

2008-07-23T19:59:00.000-07:00

I like to check out online shopping websites not just solely for the actual shopping. Online shopping websites allow me to view comparison, price breakdown and read reviews of products that I'm...

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Taiwan pineapple cake - 台湾凤梨酥

2008-07-23T03:29:00.001-07:00

Do you like this ? Taiwan pineapple cake - the pineapple filling is typically inside the pastry Bye bye Taiwan, I will soon be back in Singapore! Yes! Durians! Tag: pineapple cake, Taiwan eating

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Poutine - French fries comfort food

2008-07-20T23:06:00.000-07:00

Taken at IN CASA Restaurant, Taichung City, Taiwan Not your usual French fries but French fries topped with fresh cheese curds, covered with brown BBQ chicken gravy and sometimes other additional...

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Multigrain burger it's Mcdonald's

2008-07-18T05:30:00.000-07:00

What IS that?? Something good.... from McDonald's ??? Tag: burger, McDonald's, Taiwan eating

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Beef and Mushroom Pasta with Bok Choy - what?!

2008-07-17T01:34:00.000-07:00

Remember this picture? What was I planning to cook ? I hope the bok choy did not mislead you. I was planning to cook pasta. Yes. This. Beef and Oyster Mushrooms Fusili Ingredients: Carrots,...

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Carrots, tomatoes, healthy cooking oil - they belong!

2008-07-15T03:34:00.000-07:00

A Healthy Cooking event taking place at Fun and Food and I wanted to use it as a platform to reinforce a message about being Healthy AND Nutritious. I am not saying salads are not good. In fact,...

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Famous bento lunch, Alisan Taiwan

2008-07-13T19:51:00.000-07:00

Enough of bentos and convenience food? Hang on there. This is perhaps the last "bento" I'm featuring. A famous bento known as 奮起湖便當 (FengQiHu Bian Tang or FengQiHu Bento). Feng Qi Hu locates a...

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Bibimbap - Korean stonepot rice in rice cooker

2008-07-10T00:21:00.001-07:00

Grilled salmon, green peppers, spinach, egg, kimchi. What would you think of? WAAa...aIT! KIMCHI! Do I hear something...Korean? Besides one-dish pasta dishes, I have been cooking one-dish rice dishes...

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Taiwan street food - turkey rice, 火鸡肉饭

2008-07-08T01:57:00.001-07:00

A famous street food of 嘉义( Jiayi, Taiwan): 火鸡肉饭, which is Turkey Rice. I don't think it is unfamiliar or strange to you. Some of you make this dish (from the leftovers of a roasted turkey) after...

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Asia's ultimate restaurant guide - The Miele Guide

2008-07-08T00:08:00.000-07:00

Did you notice the neat-looking red button I've just put up (extreme right column on my blog) about The Miele Guide ? I'm not paid to do this. Just as The Miele Guide is NOT paid (in the form of...

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Weekends dining out - set meals, ala carte

2008-07-06T22:59:00.000-07:00

Weekends mean dining out! Is it true that set meals are more inferior compared to ala-carte selection? I've asked that before. Since set meals are quite common here, I've bring you more. Whatever...

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Ice Dumplings - savory meat dumplings cannot beat this!

2008-07-04T00:45:00.000-07:00

POINTED If you read Chinese, the words on the packaging means Ice Dumplings (冰粽, Bing Zong). While 粽子~ Zong Zi is a symbolic food or snack seen during the Chinese Dumpling Festival or Dragon Boat...

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Yellow watermelon - instant chilled desserts

2008-07-02T16:36:00.000-07:00

Forget about making cold mango desserts and chilled grass jelly, this can be a thirst quencher! A yellow watermelon has less beta carotene compared to a red one. Do you have a preference for red...

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Spicy Shrimp Prawn Pasta - using Singapore Chili Crab gravy premix

2008-06-30T18:41:00.000-07:00

Most of you visually devoured the crab “crab” gravy, just like I do. With the remaining gravy, it became pasta sauce for the following day. Singapore Chili Crab's gravy is really good with...

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Sashimi and Japanese food - all you can eat

2008-06-29T01:13:00.000-07:00

Since it is all-you-can-eat, I reckon attacking the sashimi makes the money worth! I do not take sashimi in the past but when you land yourself in fresh salmon sashimi for once, you will learn to...

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Brain food to make you Brighter

2008-06-27T19:23:00.000-07:00

Are You Bright ? I give you one minute to test yourself. Tell me how many can you answer out of the four. Will post the answers some time later. OK....answers! Happy Weekend! :D

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Spring onions, green onions, scallions - NOT all the same

2008-06-26T00:01:00.000-07:00

A week after I returned from California, I read about the heat wave in NorCal (started late last, early this week)...the HEAT in Sunnyvale, California was as high as 106F (40degC!!!). Talking about...

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Sashimi with yellow roe - can anyone tell me what is it ?

2008-06-25T00:14:00.000-07:00

This sashimi with lots of yellow roe chunks. I don't know what fish variety is this. Can anyone tell me? Is it kazuno - a winter specialty ? I may be wrong. And I ate an unknown sashimi!!! :O Tag:...

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Beef noodles - different but all nice

2008-06-24T00:06:00.000-07:00

The many kinds of beef noodles I've came across. Which one do you like ? In Taiwan: Beef noodle in light broth In Hong Kong: the dry and soup version of braised beef brisket noodle The...

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Rice set, bento, convenience food - I'm guilty

2008-06-22T21:32:00.000-07:00

60NT per box (~USD2) To those who may be familiar with the Japanese bentos, 便當 (pronounced Bian Dang) is the Taiwanese variations of Chinese take-outs literally meaning convenience-meal and quite...

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Mushrooms Beef Pasta with Spicy Sauce - wonders of Asian curry powder

2008-06-19T00:18:00.000-07:00

Tomatoes + onions + ground beef - the most basic of my homemade pasta meat sauce. For extra perks, I usually add mushrooms -white or brown crimini mushrooms. Or when I'm crazy, oyster mushrooms and...

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Cold mango desserts on a hot day

2008-06-17T16:10:00.000-07:00

A virtual quencher during the hot summer days...to make you feel cool at heart :D Mango ice-cream, mango cubes and mini glutinous balls in cold mango juice - perfect dessert! A similar above,...

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Dim sum at Hong Kong Kitchen in Taiwan - how good can it be

2008-06-16T23:47:00.000-07:00

In search for dim sum that satisfies my cravings... I'm not really sure about the rest of Asia, but when you are a Hong Kong local, or Singaporean, maybe Malaysian, Indonesian, or Vietnamese and...

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Posting, blogging, cooking - will a timesheet help?

2008-06-16T23:21:00.000-07:00

20% of my time visiting fellow foodies' blogs; 30% of my time to be spent on writing; 50% of my time dedicated to cooking and experimenting new recipes. Well, if only I could track my personal time...

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