Desserts

It has been so long since Malaysia, famous for its colourful array of festivities all year round, got into the festive spirit. With Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) in the country easing up, it looks like whatever cooking skills that were picked up during the height…

Times are exciting with food. Technology has allowed for more processing, more packaging, more import and export, and allowing everyone to enjoy food in its most convenient forms. Sometimes though, this trend can be at the expense of foods made lovingly by hand being less…

The thing about Peranakan food that people love the most is how much you can taste the love that goes into it. This is the very thing that also puts people off from making Peranakan food themselves! Modern cooking culture has been reduced to instant…

Chinese New Year is just around the corner and the best part of it (or worst part, if you have diet goals) is the snacks. All too easy to give in to them, when they’re left out in the open and in every direction you…

I’ve never met someone who didn’t love Nutella. There’s also noone I’ve met who doesn’t acknowledge that it’s not the healthiest thing in the world. For those who crave the creamy hazelnut-tinged divinity on their tongue but don’t want to trouble themselves with the ‘diet…

DOUGHNUT WORRY, BE HAPPY! Now, we all love doughnuts don’t we? That satisfying feeling of biting down into a mouthful of soft, fluffiness that’s full of comfort. The doughnut we’ve created is slightly different from the conventional doughnuts you would get at any dunkin donuts…

My vegan friend Shahab came up with the word ‘Durgasm’, defining the orgasmic experience of sinking your teeth into the flesh of the perfect durian. I would have not been able to come up with a better word in my lifetime. Indeed, Durian is a…

Black sticky rice pudding, or Pulut Hitam in Bahasa, is a classic Southeast Asian comfort food and one of those things you eat as a kid without really knowing what it is. You hear the word, ‘pulut’, you think about it being something called ‘pulut’…

With Chinese New Year around the corner, feasting season is creeping in on us once more. Food made with love is most often food made with patience. One such food is Tang Yuan (or Tong Yuan). This carefully-handmade Chinese dessert signifies unity and happiness, and…

With Christmas around the corner, I figured that I present a recipe that would not only be delightful to share with loved ones after a comforting meal, but will make your kitchen smell gorgeous too! Crumble is one of the first desserts I ever learned…