The Food Canon

Reflection What if I just focus on cooking and someone else just shoots away merrily ? I find it hard to focus on cooking and the food at the same time, if you know what I mean. It is a constant challenge. My niece Japhia was with us when I cooked a family dinner tonight. She was enjoying my 600D. As you can...

We finally come down to the recipe. I should pause to credit the recipe to my brother Clement and my sis-in-law, Mary from Ipoh. They love Assam Laksa and have taken the trouble to learn it from my Mum. Some of the beautiful pics here were taken by their daughter Japhia Wong. You can see through her lens that she is talented.  ...

Bunga Kantan: As beautiful as it can get In the first post, I have detailed out how to prepare the kembung fish broth. I hope you are not put off by the work involved. Just get into it and it will be intuitive after a few tries. But you (and your family & friends) will be rewarded with a spectacular dish. We continue...

How do you even begin to describe the experience of eating Assam Laksa? Imagine a fish kembung broth meticulously prepared. Then you add spices like chili, the complex and fruity ginger flower (torch bud), lots of sour tamarind (assam), assam keping (dried tamarind skins), blue ginger (lengkuas, galangal), shallots, laksa leaves and "funky" belachan (dried shrimp paste,and 'funky' was the word an Australian chef...

Good morning. It is Ipoh time again as my brother drove down south this week. And he brought along some fresh "Kampung" eggs. I suppose you can call them free range eggs as this "village" chicken roams about and eats off the ground. ...

Chinese New Year is coming. I know the year has not ended yet and there is Christmas before we get there. But let me alert you again,  CNY is round the corner. Very soon after you put down the carolling sheets, clean up the mess which your children will make at their Christmas party or finish the NY countdown, it will be ang...