Posts under ‘Ingredients’

One of the delicacies in Chinese cooking are the range of dried seafoods that can either be cooked on its own or to enhance the flavours of the dish it is used in. Below are some of the cheaper ones. The more expensive ones are things like dried scallops, dried oysters, dried sharksfin, [...]

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Bailing mushroom is available in cans. Sometimes, you may also find the fresh ones in the market but this is rare. I like to store a can or two of Rex brand bailing mushroom because they are good to add to soups as it is very chewy and is almost like meats. [...]

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Out of curiousity and for the sake of blogging, I bought these fresh ling zhi. It looks pretty and a good conversation topic. However, now I wonder how it tastes like? I am going to make soup with pork ribs but wonder if the soup is going to be bitter? I [...]

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Someone asked me to recommend a few stuffs that they can order online from Cooking Island. Since it is going to be an online purchase, then, I will find things that are not perishable.
Here are my five favourites :
1) Cream cracker pre-mix - Any idiots can bake now. No oven involved, no mixer [...]

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I bought one vanilla pod from Cooking Island sometime back but never got into the mood to bake and had been hiding it in my fridge. I don’t want my hubby to see it ‘cos I know he would faint to see tiny bean like that costs almost RM20.
Today, I decided to try out [...]

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