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Recipe : Curry puff in a jiffy

I have always wanted to make curry puff because I love it so much. However, the thought of messing with the dough for the skin and the heat of deep frying them turned me off. So, this is the first time I attempted making curry puffs, using shortcuts.

I use the frozen puff pastry [...]

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Recipe : Hainanese Gulai Tumis

I know a lot of Hainanese restaurants serve this Gulai Tumis so I shall claim this as a Hainanese dish. In case you are not aware, Hainaneses are Chinese from the Hainan island in China. Hainan is near to the equator and hence, their cooking differs from the Chinese from the northern part [...]

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Recipe : Sambal sotong - with only 3 ingredients

Lyza taught me to do this sambal sotong. It is really simple and easy. If you have a blender, it is even easier. The above are all the ingredients needed and yet, with some flavourings, the dish tastes great.
What you see above are two large onions, several dried chillies which I had [...]

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Ubah gaya hidup - DIY mamak-ing

It is ridiculous how food prices escalate without reasoning. The price for chicken used to be a fixed one at RM5.90 per kilogram. Now, I heard it has increased to RM8 and our so-called minister in charge of the local market said we do not have enough poultry in Malaysia. Doh….a country [...]

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Never trust spaghetti sauce out of the can or Spaghetti Tomyam

I bought a can of Prego tin can spaghetti sauce in tomyam flavour. I was expecting some zing and at least some tomyam fragrance. The spaghetti sauce turned out real bland and tasteless. So, I decided to give it a makeover and added my own ingredients.

First I boil half a packet of [...]

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