Amateur Chef and Boozy Traveling Foodie Extraordinaire
Indian Chai Chicken Not quite my usual South East Asia style, but depending who you speak to India is still a part of APAC. As you travel around and through India you always spot tea stalls, or as more commonly known – Chai Stalls. They are everywhere, village, town or city – there they […]
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Cambodian Chicken and Pomelo Salad Recipe Cambodian Chicken and Pomelo Salad Recipe: A stolen recipe? Let’s say “adapted” from a wonderful book you should try and get your hands on, “The Best of Friends Restaurant”. Here is my version of their recipe of Cambodian chicken & pomelo salad. It’s a cracker folks. Friends is a
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Balinese Sweetcorn Soup It truly is not every day that you can say that you have eaten an amazing soup half way up a Balinese volcano. Well yes Mary and I did a few years back now. Off we went one year for a trip to Bali, which was luckily paid for by my company
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A Taste of Japan in Your Own Kitchen This is an amazing Japanese roast pork recipe that my friend Emi shared with me. Japanese roast pork, roasted with sake – you just know this is going to be good! While it’s traditionally served with a salad, I’ve put my own spin on it to make it
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Japanese Miso Soup Recipe: simple and simply the best Japanese Miso Soup Recipe: I can’t even think if my two have had this somewhere in the world before or if I did make it up. Hey, who cares my two kids wolfed this Japanese Miso Soup Recipe down, and I said it was Japanese. Enough
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My great friend Mitsuyo here in Singapore gave me a steer to have a look at this one. The word literally means “meat-potato”. Can you guess what the main ingredients are? Go on have a guess… Joking aside though, it really is wonderful. Sort of a soup – sort of a stew. Plain white rice
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Lemongrass cockles prepared in the Vietnamese way Inspiration for this next dish came from a Hanoi food experience one year Visiting just before Christmas with my family, and my mate and his son from the UK, we explored Hanoi hard from a food perspective – no stone left unturned. I had read about this place
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Beef Flank! Hmmm, sounds interesting. No, it’s not rhyming slang — so what could it be! To start, you’ll need to have made my Pho Bo to enjoy this one. Check the earlier posts on the blog for that recipe. This was a completely unexpected bonus from creating Pho Bo. It ended up as an
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Pho Bo, Vietnamese Soup Recipe Pho Bo Recipe: Pho-Kin Hell an all-time favourite food dish from anywhere in the World – believe me I have had gallons of this stuff, Pho Bo, Vietnamese Soup. Now I am going to give my own recipe, but also show you some other locations to get this damn fine
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Asian Jambalaya Recipe Yes, an Asian Jambalaya recipe. Come on folks you know me, I have created other hybrid recipes such as Laab Gai Pizza, Chicken Laksa, Asian Shepherd’s pie etc. So what’s wrong with a spin on Jambalaya using local Asian ingredients? Nothing wrong with that in my cookbook. Here is Asian Jambalaya. It’s