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Eight Treasures Pen Cai 八宝盆菜 (Special Chinese New Year Dish)
A seemingly complex yet deceptively easy dish to make. Pen Cai will be the quintessential Chinese New Year dish you can easily prepare and impress your loved families and friends during the auspicious reunion dinner.
Steamed Garlic Prawns with Tofu and Vermicelli (蒜蓉粉丝豆腐蒸虾)
Fresh succulent tiger prawns steamed with egg tofu, vermicelli and crispy aromatics. This is a typical Chinese dish but I make it yearly for our Chinese New Year reunion dinner.
Tomato Egg 15-Minute Stir-Fry Recipe (番茄炒蛋)
This 15-minute stir-fry tomato egg dish is all you need to make a protein-rich, quick and easy meal that can be served over rice, noodles, toast or on its own. I particularly like it with steamed plain rice with a little drizzle of chilli oil.
Muah Chee / Mochi / 麻糍 (Steamed or Fried)
Muah Chee or 麻糍 can be easily made at home. I love this pillowy soft, chewy and bouncy snack coated with peanuts and black sesame powder, especially when it’s freshly made.
Egg Tart 蛋挞 (Refined Sugar-Free)
Creamy custardy and mildly sweet egg custard in a buttery flaky melt-in-your-mouth pastry tart, handmade from scratch and baked fresh from the oven. I love to enjoy these warm egg tarts with a cup of teh-c-kosong, Singapore’s version of milk tea with no sugar. This is the perfect afternoon tea break for me.
Aiyu Jelly 爱玉冰 Taiwanese Summer Dessert
Aiyu Jelly Dessert aka 爱玉冰 or 文頭郎 or 文头雪 is a refreshing and healthy Taiwanese popular summer dessert made of natural fig seeds. No sugar is added to the dessert and I love to enjoy it with longan, honey, and a little lime juice.
Low GI Mooncake with White Bean Paste
These gluten-free, dairy-free, grain-free, refined sugar-free Low GI Mooncakes not only taste yummilicious, it’s also a much healthier version than the traditional mooncake. It’s filled with low GI white bean paste which I made very quickly within 30 minutes. This is the healthiest and fastest mooncake I’ve ever made!
Classic Cantonese Mooncake with Double Yolk Lotus Seed Paste 双黄莲蓉广式月饼
The traditional classic Cantonese Mooncake is one of the most commonly known mooncake, characterised by its glossy golden crust, and imprinted with beautiful delicate patterns. In this recipe, I used white lotus seed paste with double yolk, giving it an aromatic contrasting flavour of sweet and savoury in one pastry.
