Cookies are very popular during Chinese Nee Year. If you are observance, you will surely see that despite the many 'cookies competitors', pineapple cookies emerged as the most popular amongst all. Pineapple signifies 'arrival of good fortune'. With such a good omen ...
This one comes with many names, arrowhead, ngaku, ciku, chi gu.... etc., but most importantly, it makes addictive chips! The seller told me that it can be used to braise meat too, but I have yet to try. Usually, arrowhead are quite hard to comes by, but you can find ...
Bak Kwa, or commonly known as 肉干 (rougan) in Chinese is a kind of sweet jerky very popular in Singapore and Malaysia, especially during Chinese New Year. Originated from Fujian province in China, bak kwa was traditionally simply air dried as a way to preserve meat. Now, ...
I had been eyeing on a deep fryer for a while. Deep frying without having the oil spilling all over, how tempting is that! Then airfryer came into the market. Frying without submerging the food in oil, less oil = less fat = more healthy, I was even more tempted to get one! Meanwhile, ...
If you are a fan of nyonya food, you should be rather familiar with this ayam Pongteh - a salted fermented soy bean based chicken cooked with mushroom and potato. Started off with more liquid, this dish is cooked until the gravy reduced and thickened to brown color sauce, coating ...
Muffin is always the last thing on the shelves that I would choose from a bakery. Without beautiful topping like their cupcake counterpart, or fanciful filling like bread, muffins were simply 'boring'. Until one day, a colleague of mine decided to leave her job in order ...
I used to think that it would be great if I could just eat burger whole day. The idea of having a piece of meat drenched in sauce and sandwiched in between hamburger bun sounds magical to a little girl that I once used to be. Today is a day that I would like to relive my ...
'I am strong to the finich, cause I eat my spinach. I'm Popeye the sailor man...' Turns out, Popeye is right, spinach does make you stronger, and it has been proven by modern science. Researchers at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm conducted a study and found that ...
Gingy Bite is an amateur chef and an avid globetrotter who resides in the foodie nation of Singapore.
