Before we moved to Melbourne, I’ve never know that they do sell yam beans (sengkuang) here. I was pretty happy to spot some when I visited the Asian Grocer and has been buying when they are on special. Well, they don’t come cheap of course! On good days, they go for $7.99/kg but I normally [...]

*dust away all the cob webs* Hello! Gosh… it has been a long time since I update this blog! Well, life has certainly been busy  since my little girl is very mobile now… so I have to chase after her most of the time! I don’t cook many fancy dishes since I conceived as I [...]

One thing I like to do is mimic dishes that I have eaten in restaurants or stalls which I really like. More so if they are easy to cook type of dishes which do not require a host of ingredients. My uncle who lives in Ipoh (a town in the northern part of Malaysia) loves [...]

The other day we went to the old Sunshine Farlim which has been converted into a warehouse style of wet market cum hypermarket to get some stuff for the coming Lunar New Year. The place was rather quiet though it was about 5pm in the evening on a weekend. Though the conversion was less than [...]

I was asking mom why she did not cook any vegetables for me and she said I can’t take any vegetables yet until 7 days post partum. The weather was pretty unforgiving the past weeks with lots of rain which resulted in the availability and rising cost of vegetables in the market. Since mom has [...]