Easy Malaysian home cooking with air fryer and stovetop recipes, and smart shortcuts
For years, I’d been reading all kinds of tricks for making crispy chicken wings. Add baking powder lah. Double fry lah. Steam them lah. Dry them overnight in the fridge. Aiyo, so much work! After some experimenting, I stumbled upon this SIMPLE method to make the crispiest airfryer chicken wings – with a fraction of…
When these cheat Korean hotteok popped up on my feed, I suspected they would be good. I just didn’t expect them to be this good! Inspired by Instagrammer @onetable365, this shortcut version of Korean hotteok transforms one of Korea’s most beloved street snacks into something you can make at home in under 15 minutes –…
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For most of my life, I regarded tempeh as a sidekick ingredient: a few slices next to nasi lemak, maybe fried with sambal at economy rice stalls, or tossed into a simple home-style stir-fry. I liked it well enough, but I never craved it. Until this two-texture tempeh sambal changed my mind completely. While researching…
I learned to make sardine puffs using frozen roti during MCO. You know, when every other human was inventing all sorts of wild things with Kawan Food roti …. (their share price must have gone through the roof. Should have bought their stock, aiya!) To my surprise, I discovered that frozen roti is a really…
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My mum makes many wonderful soups, but this one might just be my sentimental favourite because she made it when I needed it most. I wasn’t feeling well and my appetite was very poor. Seeing my condition, she simply said, “I’ll make a soup to wake up your appetite.” I remember thinking … sure or…
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I’m currently obsessed with sambal hijau (ijo)!! This whole journey started when I had a nasi goreng kampung craving. I’ve eaten some really good ones before, but honestly, many commercial versions are just … not great. The rice is too soft. Not enough wok hei. Barely any spice paste. And don’t even get me started…
If you’ve never tasted Nam Khao, imagine a salad that crunches, crackles, and bursts with limey, savoury, slightly sweet flavours in every bite. I first learned about this Laotian dish from vegan cook Maya. She made it look soooo appetizing that naturally, I had to try making it at home. Of course, with a little…
Pad kra pow is probably my favourite Thai dish of all time. Not too hard, and one-pot meal at that, I make this quite often. But this update on the recipe is probably the best, the tastiest, most flavourful, most sedap version I’ve done so far. The recipe is inspired by my relative who is…
Mum’s fried beehoon is “very simple only.” Come to think of it, that’s her standard answer whenever I ask her for the recipe of virtually any dish she cooks. She’s telling the truth. When she describes the process to me, it DOES sound simple. Ingredient lists are typically short. The steps, few. But somehow in…
Growing up in Ipoh, I got to know claypot chicken rice at a very young age. I still remember where I ate it: a roadside stall in Hugh Low Street. The uncle and aunty would monitor multiple claypots on stoves like hawks, holding fans to control the flame and lifting the lids occasionally to check…
