This is a blog post on cooking sweet and sour pork at home. Sweet and sour pork is a classic Chinese dish found in restaurants and takeaways here. It has Cantonese origins using pineapple to give it a sour taste. I use canned pineapple to make this dish but it is possible to use fresh […]
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This is a blog post on making Cantonese-style mooncakes homemade in the comfort of your own home. Mooncake is also known as 月饼 (Yue bing) in Chinese. It normally serves during the mid-Autumn festival. It dates almost 3,000 years ago to this celebration of the Mooncake festival. there are many different variations of mooncake but
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This blog post is about how to sew hip yoke pockets. This pocket is also known as curved insert pockets. It also forms the commonly seen jeans pockets. The only difference is how it styled and the design of the pocket it varies slightly from one to another. It is also seen in a lot
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This is a blog post on homemade salted eggs with brine. Salted eggs are much on Asian ingredients in many recipes. In ancient times it is a method of preserving eggs longer. Now it’s used in many recipes. Of course, it is possible to be shop-bought ones. However, they do cost more than making yourself.
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This is a blog post on cendol homemade from scratch at home. Cendol is actually a name for a dessert in Malaysia and in South East Asia. Here is more information about it. It is sold by street food vendors in night markets and food courts. Also, it is added to a shaved iced dessert
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This is a blog post on growing and harvesting potatoes at home. Potatoes are a staple diet in many northern hemisphere countries. it has been grown for many years and there are many different varieties of them. It is a bit like eating rice in the tropics. Potatoes are relatively easy to grow but it
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This is a blog post on how to grow and harvest mugwort/ wormwood at home. Mugwort has many uses more common in Europe is known to make part of Absinthe liquor. The scientific name is Artemisia Absinthium. There are many other uses of mugwort as it is edible and it is used in much traditional
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