Pigs will fly the day I stop eating bacon. Most people would be familiar by now with the latest World Health Organization recommendation to avoid processed meats because they increase the risk of cancer by 18%. The IARC working group under the WHO therefore put processed meat consumption into the same risk category as smoking. … More In Defence of Bacon
I wonder how I got through my school years. Recent conversation with kid #2 surprised me as she talked about how left out she felt when going to camp and she didn’t know who to hang out with. And this is the kid who loves camps. But given that kid #2’s personality, I shouldn’t … More Tom Yum Shirataki Noodles
I don’t usually repost recipes but I had to for this one. The last attempt at tonkotsu ramen was fraught with disasters, starting from flooding my vacuum sealer with marinade for the sous vide pork belly, then having flavour challenges as sugar substitute is actually sweeter than sugar and that made the chashu pork … More Tonkotsu Ramen Redemption
Sous vide. This year a friend (not someone who cooks but a true gadgetholic, and mainly for camera paraphernalia) bought an immersion circulator in a group buy deal, and after buying it decided to loan it to me to try it out. The truth is that I have always been tempted to get a … More Low Carb Tonkotsu Ramen
It’s the SG50 holiday! It’s Singapore’s 50th birthday and a celebration of how far this little nation has come. Over the 50 years a million things could have gone badly wrong but somehow we get to celebrate the growth and blessings this little city state nation has enjoyed despite all odds. As part of … More Oyster Mee Sua (Noodle Soup)
I have shared before that I am not terribly fond of Malay noodles like mee rebus and mee siam. However, I make an exception for dry mee siam, which I believe has Nonya or Peranakan roots. The Peranakans were Chinese immigrants who settled in the Malay archipelago in the 15th – 17th centuries, intermarrying with local Malays, … More Low Carb Dry “Mee Siam” Recipe
I grew up with food allergies. I remember distinctly breaking out in hives as a small child after eating prawns. Not unsurprisingly, both my kids developed food allergies as well in infancy. Kid#1 started out with massive hives with a tiny exposure to cow’s milk in a teeny bite of baby biscuit. Later testing … More Low Carb Hokkien Prawn Mee (Noodles)
I actually met my husband over a dead body. To this day my teenage daughter can’t quite believe the story, but the truth is not that surprising given that we were both medical students having to deal with dissection of cadavers for anatomy class. Hubs was a senior, hanging around the year 1 class, probably … More Low Carb Zha Jiang Mian (Chinese Minced Meat Noodles)
I never used to like Korean food. Growing up in Singapore we used to have Seoul Gardens which was a rather tacky all-you-can-eat BBQ which was not that appealing. Then when I did my post-doc fellowship in Columbia U, I stayed in Fort Lee, which is pretty much a little New Jersey suburb full of … More Low Carb Korean Army Stew (Budae Jigae)
The quintessential Singapore breakfast “Economic Fried Beehoon with egg, sausage and luncheon meat”. Image credit: peepor.net I woke up this morning feeling hungry. Saturdays used to be my marketing/hawker food breakfast day but that hasn’t happened for a really long time. A typical cheap and quick breakfast would be the “Economic Fried Beehoon/noodles” that usually … More Low Carb Economic Breakfast Noodles
Still Feeling Peckish 