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
All right I give in. After I had posted about the bergedil recipe and had a couple of friends raving about Soto Ayam (apparently Bergedil should be eaten with Soto Ayam) I kept thinking about it and finally decided to make it! So my deep dark confession is that I am not that fond of … More Indonesian Soto Ayam
I’m feeling a little proud of myself today. Who would have thought that this quintessentially carb-laden sour-starchy-noodly dish could be made low carb? Truth to tell I haven’t eaten Lor Mee for about 2 years already. This attempt is a valiant one and I like to think it was pretty successful. I think there is … More Low Carb Lor Mee (Chinese Braised Pork Noodles)
Still Feeling Peckish 