Healthy Meal – Chinese Popiah (Fresh Spring Roll) with Vietnamese Rice Paper

Popiah (fresh spring roll) is a common folks cuisine found in South East Asia.  This is particularly popular in China, Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore.  Popiah is usually made of different vegetables and meat. Different place made it differently.  Spring rolls also has the fresh version or fried version. At home, when I want to … Read more

Quick Fix Meal – Japanese Pork Bone Ramen Noodle Soup (豚骨汤)

I have been quite sick and tired of cooking the same food every weekend.  This weekend, I decided to be a bit more adventurous to try something different.  I have this craving to eat Japanese Pork Bone Ramen Noodle Soup.  I ate this noodle sometime back, and I missed the heart warming taste …. So this … Read more

Crispy Pan-fried Vegetarian Tofu Puff

Crispy Pan-fried Vegetarian Tofu Puff (or commonly known as Tau Pok)This is one of my favorite dish at home.  I heard this is an Indonesian dish, it is super-easy to made and super-delicious to me.  It is crispy on the outside with crunchy vegetables on the inside. This dish should be deep fried but on a … Read more

Stir fry Shark Fin Melon

   Shark Fin Melon is an interesting vegetable.  From afar, the melon may be mistaken for water melon, they have about the same size, both are green and has patterns on their outer skin.  Except that the patterns are slightly distinguishable for both melons.  Wiki classified this melon as Cucurbita ficifolia, a species of squash, grown for its … Read more

Imitation Shark Fins Soup (with SharkFin Melon)

I happened to see Shark Fins Melon in the supermarket the other day, I remembered my Mum telling me that SharkFin Melon can be used to cook imitation Shark Fins Soup.  I am curious about this vegetable, so I decided to buy one quarter piece of the Whole Melon home for experiment. Chicken soup (chicken … Read more

Nutritious Tuna Fried (Brown) Rice

Below is somewhat my normal daily meal now, albeit that I will change the vegetables and meat/seafood for some variety.  Recently I have been eating brown rice and discarded my white rice….  I still remembered when I have gestational diabetes, I have to (I mean, forced to) see a dietitian.   This turns out to be … Read more