Chilled Soup: Those Healing Green Beans
The Chinese in Singapore are big believers in the healing properties of soups — specifically, “heaty” and “cooling” soups, which either add fire to your body or cool it down, getting just the right...
View ArticleIce Kachang: Savoring The Old
This is what inevitably happens when I get together with the Fairways Kids, a bunch of friends I’ve known since I was 11, back when my family moved into a Singapore condominium building named...
View ArticleProsperity Cakes (Fatt Gou): Ushering In A Rich Tiger Year
You will have to excuse the radio silence on this blog. Between stuffing myself with pineapple tarts and cooking up a storm in Singapore, there simply hasn’t been a spare moment since the Chinese...
View ArticleLemongrass Frozen Yogurt: The Joys of Cooking Redux
Years ago, I heard a sports writer complain about how he used to love sports — until he started writing about it. Once it became a job, he all but stopped watching games on weekends. The thing that he...
View ArticleCowgirl: A Dessert Surprise
The evening had been good — entertaining but generally uneventful. Until the question came, "Would you like dessert?" Having just devoured chicken fried chicken, mashed potatoes, chicken fajitas and...
View ArticleTaste Good: A True Thing
Years ago, as a freshman at Northwestern University, I used to trek to the computer lab after classes to log onto a Web site and stare longingly at pictures of Singaporean food that someone out in the...
View ArticleCaramel-Walnut Upside-Down Banana Cake: Doctor’s Orders
There are many perfectly lovely blogs out there that extol the virtues of healthy eating. Page after page will be filled with photos and recipes of jazzed up salads and low-calorie sweets, all nudging...
View ArticleMango-Key Lime Pie: Tropical Cool
I’ve had mangoes on my mind recently. Living with a fertile mango tree in your backyard for a month in Key West will do that to you. While I was there recently, mangoes came pelting down so frequently...
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