Hainanese chicken rice was one of those things that I had always wished to try cooking, but never got around to it. It seemed all to troublesome. Some time last month however, I decided that trouble or no trouble, I was going to make myself some homestyled Hainanese chicken rice.

I searched around for an authentic looking chicken rice recipe, and settled on the one by Amy Beh. It can be found here. I used a smallish kampung chicken as the meat is usually leaner and more tender. If you ask me, preparing the condiments was a little more troublesome than preparing the chicken and the rice. The [...]

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I absolutely adore the crabmeat squid ink pasta from Valentinos. The richness of the sauce, coupled by the sweetness of the crabmeat – simply heavenly. There are days where I actually crave for that pasta. And there was the day that I craved for it, only to find out that Valentinos was closed. Not for the day, but for the month. The only solution to ease the craving was well, to attempt to create my own crab meat linguine.

I must add here that I’ve attempted this dish before but was not satisfied with the taste. The sauce was a tad bit too watery and lacked the taste [...]

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