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Quick Take: Black Forest Cake
Location: Any Save on Foods in Vancouver, BC
“Moist and fluffy, this black forest cake is one of my favourite cakes”, says the girl who tells everyone that she doesn’t desserts.
Not everyone would agree that the black forest cake purchased from a chained grocery store such as Save on Foods is irresistible. But taste is […]
Yeung Chow Fried Rice
Location: My tiny kitchen
A plate of Yeung Chow Fried Rice with the classic ingredients: BBQ pork, shrimp, peas and egg. There is so much ingredient that I can hardly see the rice.
One of the best ways to understand someone is by watching how they do a task, and I always learn a lot about […]
L’s strawberry cake
Location: My tiny kitchen
Original recipe taken from epicurious
In addition to L’s deliciously moist chocolate cake that I wrote about earlier, L also has an easy strawberry cake recipe. I’m now calling L the “cake diva” as she always has wonderful and easy-to-make cake recipes. Like the chocolate cake recipe, this strawberry cake […]
Quick Take: Some Favourite Hawker Meals in Singapore
Location: Singapore
Author: My Husband
For our friend headed to Singapore soon, here’s the post I promised – a small sampling of our favourite hawker dishes. Since we don’t live in Singapore, I don’t know the locations of the “famous” hawker stalls that sell these dishes, so perhaps some of our Singaporean readers (few though you […]
Hairy Crabs (大閘蟹)
Location: Superstar Seafood Restaurant (鴻星),
Unit 1005, Times Square (時代商場) in Tung Loi Wan,
Hong Kong
Superstar Restaurants
Author: My Husband
As a follow up to the post on Lei Garden in Singapore, I thought it might be interesting to delve a little deeper into the delicacy that is the little crustacean also known as the Shanghai Hairy Crab.
These crabs […]
Lei Garden @ Orchard Plaza in Singapore
Location: Lei Garden
#03-00 Orchard Plaza,
321 Orchard Road,
Singapore 238866
(65) 6734 3988
Author: My Husband
The last time Christina and I were in Singapore, we were invited to a dim sum lunch hosted by a prominent businessman. The timing was great – it was the day after we got off the plane, the venue was one of Singapore’s […]



