By Ingredient: Vegetables

Braised Mushrooms with Broccoli Recipe; Chinese Recipes
Easy Home Cooking Recipes

Braised Mushrooms with Broccoli

I made this Braised Mushrooms with Broccoli for my friends recently and they absolutely loved it. This dish is warm, comforting, familiar and delicious. The sauce is fragrant, savoury, sweet with lovely natural umami flavours coming from the mushrooms, garlic and dried scallops. What Mushrooms can I use? You can use any dried mushrooms, such […]

Chinese Chives and Egg Omelette
Easy Home Cooking Recipes

Chinese Chives and Egg Omelette

Chinese chives and egg omelette is a simple and comforting dish that we often make at home. It’s quick, delicious, and only requires a few basic ingredients. The combination of fluffy eggs and fragrant garlic chives makes this a perfect side dish to complement any meal. Can I Substitute the Ingredients? You can substitute with […]

Classic Chinese Recipes & Malaysian Signature, Festival Recipes, Easy Home Cooking Recipes

Vegetarian Acar | 娘惹阿杂|素食|酸辣开胃小吃

Acar is spicy pickled mixed vegetables. In Malaysia, it is a popular Penang Nyonya side dish. This Acar recipe is not the authentic Penang Nyonya Acar recipe. For Penang acar, vinegar is added into the spice paste instead of assam jawa. My family’s hometown is Ipoh, Malaysia, so I’m used to acar flavours from Ipoh. […]

spring roll recipe
Easy Home Cooking Recipes

Fried Spring Roll | 春卷

Fried Spring Roll is a popular snack or appetizer in Malaysia. Spring roll is a very thin layer of pastry wrapped with meat or vegetable filling. There is also fresh spring rolls known as Popiah. Popiah in Hokkien Chinese means thin pastry. Fried spring rolls are also served in dim sum restaurants mostly with prawn […]

steam vegetarian bun
Steamed Bun Recipes

Steam Vegetable/Vegetarian Buns | 素菜包子

These Steam Vegetarian Buns are super soft and fluffy just like those in Chinese Dim Sum Restaurants! I love these vegetable buns because they are so tasty and healthy. Made these during Nine Emperor Gods Festival ” (“Gao Ong Yah” 九皇大帝/九王爷 ). This festival is mainly celebrated in Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand. This year, the Nine […]