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Dining Out 4 minutes

Three Kitchens, Three Culinary Styles

It takes time, experience and finesse to present an ingredient to the customer as a dish. To transform that ingredient to different tastes, textures and appereances through various cooking methods, and to create layered flavors.

People 3 minutes

The Knife Techniques and Spirituality of Seiji Yamamoto, Chef of RyuGin, a Three-Star Michelin Restaurant

Knife techniques can change the flavour of food. What is the essence of this delicate skill when it is honed to its finest edge?

Dining In 1 minute

Technique Thursday: What Is Emulsification?

What you need to know about the technique for making the creamiest, silkiest sauces and dressings.

Dining In 2 minutes

Ask The Expert: Swedish Cooking Techniques

Tristin Farmer, executive chef of Restaurant Zén, the Singapore outpost of three-Michelin-starred Frantzén in Sweden, highlights the Swedish influences in his cuisine.

Dining In 2 minutes

How to Perfectly Cook a Suckling Pig at Home

Lord Stanley’s Rupert Blease gives us all the info.

Dining In 1 minute

Kitchen Language: What Are The Basic Knife Cuts?

Sharpen your knife skills with this handy guide to cutting terms like julienne, chiffonade and brunoise.

Dining In 1 minute

Kitchen Language: Know Your Knife Cuts

Sharpen your knife skills with this handy guide to cutting terms like julienne, chiffonade and brunoise.

Features 4 minutes

What Is Cryoconcentration?

A look at the technique used to reduce liquids without heat.

Features 1 minute

Kitchen Language: What Is a Quenelle? (Video)

Hilton Singapore’s new executive pastry chef Cindy Khoo demonstrates this deceptively simple technique that elevates any plate to fine-dining standard.

Dining In 1 minute

Kitchen Language: What Is A Quenelle?

Hilton’s new executive pastry chef Cindy Khoo demonstrates this deceptively simple technique that elevates any plate to fine-dining standard.

Dining In 2 minutes

Technique Thursday: 6 Tips For A Great Roast

Executive chef Ian Hioe of The Carvery dispenses advice for perfect meat every time.

Dining In 1 minute

Kitchen Language: What Is Dum Pukht?

This traditional Indian slow-cooking technique allows the dish to breathe and seals in all the flavours.

Dining In 1 minute

Kitchen Language: What Does En Vessie Mean?

In this French cooking technique, wrapping meat "in bladder" before poaching ensures a moist dish that is infused with flavour.

Dining In 2 minutes

Pro Tips On Chopping Up A Whole Cooked Chicken

Besides family and friends, chicken is probably the next most important thing in a festive Chinese dinner. Celebrity Cuisine’s executive chef Cheng Kam Fu shared with us the know-hows of chopping up a cooked whole chicken.

Dining In 1 minute

Turn Your Kitchen Scraps Into Flavourful Powders

Zafferano’s new head chef shows how you can repurpose food waste into flavour-packed powders for cooking, marinating and plating.

Dining In 1 minute

Cold Brew Tea’s Time Has Come

Making a refreshing drink doesn’t get any simpler than adding cold water to tea leaves, and it’s all the rage at the moment.

Features 3 minutes

The Beauty Of Basmati

Consider using more of this wholesome, fragrant and surprisingly versatile rice in your everyday cooking.

Dining In 1 minute

The 5 Mother Sauces of French Cuisine

These five sauces are integral to French cuisine.