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Ask The Experts: Tips For Selecting The Best Fish Sauce
Fish sauce has been riding on the trend of healthy eating for its natural, umami-packed content. Here're some tips on picking the top of the crop.
Recipe: Handmade Naoshichi Noodles
These hand-cut noodles are coloured with precious saffron and lifted with a citrusy zing from naoshichi, a rare lime-like fruit from Japan.
Recipe: Ikan Assam Pedas With Dough Fritters
Veteran chef Philip Chia transforms this Peranakan classic into a party-friendly canapé.
6 Popular Plant-based Meat Alternatives From Around The World
Here are some of the innovative brands that have mushroomed up to produce plant-based alternatives to beef, pork, poultry and eggs.
Recipe: Gluten-Free Salted Chocolate Chip Cookies
Brian Reimer of Farmshop in Los Angeles shares the recipe for his store's best-selling gluten-free cookies.
Ingredient: Butterfly Pea Flower
Chase away the blues with this magical colour-changing tea and its stress-relieving antioxidant properties.
Recipe: Paella Valenciana With Socarrat
Try your hand at Manuel Berganza’s winning paella dish in Netflix’s The Final Table, which comes with the essential crunchy layer at the bottom of the pan.
Ingredient: Hawthorn
Hawthorn is your saviour whenever you have a substantial or greasy meal.
Ingredient: Snails
Rubbery, slimy snails are a delicacy in many parts of the world, as are their eggs which go by the fancy name of snail caviar.
Technique Thursdays: Aspic
The thought of jiggly savoury meat jelly might be off-putting to some, but the long process of putting together a proper aspic is part of its lingering appeal.
5 Ways To Deal With Chinese New Year Leftovers
Don’t waste food by binning them. From brewing stock from leftovers to making pineapple jam from tarts, here are five nifty ways to save those festive goodies.
How to Donate Your Excess Chinese New Year Goodies
Bought too many festive foods? Lighten your load and do a good deed by donating to those in need.
Ingredient: Australian Truffle
Although Australia has only a short history of cultivating truffles, its aromatic fungus can now be found in fine-dining restaurants all over the world.
Ask the Expert: How to Carve A Suckling Pig
Usher in the Year of the Earth Pig this Chinese New Year by chopping up your very own suckling pig.
Huat To Say During Lo Hei
Don’t know what to say at the reunion table during lo hei? Here are some tips to remember the auspicious sayings that will knock your relatives’ socks off.
Recipe: Champagne Pork Ribs
This Chinese New Year, serve up Diamond Kitchen’s celebratory take on a zichar favourite of sticky, sweet pork ribs.
5 Types Of Mandarin Oranges For Chinese New Year
Know more about the fruit that you will be exchanging during the upcoming slate of festive home visits.
Kitchen Language: What Are The Basic Knife Cuts?
Sharpen your knife skills with this handy guide to cutting terms like julienne, chiffonade and brunoise.