Nyonya Salmon Curry

After a few days in Singapore on my return from the winter in the UK I sampled some delicious local food. I ate an amazing fish head curry which was cooked in a traditional Nyonya sauce. Nyonya food takes its influences from Chinese Malay cuisine but with a real south east Asian twist. While this [...]

Palembang Chicken Curry

I’m off on holiday for a few weeks – I shall be passing through delightful Singapore for a few days. While the place itself isn’t the most memorable of destinations, the food IS! A mixture of the regions delights and takes its influences from Chinese, Malay, Thai and in this case Sumatran food. It’s amongst [...]

Hainanese Chicken

I was feeling pretty healthy a a couple of weeks ago today after swimming many lengths of a pool, the gym is right next door to my favourite Malaysian restaurant and instead of my usual weakness for Roti Canai I went for my second favourite Malaysian treat. A couple of weeks on I decided to [...]

Beef Rendang

I have another recipe for rendang here which I’d made with lamb but on looking at it again I just found it quite fussy. I ate an amazing rendang at a restaurant last night. A Betawi restaurant – Betawi being an ethnic cuisine from Indonesia – and it was absolutely amazing. It looked less complicated [...]

Malaysian Pork Kapitan

This is an alternative recipe for one of my favourite Malaysian curries. I would normally eat it with chicken, but pork works equally well so you choose. The vivid colour is so appealing – and the taste is so utterly delicious that I just can’t stop my urge to pile my bowl in a disgraceful [...]

Malaysian Spicy Squid

I do love a bit of squid, so when I happened upon this recipe in one of my many South East Asian cook books I had to make it. Malaysian food is up there as one of my favourite styles of cuisine. I eat it at least once a week. This is pretty healthy by [...]

Singapore Crispy Chicken

• Share on Facebook • Add to Del.icio.us • Digg It! I must admit, I am a bit partial to a bit of “Dirty Bird” (a nickname I use for KFC). It’s especially helpful with a hangover, and one of the only options when you’re dying on your feet – a grease fest extraordinaire. There [...]

Sambal Udang (Malaysian Prawn Curry)

• Share on Facebook • Add to Del.icio.us • Digg It! I tried these at a local and not very clean Malaysian restaurant last week and they were so nice I decided to make them at home. The results were pretty much identical to the ones I had at the filthy floored restaurant, I even [...]

Chilli Sambal

  Share on Facebook This is an essential accompanyment with many East Asian cuisines. It’s a fiery little devil and should only be used in small quantities. But don’t be too afraid, it can really lift the simplest of dishes from a clear soup, to spring rolls, to a fried rice or noodle dish and [...]

Chicken Kapitan

Share on Facebook This is another awesome Malaysian curry. It’s not as fiery as the others, but the addition of all that lemon grass makes it beautifully fragrant. RECIPE: