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Feb 28

Salt Yard (Spanish-Italian), London Restaurant Review

Reviewed by The Wild BoarDespite various positive reviews from the bloggerati, Salt Yard has been sitting on my to-eat list for nearly a year now; so when I had cravings for Spanish tapas this was the first place I thought of.Located on Goodge Street (read full article)

food photography, italian, London, Restaurant Review, SPANISH

Feb 27

Chinese Dried BBQ Pork - Bak Kwa, Long Yuk, Yuk Gon 肉干...

When I first came to the UK, the only food stuff I brought over was a box of instant noodles - Maggi and Indomie mi goreng to be specific - good stuff! After half a year of minty rice and oodles of potatoes at the boarding school, I brought over a ri (read full article)

Asian, baked, chinese, food photography, Malaysian, Pork, recipe, savoury, snack

Feb 25

Mee Rebus for Rasa Malaysia

My first guest post!!! When Bee asked me to write a guest post for her Rasa Malaysia, I was thrilled! She's like a star in the food blogosphere and her gorgeous pictures always make my mouth water, not to mention - homesick. Bee is an awesome cook, d (read full article)

Asian, food photography, Malaysian, noodle, recipe, Seafood

Feb 23

Soseki (Japanese), London Restaurant Review

Reviewed by The Wild Boar We love eating Japanese food, although I came to the cuisine late, only eating my first raw fish at the age of 18 or so. Nowadays whenever I see non-Japanese kids eating good Japanese food I feel really envious of them. In (read full article)

Asian, food photography, japanese, London, Restaurant Review

Feb 22

Valentine's Day Dinner Dessert - Strawberries & Creme Pattissiere

To wrap things up, I served strawbrries with creme patissiere and crushed meringue kisses that I made just before Valentine's day.This is really simple to make. You can prepare the creme and strawberries the day before, assemble everything on the d (read full article)

Dessert, egg, food photography, recipe, Sweet

Feb 21

Valentine's Day Dinner Main - Roast Pork Belly on Pasta with Mustard Seed Sauce, Momofuku Style

Momofuku is everywhere on the food blogosphere. It is essentially a group of restaurants based in the East Village of NYC. I personally have to tried at any of the restaurants, but I am dying to. NYC is too far but amazon is just a click away, so I g (read full article)

food photography, Meat, noodle, Pasta, Pork, recipe, roast, savoury

Feb 19

Valentine's Day Dinner Starter - Crispy Prawns with Creamy Garlic & Saffron Sauce

Some may say Valentine's Day is one big con, a waste of time and money. I say to them "Whatever, you sour grape!". So how was your Valentine's Day? I hope you had a good one =) We usually avoid going out on this day as the restaurants are usually pac (read full article)

food photography, recipe, savoury, Seafood

Feb 17

Dim Sum @ Phoenix Palace, London [Restaurant Review]

Reviewed by The Wild BoarAfter Kang’s three consecutive blog posts on dim sum, I had severe cravings to get some myself and promptly arranged to get some the next available weekend. As Mr Noodles has been consistently singing the praises of Phoenix (read full article)

Asian, chinese, food photography, London, Restaurant Review

Feb 14

Daring Cooks - Mezze

The 2010 February Daring Cooks challenge was hosted by Michele of Veggie Num Nums. Michele chose to challenge everyone to make mezze based on various recipes from Claudia Roden, Jeffrey Alford and Naomi Dugid. The idea of mezze is like the Middle Eas (read full article)

bread, food photography, recipe, savoury

Feb 13

Pineapple Rolls

These cookies are a must-have during Chinese New Year! Firstly, they are auspicious cookies because pineapples in Chinese Hokkien dialect is call 'Ong Lai' and the 'Ong' means 'Prosperity', 'Lai' means 'come. In Cantonese 'Wong Lai', the 'Wong' is 'y (read full article)

Asian, baked, cookie, Dessert, food photography, recipe, Sweet

Feb 11

Alain Ducasse at The Dorchester***

Reviewed by The Wild BoarWarning: long review ahead.Almost exactly a year ago, we went to The Square** for the PigPig’s (excellent) birthday dinner. This time, we went one further and plumped for the newest three Michelin starred restaurant in the (read full article)

food photography, french, London, Michelin Star, recipe, Restaurant Review

Feb 10

When Green Tea Meets Butter Cookies

This is my 2nd favourite Chinese New Year cookie. First is always pineapple tarts of course (will be posting that recipe soon too). These babies are so sinfully buttery, they are crisp on the outside but tender on the inside...so good. Made some w (read full article)

Asian, baked, chinese, cookie, Dessert, food photography, recipe, Sweet

Feb 08

Baby Meringues...and a 'Married Life' Apron!

So...someone asked me what I did with 20 egg whites after making the cake with 20 egg yolks. Most of them are still in the freezer to be honest. I've used a bit for cookie glaze and some of it for... Meringues! I really didn't know what to do with (read full article)

baked, Dessert, egg, food photography, Product Review, recipe, Sweet

Feb 06

Chinese New Year Almond Cookies

"...my favourite cookie texture is where when I hold it, it doesn't crumble in my hand that I have to be so careful with it. But when you pop it in the mouth and press it against your lelangit (a Malay word for palate), it crumbles/crushes, followed (read full article)

cookie, Dessert, food photography, recipe, Sweet

Feb 04

Taste of Malaysia at Sedap, London [Restaurant Review]

Reviewed by The Wild Boar“Sedap” is a Malay word that roughly translates into “delicious”. Now, I think it takes a lot of cojones to name your restaurant “Delicious” but I have actually eaten at their previous incarnation so I’m prepare (read full article)

Asian, food photography, London, Malaysian, Restaurant Review

Feb 03

A Not So Successful Cake with 20 Egg Yolks!

Kek Lapis or Indonesian Layer Cake is a really popular snack in Malaysia. We eat this a lot when we were young, not knowing what was in the cake then of course. It's really rich and bursting with wonderful flavours. It's been on my to-cook list for a (read full article)

baked, cake, Dessert, food photography, recipe, Sweet

Feb 01

Braised Beef & Tendons with Egg Noodles

My original plan was to try making Vietnamese beef pho, which was October 2009 Daring Cooks’ challenge, again. This time with more spices as I felt that something was missing the last time.But... this happened. I dreamnt about the frozen beef tend (read full article)

beef, braised, food photography, Meat, noodle, recipe

Jan 28

Hibiscus** [Restaurant Review]

Reviewed by the Wild BoarI had the day off on a Friday and the PigPig promptly arranged tickets to watch Cirque du Soleil. We then spent an hour thinking where to go for lunch prior to the show then I remembered Su Lin’s glowing recommendation of h (read full article)

food photography, french, London, Michelin Star, Restaurant Review

Jan 27

Teochew Braised Duck (Lo Ack 滷鸭)

It's not often that I cook duck as the oil it releases never fails to amaze me. Imagine skimming off 1 cup worth of oil for each duck you cook. And everytime I eat duck dishes in restaurants, I'd think to myself  'My god, I'm drinking at least 1 (read full article)

braised, Duck, food photography, Poultry, recipe, savoury

Jan 24

Roast Chicken with Glutinous Rice Stuffing

I had to try it when I saw it on Rita's blog. Her bird is just amazing - the colour and so evenly browned! Her version was an adaptation from Nookcook's recipe. Noobcook's East-Meets-West version was also tempting but I couldn't resist that gorgeous (read full article)

Chicken, food photography, grain, Poultry, recipe, Rice, roast

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