Hey hobbits out there, doncha just love, love, love mushrooms?  Then this is the dish for you!  Meaty mushrooms marinated in spicy mala sauce and a splash of numbing sichuan pepper oil, sprinkled with aromatics and then chilled to perfection.  This Mala Spicy Chilled King Oyster Mushroom Salad 麻辣涼拌杏鮑菇 is super easy to make and absolutely shroomy-licious! Read more ..read more

Here's a favorite Chinese tonic, perfect for soothing dryness, quenching the thirsties and expelling dampness from your body.  Sugar Cane Imperatae Water Chestnut Tonic 竹蔗茅根紅蘿蔔馬蹄水 is a tonic with a longish name but it's super simple to make and delicious and healthy to drink! Read more ..read more

Here's a sweetie just in the nick of time for Valentines Day!  Recently my little girl and I have been just loving us some white chocolate, that luscious creamy deliciousness is just so sexy!   So that's what led us to make some white chocolate truffles.  Seriously, truffles are sooo easy to make and sooo super yummilicious.  Easy and delicious, my favorite food combo of all time!  And what could be better paired with white chocolate than strawberries, amirite?!  So here it is, our Strawberry Dusted White Chocolate Truffle is totally something to fall in l ..read more

I'm super excited to share this particular post with everyone!  Homemade macarons!  We love macarons so much but then who doesn't, amirite?   These dainty meringue based sandwich cookies have stolen the world's sugar encrusted heart.  So what could be better than to be able to make these at home, right?  We've previously successfully made scrumptious chocolate flavored macarons at THKC however, every time we tried to make other coloured macarons we have failed.  :( Onwards in time...and this Christmas my little girl and I decided to participate in her ..read more

This post is kinda serendipitious.  You know, happily accidental.  In my food wanderings online recently, I stumbled on this baked method of making buffalo wings by the famous Kenji Lopez at Serious Eats and got really excited by it.  Ironically, I totally didn't realize that Super Sunday, the holy grail of buffalo winging, was coming right up!  It's hard to remember that date here in HK, lol. My hubby loves buffalo wings.  Not really sure why but it's okay cuz we love them too, just not as much, haha.  We've made them many times before, baking the chicken wing ..read more

Just in time for this merry season, we present our latest Christmas cookie, our Gift Bearing Huggy Bear Cookies!  This is one of the slew of Christmas cookies we've made this year and my little girl and I think it's the cutiest of the lot!  Little animal cookies bearing wee gifts in their arms are too cool for school, doncha think dear readers? Read more ..read more

I first discovered the mysterious name 'Turkish Delight' when immersed in magical world of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, reading of poor Edmund lost in wickedly wintry Narnia and captivated by the evil White Witch, the Queen of Narnia, after one deliriously delicious bite of Turkish Delight candy. "Is it dull, Son of Adam, to drink without eating," said the Queen presently.  "What would you like best to eat?" Turkish Delight, please, your Majesty," said Edmund. The Queen let another drop fall from her bottle on to the snow, and instantly there appeared a round box ..read more

Deliriously delicious passion fruit soda!  Heady tropical scent and flavors burst out in this most refreshing concoction and it's so easy to make!  The best thing to do with passion fruit if you ask me.  And super duper easy to make it right at home! Read more ..read more

Dear readers...winter draws ever nearer.  And as the chill winds of the season sweep over us what should appear on street corners all over Asia but the wonderful street vendors that sell roasted sweet potato.  OMgosh, the aroma of that roasting sweet potato!  So good!  That hot plump sweet potato is exactly the thing to hold in your chilly hands.  Not to mention that first luscious bite of the creamy, sweet hot potato flesh.  Just the thing to warm you up and put you to rights inside and out! And if, poor darlings, you don't have a friendly neighborhood sweet po ..read more

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