Steamed Malaysian Sponge Cake is one of my favourite dim sum items. It’s soft, fluffy and no one can resist it when it comes out onto the table freshly steamed, fragrant and super comforting. Here’s how you can make your own version at home without the need for any fancy mixers! Despite its name, the…
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Coconut Milk Pudding Dim Sum (椰汁糕)
This year marks the first National Dim Sum Week which takes place from 30th June to July 5th 2018. If you aren’t familiar with dim sum, it refers to the little delicious food which come on plates or in steamer baskets. It poetically means ‘to touch the heart’. This week will celebrate the sheer amazingness…
Chinese Coconut Milk Pudding (椰汁糕)
**Please check out an updated version of this recipe by clicking here** One of my favourite sweet dim sum to have at yum cha is 椰汁糕 or Coconut Milk Pudding. It’s a very light little morsel of coconutty goodness and is also wonderfully refreshing but doesn’t require a lot of effort to make yourself at…
Chinese-style Cocktail Buns
A staple of the Chinese bakery is the Cocktail Bun. This Chinese bun, found in every Hong Kong bakery, is an enriched sweet bun with a buttery sweet coconut filling. It is said that this bun came about when a baker didn’t want to throw away any unsold breads so he crumbled it up with…
Food on Youtube : W/b 1st June 2014
Youtube is a hub for food channels and they are incredibly popular. With some channels having 2 million subscribers and many British foodies showing recipes on Youtube, I’d thought I’d find some of the foodie gems to share here with links. I’m subscribed to many food channels and they always post cracking recipes. It is…
Andrew in the Kitchen 