One day I was craving a peanut butter sauce to eat with my dumplings and this EASY SPICY PEANUT BUTTER SAUCE FOR DUMPLINGS was created and tweaked until it is now my go-to. I love it with noodles as well!

Homemade MARASCHINO CHERRIES are nothing like the florescent-red orbs you think of garnishing Shirley Temples, or the one offensive fruit you have to pick out of canned fruit cocktail. These delicious, syrupy MARASCHINO CHERRIES are the perfect cocktail garnish (obviously) but think beyond cocktails because they are sublime on desserts like cheesecake, panna cotta, Eton mess or on a scoop of vanilla ice cream which I highly, highly recommend.

Torrijas is a Spanish-style “French” toast. This version features citrus infused milk soaked bread that is coated in eggs and deep fried, served with a luscious custard and finished with a bruléed sugar top.

Crisp meringue topped with billowy whipped cream and macerated strawberries creates a sublime trifecta of sweet, tart and texture. This Strawberries and Cream Pavlova is always a show-stopping favourite whenever I serve it!

This ROSÉ TTEOKBOKKI features chewy-tender rice cakes smothered in a rosé-coloured gochujang sauce that is the perfect balance of creamy, spicy, sweet and umami. Add bacon bits, melty cheese, soft boiled eggs and scallions. Need I say more?

This Scallion Noodle Soup is an easy noodle meal with a tasty pork topping in a rich, peanut butter scallion soup that will have you slurping away in delight. It is basically an amalgamation of my dad’s scallion soup noodles and Dan Dan Mein. Or, two of my favourite noodle dishes in one! 

This GREEN BEANS WITH MISO BUTTER BRAISED ONIONS is side dish perfection. Onions are cooked until nearly melt-in-your-mouth in a simple but flavourful 3-ingredient braising liquid of butter, miso paste and water. To serve, the tender onions are served over green beans, under a blanket of the umami-rich, unctuous sauce.

I’m embracing Fall and fresh fig season with this FIG AND CINNAMON ROLL CAKE. Fresh juicy figs and honey mascarpone cream rolled inside a soft, fluffy Japanese-style sponge cake baked with a kiss of cinnamon. Honey-glazed walnuts are baked alongside the cake for an easy, most perfect embellishment.

When the humidex is humidex-ing, I’m taking my afternoon coffee in the form of cool, refreshing Coffee Agar Jelly! This is a simple yet elegant treat that pairs the rich, bitter notes of coffee with chilled sweetened cream. It is a popular Japanese dessert that is perfect for warm days or as a light finish to a meal. A là mode or on its own, this Coffee Agar Jelly with chilled sweet milk is the delicious hot weather coffee reprieve you deserve.

My family loves these Beef Rolls with Enoki and Veggies. Since there is protein, veggies and mushrooms all bundled together, it is the perfect standalone, well-rounded meal which makes me love it even more. They are soo good — with all that sauce — served on rice! Once the bundles are prepared, they cook in a matter of minutes right in the pan along with the sauce. Faster than the time it takes to cook the rice. Dinner is served!

This deeply satisfying JAPANESE CURRY UDON (Kare Udon) features a mild, slightly sweet Japanese-style curry sauce that is dialled perfectly — with a viscosity somewhere between sauce and broth — to enrobe each chewy udon strand for the perfectly tasty bite.

These cool, sweet and tangy RASPBERRY YOGURT CLUSTERS are a spin-off of the viral Blueberry Yogurt Clusters that I shared in my previous post. Those were so good we immediately created a different — dare I say it — even BETTER version with these RASPBERRY YOGURT CLUSTERS!

Thin, crunchy chocolate enveloping a creamy centre with pops of juicy blueberries, these BLUEBERRY YOGURT CLUSTERS have been going viral recently! I added my own spin to it by adding tahini, maple syrup and cinnamon to the yogurt mixture which add really nice flavour dimensions.

Blueberry and coffee is one of those flavour combos people smugly hashtag #IYKYK every time they put it together (kk that might be me lol). This BLUEBERRY ICED LATTE is a celebration of that flavour pairing in a tall, delicious, gorgeous glass! I highly recommend topping it with dashes of cinnamon not just for garnish but as a flavour boost because cinnamon intensifies the flavour of blueberries. #IYKYK 😉

This 10-MINUTE CREAM CORN CHICKEN RICE is my take of a popular homestyle Cantonese dish (粟米雞粒飯) but my version takes only 10 minutes to make! You also won't be needing a knife or chopping board, either. Sound good? GOOD.

This EASY ONE-POT CHINESE NOODLE SOUP is the answer when you need a nourishing and soul-soothing meal that requires hardly any cooking and is done in 20 minutes. Literally, the only skill needed is the ability to throw everything into a pot and boil them!

Once Spring hits, I’m enjoying this gorgeous STRAWBERRY MATCHA ICED LATTE on repeat into the summer months while strawberries are sweet and bountiful! The layers of strawberry sauce, cold creamy oat milk and grassy matcha is heaven in a tall glass.

This CUCUMBER WRAPPED SUSHI ROLL is kinda like the love child between a Japanese maki and a smoked salmon tea sandwich! The refreshing cucumber exterior nicely contrasts the tasty interior of vinegared rice, savoury smoked salmon, creamy avocado and cream cheese. They are delicious little bites perfect for brunch, as an appetizer or a fun minimal-cook meal.

Shrimp in Lobster Sauce features succulent shrimp and ground pork coated in a silky and flavourful sauce that is SO perfect for serving on steamed rice! After the shrimp is prepped, the dish comes together in less than 15 minutes, all in one cooking vessel. Yasss.

Large succulent shrimp tossed in a sauce of aromatic scallions and ginger, umami soy sauce and tangy sweet ketchup. This dish begs to be served on a bowl of steamed rice!