Linzer Sandwich Cookies


Happy Easter!What’s your favourite filling for linzer sandwich cookies? We have chocolate ganache, strawberry jam and lemon curd! My favourite bits are actually the tiny shape cutouts – they are super crunchy and malt-caramel-tasty delicious. My trick to easy-handling of these cookies is to roll out the dough in between baking paper, before they go…

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Butter cookie logs


Realised our classic butter cookies was still in draft and not published on the blog so I had to quickly remedy that!! What makes these outstanding is the perfect ratio of sugar, butter, and flour. This recipe serves well as a base for other flavour additions, like: Cocoa – go with 30% black and 70%…

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Chashu Pork Ramen with soft-boiled egg


Master Chashu Pork recipe with links to: Ramen noodles soft-boiled and marinated eggs (Ajitsuke Tamago) Soup (tare) (coming) Marinated bamboo shoots (coming) The extended lockdown this year has got us longing for our favourite melt-in-your-mouth Chashu pork belly ramen. Thick, deep broth, tender braised pork belly with al dente home made ramen egg noodles…. Yum!…

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Hong Kong Wonton Soup


Another silver lining of lockdown is that I’ve finally nailed the recipe to make a HK style wonton soup. These wontons are best described as bouncy balls of meat, wrapped with silky thin egg dough, swimming in the most fragrant, HK memory-evoking smell. The bounce is a result of a prolonged kneading, done easily with…

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