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Nasi Uduk Bayam - Fragrant Coconut Rice with Spinach

Nasi Uduk Bayam - Fragrant Coconut Rice with Spinach

This is something of a twist from my basic nasi uduk recipe, by adding some spinach and turn it into something exquisitely different, yet still delicious, and …

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O-Hitashi - Spinach Tower with Sesame Seeds

O-Hitashi - Spinach Tower with Sesame Seeds

Healthy and delicious is not complicated. Create beautiful Japanese spinach tower with three ingredients: spinach, soy sauce, and toasted sesame seeds.

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Nametake - Enoki in Mirin and Soy Sauce

Nametake - Enoki in Mirin and Soy Sauce

This is a really really really simple way to cook enoki mushroom, or you can also use nameko or shimeji :) First, cut to remove the moldy end of the mushroom, …

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Tempe Tumis Cabe Gendot - Tempeh Stir Fry with Habanero

Tempe Tumis Cabe Gendot - Tempeh Stir Fry with Habanero

For a really long time, I thought the hottest chili in Indonesia is bird eye chili, a.k.a. cabe rawit. Then one day I saw habanero being sold, and lo and …

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Pineapple Jam

Pineapple Jam

One of the most quintessential Chinese jam is pineapple jam, which is widely used as filling for pineapple tarts. Though these tarts are traditionally served …

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Es Cincau Sirup Coco Pandan - Grass Jelly in Coco Pandan Syrup

Es Cincau Sirup Coco Pandan - Grass Jelly in Coco Pandan Syrup

You may wonder what to do with the canned grass jelly in your Asian market, but now you know you can have amazing grass jelly drink with little effort.

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Coco Pandan Syrup

Coco Pandan Syrup

Not your ordinary simple syrup. Indonesian coco pandan syrup is infused with the fragrance of pandan leaves and the sweetness of coconut water.

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Pandan Extract

Pandan Extract

Learn how to make homemade pandan extract from fresh or frozen pandan leaves. Pandan extract is very common in Indonesian (and Southeast Asian) desserts.

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Sambal Rebus - Boiled Chili Sauce

Sambal Rebus - Boiled Chili Sauce

Whenever you make Indonesian soto (soups) at home, you must make sambal rebus to enjoy with your soto. Soto doesn't feel complete without this sambal.

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Red Bean and Barley Sweet Soup

Red Bean and Barley Sweet Soup

I love red bean tong sui and barley tong sui by themselves, separately, until one day it hits me that maybe I should try combining the two and see if I like the …

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Red Bean, Lotus Seed, and Lily Bulb Sweet Soup

Red Bean, Lotus Seed, and Lily Bulb Sweet Soup

I am partial toward red beans as dessert, whether as red bean paste in mochi or dorayaki, or as main ingredients in Chinese sweet soup. This is another …

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Snow Fungus and Papaya Sweet Soup

Snow Fungus and Papaya Sweet Soup

Every now and then, I crave for Chinese herbs made into dessert soup, and this snow fungus and papaya is one of the many incarnations of such sweet soup :) …

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