[Recipes] 5 Quick & Easy Pasta Dish

Pasta is a hearty dish that suits the needs of both adults and children. You can either use dry pasta noodles or make your own with the help of pasta machines or hand knead by adding simple ingredients like flour, water and eggs. When done it can be used to cook with different ingredients such as spinach, mushroom, seafood or beef together with sauce of  our choice.

Best of all, pasta makes a quick-and-easy weeknight meal for the family. Below are five of our family favourite pasta recipes which I often rotate around with the bake version. Hope these it will be a useful reference for your weeknight dinner.

[Recipes] Sesame Chicken Mee Suah - 麻油鸡面线

Sesame oil and ginger are two of my favourite ingredients used in my daily cooking. As a huge fan of Sesame Oil Chicken; a popular confinement dish, I am also in love with the soup version by adding mee suah (mian xian - 面线) into it. All the while this dish has become one of my comfort food whenever I need to warm up or drive out the wind in my body.

There are a few ways in preparing Sesame Chicken Mee Suah depending on individual preference. Some might use full portion of rice wine instead of water (or mixture of water and rice wine) for the soup base. Below is a quick recipe for our version.

[Recipes] Salted Egg Yolk Chicken - 咸蛋黄奶油鸡

Recently there is this "salted egg yolk" craze going on in Singapore where you can find restaurants and cafes coming up with innovative ideas such as croissant, ice-cream, chips, cake, cookie and etc using salted egg yolk as the key ingredient. Besides sweet treats there are also many popular dishes with crab, prawn and chicken cooked using salted egg yolk.

Here we are featuring one of our favorite cze char version using chicken (chicken leg and mid-joints) which are deep-fried in flour batter then coated with buttery salted egg sauce.

[Review] Ramen vs Tendon; Tori King, Lobster King & Tendon Ginza by Keisuke

Over the years, the huge number of ramen shops sprouting up around Singapore has proved its charm to the local. This Japanese style noodle is not only delicious but also relatively affordable where it comes with thick and rich broth made using either pork bones, chicken or even lobsters.

In this post we will be sharing our verdicts on two ramen and a tempura tendon outlets by Keisuke brand that we had visited recently.