I have fond memories of this dessert. It’s a flapjack-like base but is commonly called a pancake. My buddy, Candice, came over the other day and my mama made this for us. Biting into the soft cake-like dough contrasted by the crunchy brown sugar and flavoured with toasted ground peanuts takes me back to my childhood. Like generic pancakes, the recipe is simple and extremely easy to make. My mama said [...]
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I recently started a new job as a copywriter at Liquorice Digital Agency and I’m loving it! The agency oozes team-spirit juice and I have to say, it’s quite infectious. Every Wednesday, the Liquorice soccer teams plays Fives Futbol together and every Friday we have Liquorice Fridays, in which the agency organises food and treats for everyone to enjoy. This really helps all the new kids get to know the old crowd. [...]
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Asia’s equivalent of panacotta, but a gluten-free, vegan-friendly pudding. Douhua 豆花 (dòuhuā) is a soy pudding made from soy milk with a velvety smooth and silky texture that’s served drenched in a brown sugar syrup. My papa told me stories of his childhood, where there’d be food vendors pushing around a little cart selling food to the locals. He said if the dohua was still warm, it usually meant it was [...]
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Another Foschini Group feature with Balanced Life May 2012. In this feature, I chose 4 recipes from my blog. Styled by myself and the magazine’s art director: Lesley Mallon Photographer: Greg Cox Pickled cherry Tomatoes with Chinese cured Plums Chicken fried Rice with ginger and sesame oil Chinese Egg Pancake Roll 蛋餅 Taiwanese Cucumber Salad Read the digimag here. Tweet
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Growing up, soy-based products were never strangers in my home, but it took me a good few years before I could truly appreciate and enjoy the flavour of soy milk. Ironically, I was given soy milk for babies when I was a young warthog. And by warthog, I mean infant. In Mandarin, we say “doujiang” – ‘dou’ meaning bean and ‘jiang’ meaning liquid/beverage/drink. The reason why the word “nai 奶” [...]
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Before going to Taiwan, my cousin, Christine, advised us to take a trip to a certain cafe. It’s become one of my favourite cafes and is called 85 °C Cafe and Bakery. This coffee shop specialises in desserts and afternoon tea. Their menu has quite a variety including: full cakes cake slices cheesecake rolls pastries decent coffee flavoured teas (hot and cold) lattes mocha slush smoothies and one of my favourite Taiwanese beverages [...]
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Michael Olivier, a chef and well-known personality in the food industry in South Africa has a food show on SABC 3′s morning show “The Expresso Show”. Michael invited me to join him and presenter, Katlego,onto the show last week Thursday (15 March 2012) in Sea Point to cook up a 10 minute dish. My butterflies evolved into vultures and flapped about inside my stomach. Thankfully, my friend Kyle came with for [...]
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One of my favourite Taiwanese foods is our breakfasts. Dan bing, which means egg pancake, is part of a typical Taiwanese and Chinese breakfast. You’ll find that different areas make their pancakes differently. Some make them into a roti-like pancake, whereas my family makes them into a softer pancake. Serves 6 Ingredients: 200g all purpose flour 3 cup hot water 1 tsp sunflower or canola oil ½ a cup finely [...]
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In Taiwan, we went to a restaurant in Taichung well-known for their exquisite menu. Click on the link to see the review. – (review to follow). One of the dishes that tickled my interest was such a simple, yet lovely appetiser – cold and lightly pickled cherry tomatoes. After tasting these, I made it a mission to figure out how to make those bad boys. Taste alone, it’s obvious that they [...]
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My mama came down to Cape Town to visit us (my sister and I) from Bloemfontein a few months ago and we always hit the usual spots. These locations include, Heng Sheng in Sea Point, Tong Lok in Parklands and Taiwan Ballade in Tableview. But, much to my disappointment, Taiwan Ballade had closed down and another restaurant took over. Other than making authentic Taiwanese food, Taiwan Ballade made our favourite [...]
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