HEYTEA 喜茶 Food Lab Introduces Baked Goods

HEYTEA, China’s contemporary tea connoisseur and original inventor of the Cheezo Tea, has added baked goods to its menu for pairing with their signature teas. HEYTEA Food Lab is making its debut with four pastries – the Golden Croissant (S$3.60), the Chocolate Croissant (S$4.20), the Double Chocolate Chip Cookie (S$2) and the Butterscotch Chip Muffin (S$3.20).  When I told a friend that I was going to try and review these pastries, she burst out laughing, “Your standard of a croissant is Tiong Bahru Bakery!!” Um…yeah…but I will explain my benchmark, lest you think I’m a complete croissant-snob. But before we...

Celebrating International Fried Chicken Day!

If you were like me, you wouldn’t have known that there’s a day for fried chicken but now we do and it’s celebrated on the 6th July! As such, Foodpanda and selected vendors are celebrating the love for this sinful craving with some scrumptious deals.  The fried chicken deals Texas Chicken Enjoy 43% off on their Mega Max 2pc chicken meal. They also have a limited flavour inspired by Korean fried chicken called Saranghaeyo Maewoyo. Popeyes Savour a sweet deal starting with 30% off foodpanda’s exclusive 5pc Sharing Platter from Popeyes. If you’re ready to tantalise your tastebuds, you might...

Review – Young Master x Hello Kitty Ale

  I chanced upon this at Cold Storage the other week and I couldn’t resist it because it’s a limited edition drink and it’s Hello Kitty! So cute! I was also intrigued with the “Apple Pie A La Mode” flavour.  Young Master Brewery started in Hong Kong in 2013 and they regularly come up with limited flavours where they self-distribute in Hong Kong as well as Singapore.  Taste test The Apple Pie A La Mode is supposed to be an apple vanilla cream ale so I was expecting it to be a bit sweet, fruity with a creamy aftertaste. At...

Learn How to Make Guacamole!

Do you love avocados? Do you want something fun to eat with your chips, crackers or biscuits? This recipe is for you! Ingredients: 1 avocado 1 lime or 1/2 lemon 1/2 onion, diced (optional) 1 tomato, diced (optional) salt and pepper to taste Method:  Cut your avocado and remove the flesh. Smash the avocado in a bowl with a fork. Add in the diced tomato and onion.  Squeeze in the juice of the lime or lemon into the bowl. Mix well. Add in salt and pepper to taste. Serve on top of your favourite chip, nacho or biscuit!

Vegan Cream of Pumpkin Soup

I was inspired to cook this dish after watching this video. It looked super easy and as it has been raining almost everyday, soup looked like something suitable to eat and it was also a great way to finish up the remainder sourdough bread. As I don’t have milk (no, I don’t drink it regularly) so I ended up making a vegan version. Ingredients: 1/2 small pumpkin 2 cups almond milk 1 tsp miso butter (or plain miso) salt and pepper to taste pinch of curry powder (optional) Method:  Just as in the video, microwave the pumpkin so that it’s...

Warm Salad with Prawns

I think this is one of the healthiest meals I’ve had throughout this whole circuit breaker period. It was also my excuse to use up what’s left of my Hollandaise sauce. You can choose various types of vegetables but these were the ones that I bought and am finishing up. Ingredients: 1 asparagus stalk, sliced 1 cup kale 1 cup shimeiji mushrooms 1/2 firm tofu (aka tau gwa), cubed or cut into rectangles 6 prawns, shelled  1 clove garlic, minced Method:  Slice up the kale and put it as the base of your salad. You can replace this with baby...

Korean Style Pork

I don’t dare to call this Pork Bulgogi because I’m not Korean and this recipe is really not the traditional spicy bulgogi recipe…but the taste is awfully close to it. I learnt this from a friend’s domestic helper who used to work for a Korean family but I made my own tweaks. I like to marinate this a day before cooking it and the many times that I’ve cooked this dish, it is always tender and super yummy! Ingredients: 250-300g pork collar shabu shabu 2 tbsp gochujang (Korean chilli paste) 1 tbsp miso 1 tbsp garlic chilli sauce 2 tbsp...

Pan Seared Salmon on Cauliflower Rice

I’m so proud of this dish! It looks amazing…and I cooked it mainly because I wanted a low carb meal and I made Hollandaise sauce. Really easy to do too. If you haven’t realised, I’m quite the lazy efficient cook. Ingredients: 1 salmon fillet steak 1.5 cup kale 2 cups cauliflower 3 tbsp Hollandaise Sauce 1 clove garlic, minced salt to taste Method:  Cut the cauliflower into smaller pieces so that they’ll fit into a food processor. Grind it until it looks like rice. Heat up a pan, add olive oil and cook your salmon fillet on both sides until...

Gyu Nami inspired Gyudon

I didn’t want to cook a simple steak with vegetables and some sort of carb so I was inspired by the Gyudon (beef bowl) by Gyu Nami to come up with this dish which can be easily replicated at home. But unlike Gyu Nami, I didn’t use wagyu and it turned out really yummy so I reckon that you can use any type of beef, as long as it’s meant for a steak or roast. It’s not a difficult dish to do but requires a bit of wash up because you will use several pots and pans to cook each...

Quinoa with Chicken and Asparagus

I know, I know…this doesn’t look like much but it tasted amazing! It was so simple to cook as well, which is great during this pandemic where we’re all stuck at home but still lazy. I was tempted to call this a 3 ingredient dish…but…if you count garlic and oil, it’s really not 3 ingredients, right? Hahaha. Ingredients: 2-3 pieces of chicken thigh 1 large asparagus stalk 1/2 cup quinoa 1 cup water or stock 1 clove garlic, minced salt and pepper to taste Method:  Heat up a saucepan with oil and when hot, fry the garlic till it’s almost...