memories

SouperChef Special | Nourishing Sesame Chicken Stew (Contains Chicken | Contains Gluten | Dairy-Free) To say street foods underpin Taiwan’s culture and diet would be an understatement. Walk into any night market and you will feel a prevailing sense of structure. Each stall has its own fans. Each stall touts to be “authentic” or “old-time”. […]

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SouperChef Special | Chiayi-style Barramundi Casserole (TSSXKuhlbarra) (Fish* | Contains Gluten | Dairy-Free | Slightly Spicy) *May contain fine bones Who else binge-watched Netflix’s Street Food series? Taiwan unsurprisingly was featured in the first season! To be honest, I was expecting the usual Taiwanese culinary tropes of night market street foods, not an entire episode […]

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SouperChef Special | Taiwanese-style Braised Beef Stew Beef | Contains Gluten | Dairy-free | Slightly Spicy Small eats are the big thing in Taiwan, especially beef noodles. Some call it the national dish, some say you haven’t been to Taiwan if you haven’t tried this representative delicacy of Taiwan! Well, you know how beloved it […]

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SouperChef Special | Grandpa’s Hainanese Beef Stew (Contains Beef | Contains Gluten | Dairy-Free) My grandfather worked as a cook for a British family, picked up techniques of Western cooking and infused it into his own Hainanese style. I learned to cook this stew from my mother, who inherited my grandfather’s gift in cooking. Star […]

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SouperChef Special | Nanny’s Javanese Opor Ayam (Contains Chicken | Dairy-Free | Gluten-Free) Both my children are immensely fond of their nanny, a wonderful cook who is equally adept at traditional favourites and fusion food. My daughter particularly loves her Javanese non-spicy chicken stew, braised in coconut milk with candlenuts, kaffir lime leaves, turmeric and […]

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Vegan Chap Chye Stew (Vegan | Dairy-Free | Egg-Free) Growing up in a big family of competent home cooks and humble restaurant chefs meant that I spent a great deal of my childhood in the kitchen and out in the backyard growing ingredients. We have pretty green fingers! Lime and star fruit trees lined the […]

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SouperChef Special | Grandpa’s Hainanese Beef Stew (Contains Beef | Contains Gluten | Dairy-Free) Reliving food memories from my childhood is like taking carousel rides in the amusement park – heartwarming, fuzzy, and never quite enough. Growing up, I’ve always been surrounded by good food. I used to think every adult is a great cook, […]

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Memories on The Table My inspirations I’ve always found it most fascinating how I’m jolted to various memories simply from the sight, or even mere mention, of certain foods. Give me beef stew and I think about my childhood days frolicking in the backyard of my home in Brunei, my grandfather hunched over the stove […]

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Souperinspiration | Vegan Chap Chye Stew Growing up in a big family of competent home cooks and humble restaurants chefs meant that I spent a great deal of my childhood in the kitchen and out in the backyard growing ingredients. We have pretty green fingers! Lime and star fruit trees lined the yard, interspersed with […]

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Souperinspiration | Nanny’s Javanese Opor Ayam If my daughter, Isabella, were to tell her story about her childhood food memories, this soup would certainly come out tops in her mental scrapbook of nostalgia! Both my children are immensely fond of their nanny of nine years, and it’s really not hard to see why. Our family […]

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Souperinspiration | Grandpa’s Hainanese Beef Stew Reliving food memories from my childhood is like taking carousel rides in the amusement park – heartwarming, fuzzy, and never quite enough. Growing up, I’ve always been surrounded by good food. I used to think every adult is a great cook, because everyone around me shows such respect for […]

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