My Souperinspiration: Sumo Nabe Hotpot Hotpot fit for a sumo wrestler! We have cooked this using soy milk, the first for me, and I was pleasantly surprised by the sweet, rounded delicate flavour of this soup. Soymilk is made from soybeans with high volumes of isoflavin, important in prevention of many cancers, heart diseases and […]
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Souperinspiration | Aussie Barramundi Chowder with Dill
by Souperchef Anna onMy souperinspiration: Aussie Barramundi Chowder with dill During the family trip to Perth, I had the rare experience of cooking by the beach while the crashing waves played as my background music. Ah, bliss! I don’t mind doing it over and over again. While the kids were frolicking by the beaches near Margaret River, I […]
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Souperinspiration | Japanese Style Sweet Potato Curry
by Souperchef Anna onMy Souperinspiration: Japanese Style Sweet Potato Curry Comfort food means different things for different people. For some, it’s a big bowl of noodles. For others, it’s ice cream with chocolate sauce. During my Souperchefannatravels, I asked Junko-san, the lead host and the director for our trip, what her comfort food is, and what she would […]
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Souperinspiration | Chicken Cacciatore with Portobello and Sage
by Souperchef Anna onMy souperinspiration: Chicken Cacciatore with Portobello and Sage Pollo alla cacciatore is a traditional Italian hunter-style stew. This was inspired by my trip to Italy in 2012, travelling through the rolling hills of Tuscany. The hunters of Southern Italy would eat this at the end of a long, bitterly cold November day and I suspect it […]
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Souperinspiration | A Florentine Midsummer Night’s Beef Stew
by Souperchef Anna onMy souperinspiration: A Florentine Midsummer Night’s Beef Stew In Italy, especially in Florence, the feast of St. John the Baptist has been celebrated from the medieval times, certainly in the Renaissance. Festivals last for 3 days from the 21st to 24th June, a period marked as midsummer, a celebration of the summer solstice. There will […]
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Souperchef Anna | Memories On The Table
by Souperchef Anna onMemories 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
by Souperchef Anna onSouperinspiration | 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
by Souperchef Anna onSouperinspiration | 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
by Souperchef Anna onSouperinspiration | 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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Souperchefannatravels | Celebrate Thailand
by Souperchef Anna onSouperchefanna Travels | Celebrate Thailand “Every trip, whether you board a plane or travel vicariously….., should have an element of surprise and discovery. What new foods have you fallen in love with while traveling?” says author Emma Christensen. Her beautiful words are a constant reminder for me to celebrate all experiences, to rekindle old love […]
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Souperinspiration | Tom yum crab bitsque
by Souperchef Anna onSouperinspiration | Tom yum crab bitsque I find inspiration from my travels. Of course, I read travel and food blogs for inspiration too. Tom yum goong with its pungent and zesty feast of flavours with every slurp is a soup I truly enjoyed when in Bangkok on a recent trip in October 2015. It is […]
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Souperinspiration | Khao soi chicken curry
by Souperchef Anna onSouperinspiration | Khao soi chicken curry Andy Ricker, founder of Pok Pok in Portland said it well in a 2011 New York Times piece that khao soi is “exotic without being weird and, most important, completely delicious.” It’s the kind of dish everybody can love. We used to have a khao soi noodle dish in […]
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