Vanishing Home Recipes
Buginese homecooking
Recipes from a different time: The Bugis art of slow and lemak cooking
What makes Bugis home-cooking distinct from the standard Singaporean Malay fare? Madam Milah Bakri shows CNA Insider three ...
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Fiercely Nyonya: Growing up with canes, feasts and a Peranakan Mama's tough love
It meant being chased around the house with a cane, but also meticulously prepared feasts every night and hand-sewn pajamas ...
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Learning from nenek how to be a man for his family - in the kitchen
His grandmother showed him that cooking can keep a family together. Now he hopes to inspire other men to share the ...
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Recreating grandma’s recipes, which Alzheimer’s stole
She was too intimidated by Indian cooking to try it - until it was almost too late, and desperation drove Vasunthara to learn ...
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Long-distance wok affair: 15,000km can’t keep him from Ah Ma’s home-cooking
She cooked for her grandson all through his growing-up years. Now in New York, he’s learning to recreate her recipes over the ...
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Eurasian Putugal: The recipe
Here's how to make this Eurasian kueh that was more commonly enjoyed in the past, but is less well-known in Singapore these days.
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When there was no money, ikan bilis was ‘like gold’: The art of humble cooking
Families can afford much better ingredients today than in the past. But as these ‘poor’ dishes disappear, are we also losing a ...
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Preserving the homemade bak chang, with a little bit of reinvention
The laborious steps mean fewer home-cooks are making Chinese rice dumplings come the annual season. But those who do, are ...
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Mrs Lam's handmade Hakka noodles: The recipe
How to make Ke Jia Mian the old-fashioned way, in a recipe one home cook has been perfecting over some 50 years
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