Vanishing Home Recipes

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 ...

From coop to pot: The lost kampung art of rearing your own food

How do you keep your own chickens - and what is it like to slaughter one? Madam Ong Ah Lee, 71, of Ayer Tawar in Perak teaches ...

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 ...

Mdm Tseng’s Oyster/Clam Omelette: The recipe

In the old days, her family would dig up fresh clams from the beach to fry up this old-time favourite.

Madam Koh’s bak chang: The recipe

It's part-Teochew, part-Hokkien, but mostly this grandmother's own recipe that she has developed over the years.

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