It is almost Lunar New Year! I remember when my father went on a business trip around this time to China, he always brought back this sweet delicacy called Feng Li Su (鳳梨酥). When I was small, I never quite understood why it’s always just around Lunar New Year when I got to eat them […]
Ogura Cake! I remember this cake was once such a hit amongst Asian bloggers in Singapore, Hong Kong, Malaysia… People were literally crazy about it, as it resembles very much the famous soft and airy Japanese Cotton Cheesecake (JCC) but without using many fat ingredients. In JCC, there are cream cheese, butter, whipping cream…; but […]
Jelly mooncakes have been becoming quite a popular Mid-Autumn Festival treat as they are less calorie-dense yet still absolutely delicious, and of course, what kids (or even adults) do not like jelly? I have previously introduced to you How to make Multi-layered Coffee and Coconut Jelly, inspired by a very famous Vietnamese coffee drink called […]
Ever since I discovered that I can make my own homemade natural food colourings, I have been very excited to try out using them in many different ways. And because of RnF’s mooncakes series, my kitchen has been filled with a lot of mooncake ingredients that are more than enough for me to conduct some […]
Now that you have known the basics of traditional Vietnamese mooncakes (if you haven’t, check out the recipes for baked mooncakes here and snow-skin mooncakes here), it is time to get creative. I love old-school and traditional styles when it comes to food, but there is always room for improvement for everything in life. To […]
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