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 […]
Matcha (green tea) is probably one of the most popular health food at the moment. The full-of-life green colour of matcha powder, which is essentially the ground leaves of a special type of green tea, is a tell-tale sign of its many great health benefits. Certainly in Vietnam and many other Asian countries, matcha-flavoured desserts have […]
I first tried Singaporean snow-skin mooncakes a few years ago when I happened to travel to Singapore during Mid-Autumn Festival. The ingredients of a Singaporean snow-skin mooncake are relatively similar to those of Vietnamese one: the crust is made of glutinous rice and traditionally white (hence the ‘snow’ in ‘snow-skin’), the filling is usually made […]
Ice cream is the ultimate comfort food. It is great any time of the year, but of course, is always the best in summer. Honestly, who in the world can reject that sweet, creamy, thirst-quenching scoop of deliciousness? And soon enough, you will find out how easy it is to make that tasty and flavoursome […]
It is 4 p.m. on a hot summer day and you just hear the news that you need to make desserts for a guest dinner tonight at 6. OH.EMM.GEE! Sweat no more with this super-easy-and-fast to make desserts that is filled with the 2 wonders of the dessert world, cream cheese and Oreos! Even better, […]
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