"This year I won't cook a lot," lies my mother every single Chinese New Year.
As usual, the ancestors get to eat first.
"This year I won't cook a lot," lies my mother every single Chinese New Year.
As usual, the ancestors get to eat first.
A few brave Singaporeans unfurled this banner in front of the iconic Marina Bay Sands, in a country where any public protest is illegal without prior approval and approved protests are only allowed at one park (and the authorities already said all registered protest applications relating to Gaza will be denied)
If they were foreigners they would almost certainly be deported. As citizens they’ll definitely see some legal action
https://www.wethecitizens.net/here-comes-the-wong-administration/
I want to make a vegan kaya and call it ‘kayak kaya’ (like kaya)
My multilingual food puns have to go somewhere so hello #tootsea
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When I was a teenager, I used to spend my days talking to hawkers in Singapore and Malaysia. It was just a hobby I had. I would go in search of tasty food (usually noodles, or soup) and I would talk to them about how they cooked stuff. Knowing how to speak Hokkien / Teochew / Malay felt like a super power in terms of soaking up all these memories and ideas.
Today, I often make clear Chinese soups by adding an apple core: a trick one of these soup dudes taught me.
Since it’s hungry ghost festival this weekend:
(Burning paper effigies of stuff you want your dead relatives to have is a very common Taoist practice. I was really tickled to see that they have a Covid vaccine paper effigy, too)
(Story from 2021)