Archive for January, 2009

Recipe : Drunken chicken with yellow rice wine

I recently learned the difference between white rice wine and yellow rice wine. The normal Chinese rice wine for cooking is the Shao Hsiang Hwa Tio brand. The yellow rice wine is made of glutinous rice. I bought a bottle of the yellow glutinous rice wine for less than RM10. It is meant for cooking [...]

Posted by lilian on January 30th, 2009 under Confinement food | 5 Comments »

I think I will make a good caterer

I haven’t post much these few weeks because I was so busy with Chinese Lunar New Year preparations. I have just finished cooking a dinner for about 20 people. I love cooking for big groups and wish I have a bigger kitchen and professional cookware to get the meals done faster. My siblings and I [...]

Posted by lilian on January 28th, 2009 under General | Comment now »

Preparing the home for the Chinese New Year

Chinese New Year is an important festival in my family as I was previously a Taoist/Buddhist who placed strong emphasis on doing everything right to bring good luck. However, I am not that superstitous anymore after I turned to Christianity. Still, it is good to have a good spring cleaning, throwing out old and broken [...]

Posted by lilian on January 7th, 2009 under General | Comment now »

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