Stay At Home Mom

I never figured why Malay desserts had such weird and unappetizing names. Otherwise, they were perfectly delicious, appealing and mouth watering desserts and savory sweets. Let me list a few with their translated English meaning beside it just so you know what I’m talking about. There’s Kuih Bakar (Bakar can mean either baked or burnt) [...]

I was looking for a quick fix for my chendol craving by hunting around in the Asian store. Half an hour later, I jubilantly held in my hands a green packet. I found it! Well at least I thought I found it. From the illustration on the packaging, it sure looked like chendol.  Maybe, my [...]

Deepavali is popularly known as the Festival of Lights. It really is pretty to see those small little oil lamps lining the front of our Hindu neighbors’ houses and streets like Little India, in Singapore, ablaze with decorative lights. Here of course with houses further apart, and fewer Hindu neighbors, it is almost a special [...]

The dull gloomy skies this morning made me feel the urge to have something different for breakfast today. Something warm and crispy on the outside and soft and fluffy on the inside would be perfect for such a morning. Something that would make the day start on an upbeat note. But nothing too tedious either. [...]

An all time savory breakfast favorite of mine in SG, I wanted to try and make my own here. It is actually really easy and takes about 30 minutes to prepare. Thanks to all the other blogs I checked out before trying my hand at it, I had a wonderful breakfast of kuih lopez with [...]