Birthdays are relatively simple affairs for us. No grandiose parties, no invitation cards and certainly no candles. We’re not against any of these. We attend birthday parties when we’re invited and enjoy celebrating these special events. Oh, but the candles, yes, we’re against them. Why? Because we think it’s unhygienic to eat cake laced [...]

The movies make weeks, months and years a breeze. You meet a guy, you fall in love, you marry him or, maybe you don’t, but it all takes an hour an a half or maybe two from start to finish. The last 6 months of my life, if it were condensed into a movie, will [...]

I bake a lot more on days I need cheering up. There’s something soothing about being completely engulfed in the process of measuring, mixing, beating, getting my fingers caked in dough and simply holding my favorite spatula and folding ingredients into a bowl. It’s not so much the eating that comes after the baking that [...]

In case you didn’t know, or forgot, or it has no relevance for you, the weekend that just passed was Mother’s Day. Yup, that’s probably you and me and my mom and all the mommies out there. It also happened to be  the most exciting week of the last 5 years because the Singapore Elections [...]

Kuih Harum Manis is a variation of steamed cakes known as “apam”. Like many other traditional Malay savory desserts, this kuih has a name that sounds great in Malay but try translating that to English and it sounds weird. Just to make my point, let me translate Harum Manis into English. Harum means sweet smelling [...]