chinese new year
Red wine chicken noodles
Test your Foochow mettle with this robust celebratory chicken noodle soup during Chinese New Year, birthdays, or anytime you please.
Nian gao with gula apong
Set aside an afternoon to make this lusciously sticky dessert, great for snacking on their own or fried with sweet potato and yam (taro).
How my grandfather wooed his son-in-law—with peanut cake
It’s not every day that your future father-in-law goes out of his way to make your favourite cake for you. Except, for Mildred’s father, it was.
Sunquick soda
If you’re going to give yourself a sweet treat, go all out and bring some canned fruits to the party for a drink you can eat.
Mom’s year-round yee sang
When joy is scarce, we find every reason to celebrate. Make this yee sang any time of the year.
Amid a pandemic, yee sang all-year-round
Pandemic-driven lockdowns have flattened our sense of time, and so one family decided to ask the hard question: who said you could only have yee sang at New Year?
The painstaking process of making Foochow red wine
One home cook turns to her family recipes, the Internet, and a healthy dose of curiosity to make Foochow red yeast rice wine.
Of Prosperity Burgers and my long-distance friend
A story of how the McDonald’s CNY staple kept a friendship going for over 20 years.
