Denise's Wonderland

I was so fascinated when I saw a youtuber was having a plate of pandan nasi lemak aka coconut milk rice. I am a big fan of pandan. I like any food with pandan flavour, especially sweet dessets.

The green colour, soft and fluffy rice grain instantly captured my heart. I was drooling away when I saw the food clip, and I knew I needed to make a plate of pandan nasi lemak. A plate of nasi lemak is pretty simple to make, especially when using the rice cooker. All you need are rice, coconut milk, salt and water. The pandan extract is just something extra for pandan flavour and colouring.

Shopping in the Asian grocers can be like treasure hunting for me. It can be full of surprises, or it can be of disappointments. There are times I discover great ingredients unexpectedly; there are times I struggle to find the ingredients that I am looking for. This is exactly the experience I have with a bottle of Way Sambal Sauce.

This is the sequel of my radish cake's affair. Other than the pan fried radish cake which I shared in my earlier post (check out post), another best way to enjoy the radish cake is through stir-fry. Stir-fry radish cake is also one of the popular dishes to order in most of the dim sum restaurants.

My last visit to SB was a fruitful one as I brought back home a stalk of fat radish. I used half for my oden soup (check out my previous post) and saved the other half for radish cake. I always order the pan fried radish cake when I patron at the dim sum restaurants. So far the radish cake by Full Moon Restaurant, The Hague tops my list. I simply fall in love with the texture - not too soft or too hard, and you can taste the chunky shredded radish in every bite of the savoury radish cake.

I made chicken dumplings today and I also made some homemade spicy chili oil to go with the dumplings. The chili oil is very simple to make and you can actually make a big amount and store them in the bottles for later use. The bottled chili oil can last for 2 weeks, if kept in room temperature. You may store it for longer, up to 3 months, when store in the refrigerator.