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“8 Treasures” Sarikei Chicken Herbal Soup
This super easy chicken soup will make you feel warm all over. “Bek Ting / Ba Zheng” – 8 Treasures A few of our friends here hail from Sarikei, a town about 5 hours’ drive from Kuching. They are quite...
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Egg Fu Yong with Green Beans and Daikon
A simple, yet satisfying dinner dish. When I was growing up, eggs were not just something you had at breakfast. As a matter of fact, we probably had eggs more often at dinner time than we did at...
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Chicken with Cognac
Take a boring chicken and maximize the flavor with tons of aromatics and umami flavors…plus some delicious brandy. I was at a friend’s house in Kuching a month ago and she served us a lovely chicken...
View ArticleApologies and Announcements
*knock, knock.” Anybody still here? Echo! (echo, echo, echo…) Yeah, I know the blog has been a little quiet lately. Sorry ‘bout that. The past couple of weeks have been really busy and it’s kept us...
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Rock Road Seafood, Kuching
We dine out at the “best seafood restaurant in Kuching”. We don’t eat out a lot at the House of Annie. Even though Annie and I are both working now, we still manage to eat in most nights of the week....
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Penang Seafood Restaurant, Kuching
Now *this* is more like it!The previous night's meal at Rock Road Seafood Restaurant was unfortunately underwhelming. But at that meal, our good friend Mike started planning to introduce us to another...
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Grow Your Own #40
This edition of the Grow Your Own roundup features 38 tasty dishes prepared using ingredients that were either grown or foraged by the writers. While most of the participants hail from the US, we have...
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Steamed Chicken with Salt Fish Recipe
Stuck in a rut, and looking for something new and tasty to do with chicken? It was Sunday, and I was tossing ideas in my head of what I should cook. I had taken out some chicken drumettes from the...
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Pork, Lotus Root and Black Bean Soup
This healthy soup is so delicious, you’ll be begging for more! We were having dinner in a Chinese restaurant the other day. Nate wasn’t feeling very good and so he wanted some herbal chicken soup. But...
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Marmite Chicken Recipe
This sweet-savory and simple chicken dish is “die die must try!” Marmite is one of those things that make people either wax lyrical or shudder in horror. This spread which is made from a concentrated...
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Pork with Leeks and Basil
This is one of those slap-dash dishes that turned out better than expected. Pork with Leeks and Basil This dish came about one day when I looked into my fridge and realized I had a little bit of this...
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Fried Squid Fail
Squid, squid, squid. Every time I go to the market, I pass by the fish section, and whenever there is fresh squid there, they taunt me. “You are too chicken to try to cook us!” “Nyeah, nyeah, we know...
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Steamed, Stuffed Squid
When the kids wolfed it down in no time and then asked for more, we knew it was good. This squid recipe actually came about 2 months after the previous Fried Squid Fail. Annie had some time to shake...
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Recipe for Fried Pork with Evaporated Milk
An extremely delicious dish that had the whole family clamoring for more. Fried Pork with Evaporated Milk One day while I was cooking dinner, our helper Jessie (who gave us the recipe for Braised...
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Coming Soon...
Just a little note to say that we're in Singapore for a short holiday and will be back to posting about our experiences in a few days. Stay tuned!Cheers and Aloha,Nate and Annie
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Singapore Flyer
Annie’s mum is from Singapore, and we haven’t seen the Singapore side of the family in over 4 years. With the long weekend created by the Wesak Day and Gawai holidays in Sarawak, we had a great excuse...
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Hibiki Restaurant, Singapore
We’ve been deprived. In California and Hawaii, we’ve been spoiled for good sushi. Whether it was Tokkuri Tei in Honolulu, Akane in Los Altos, Sakae in Burlingame, or the inimitable Sushi-Man in San...
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Dim Sum @ Noble House, Singapore
Sunrise over Singapore Although Kuching is known for a lot of good food that you cannot find in West Malaysia (or anywhere else) like Kolo Mee and Sarawak Laksa, Kuching is decidedly not Cantonese in...
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Imperial Treasure Super Peking Duck, Singapore
We share an excellent Peking duck meal with a popular food blogger in Singapore. Back when we were planning to come to Singapore, I reached out to a few Singaporean food bloggers that I wanted to meet...
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Rider’s Café @ Bukit Timah Saddle Club, Singapore
I found the beef! Do you remember that old Wendy’s Hamburger commercial with the old lady yelling “Where’s the beef?!?” when she sees a pathetically tiny burger patty inside a huge bun? That’s what I...
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Maria Elena’s Mexican Restaurant, Alviso
Reading the obituary for Maria Elena Montellano, I am transported back a few years, to the day I visited her namesake restaurant. It was one of those gloriously crisp, clear Fall Saturdays in the Bay...
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Ippudo Ramen, Singapore
These aren’t just any old ordinary instant noodles. After the Peking duck dinner at Imperial Treasure, LK recommended to us a ramen restaurant called Ippudo, right across Orchard Road in the Mandarin...
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Shopping on Orchard Road, Singapore
Our last full day in Singapore was spent doing – what else – shopping! Wheelock Place, Orchard Rd Singapore is a Mecca for shopping. But on this past trip to Singapore, most of our time was spent with...
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Need your help with the finishing touches…
Rolling Out Sod on Our Old Backyard Back when we were moving out of our place in San Jose, we had to re-sod the backyard. It was back-breaking work. First, we had to remove all our raised garden beds,...
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3…2...1…Ready or not!
Hide and Seek It feels like forever since I’ve blogged a recipe on House of Annie. I think the last recipe post was back in May when we did the Fried Pork with Evaporated Milk dish. Then it was a...
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