Fusion food has been around for ages. Marry ingredients from two or three different cuisines and you get something new. Sometimes it wor...

Update : Ampersand has closed down This was last Saturday. The Saturday after my disappointment .  The Sunday after, I left a comm...

Scenario. You are a cafe/bistro/restaurant/eatery. It's Saturday and you expect a busy evening. You foresee customers with parties o...

I defrosted a strip of siew yoke (roasted pork) which had been sitting in the freezer. I could have put it into the oven to heat up...

Last Friday I was very pleased when my partner suggested dinner at Ampersand. Yeshhh!! I was pleasantly surprised because he is usuall...

I served  a slice of this Apple Cinnamon Banana Bread to my partner after dinner. "Apple mai cho like that. Boh ho chiak one...

Ramen. That is one Japanese noodle (besides udon) that I have yet to try. Until last Saturday that is. 

I have to admit that sometimes I wished I didn't have to cook on Saturday evenings. Lazy bum! I do miss those carefree days when I c...

It has been a while since I baked, eh? So you could imagine that I was itching to bake something. The previous weekend I put 5 bananas i...

A few weekends ago, my brother and I took our auntie to Din Tai Fung at 1-Utama for brunch. We were craving for dim sum and our last dim...