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Beautiful Bones: Cold Tofu Salad with Spicy Oriental Topping

» by diva May 19th, 2008 at 12:14 pm » Comments (9)

Once again, my Chinese blood is on a roll and I’m riding this wave to calm my raving tastebuds. Not to worry, the English dishes and baked sweeties will be back on the blog pretty soon — give me about a week though. For now, pray you’ll humour me as such because I’m having way […]



Cold Vietnamese King Prawns & Spinach Noodle Salad

» by diva May 13th, 2008 at 12:04 pm » Comments (14)

I can with great ease wax poetic about prawns: king prawns, tiger prawns and littler shrimps (in fact, anything of distant relation like the crab and lobster all pretty much are seafood I adore), but if I did I might be accused of bordering on psychopathic/obsessive/taking on a pseudo-romantic stance about and on (respectively) shellfish. […]



Tuna on Grape & Peppers Salad with Japanese Sake Dressing

» by diva May 12th, 2008 at 6:55 pm » Comments (8)

Whoever thinks salads are for Ms. Skinny-Wannabes is partially right and also a dooch-bag. Pardon my French but salads are amazing appetizers and tastebud-teasers. They’re easy to put together and always very flavourful no matter what you use. You hardly need to think about the prep work either because you can use just about everything […]



Tofu Salad with Oriental Sesame Dressing

» by diva May 9th, 2008 at 5:31 pm » Comments (9)

If you’re Chinese, Korean or Japanese, you’ll definitely have had tofu as a kid in loads of stuff and told it was good for you. Or at least, that’s what I think. Tofu for me, since childhood, has been a roller-coaster journey — a very tricky bumpy love-hate relationship. It was only until I’d just […]