My husband loves peanut sauce! He loves it in his french fries, satay (sate) chicken, siopao ( or bapao, steamed buns with filling such as chicken or pork) and his most favorite is ‘gado-gado’. That’s typcial Dutch boiled mix vegetables with plenty of peanut sauce on top! When I first got here (Holland) I thought […]

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Lucky for my future groom then, that we got married in Holland. And that it happened during the time that I wasn’t quite accustomed to my environment nor didn’t know where to get important stuff. I didn’t really know then where and how to arrange our wedding, which all decision was left to me by […]

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A simple yet tasty salad to make, that’s what I had in mind one particular morning. So off I went to the grocery to buy my ingredients and you might say that it sound like Thai’s papaya salad. In a way, they are similar. But this one’s a Vietnamese recipe. You might want to try […]

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I am going to take a vacation in the coming months and that will be back in Asia where my parents, sisters, nephews and nieces and all relatives live. The last time that I saw any of them was in 2004 so can you imagine my excitement to go back home?! I miss my father […]

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Each Saturday, my husband and I lunch in this very simple Mc Donald type Chinese WOK to go place, just at the next city. Without tasting their wonderful ‘Kikkoman Fish’ which is my all time favorite, my weekend is never complete. I’m serious! ha ha ha! Anyway, I tried to make some at home - […]

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Since March of this year, my foodblog has been pretty ‘inactive’ due to many things that have happened around me and my family. There was death int he family, I lost my job. had to find a new one. And now I have just that. In as much as I would like to update this […]

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