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Our sourdough bread: we do not add eggs, milk, butter, animal sourced dairy (except bread which contains cheese), additives, sugar, colouring and flavourings.

27/10/2026

Tau Suan 豆爽

The whole point is texture. Soft mung beans you can still see, glossy pandan syrup, crisp you tiao on top.

Steam them separately and they stay whole.

Split mung beans 去皮绿豆 250g
Water 1.5 litres
Pandan leaves 5 to 6, knotted
Sugar 180 to 220g
Pinch of salt
Sweet potato starch 番薯粉 60g in 120ml water
You tiao 油条 2 to 3 sticks

1. Rinse and soak the beans for 1 to 2 hours. Drain.
2. Steam on high for 20 to 25 min until soft but whole.
3. Simmer the water with pandan for 10 min. Add sugar and salt.
4. Remove pandan. Add beans gently. Back to a low simmer.
5. Stir in the starch slurry slowly. Stop a little thinner than you want, it thickens as it cools.
6. Serve hot with you tiao.

Full recipe at quickchefdad.com

#豆爽

20/10/2026

雪耳菊花枸杞糖水 Snow Fungus, Chrysanthemum & Goji Berry Dessert Soup

The haze is getting bad again, so I made a big pot of something comforting for the family. Simple, light, and the kind of 糖水 many of us grew up drinking at home.

I make extra on purpose. One bowl warm tonight, the rest chilled in the fridge for tomorrow.

What you need (serves 6 to 7)
Dried snow fungus 雪耳, 35g
Mixed 南北杏 (50/50), 15g
Fu Ling cubes 茯苓, 20g
Red dates 红枣, 10, pitted
Pandan leaves, 3, knotted (optional)
Water, 2.5 litres
Rock sugar 冰糖, 100g, adjust to taste
Dried chrysanthemum 菊花, 8g
Dried goji berries 枸杞, 2 tbsp

How I do it
1. Soak the snow fungus for 30 minutes and cut out the hard core.
2. Rinse the almonds, Fu Ling and red dates.
3. Put them in the pot with the water, snow fungus and pandan. Bring to a boil.
4. Lower to a gentle simmer for 35 to 45 minutes.
5. Stir in the rock sugar. Start at 100g and taste.
6. Add the chrysanthemum and goji, turn off the heat and let it steep 3 minutes.

The one thing to remember: don't keep boiling the chrysanthemum. Too much heat makes it bitter.

Full recipe and Cook's Notes 👉 https://quickchefdad.com

Did your mum or grandma make this growing up? Did she add pandan, or something else? Tell me in the comments.

14/10/2026

Nanyang flavours, Basque method. Three cakes in one bake!

Makes 3 × 6-inch cheesecakes. (or one 9-inch square pan)
🧀 Ingredients
1kg cream cheese
240g caster sugar
50g gula melaka
6 eggs
3 tbsp plain flour
1 tsp salt
10 pandan leaves
100ml water
Heavy cream (pandan juice + cream = 500ml)
0.25 tsp pandan essence
1 tsp vanilla

🔪 Method
1. Blend pandan with water, rest and strain.
2. Top up juice with cream to 500ml. Add essence and vanilla.
3. Beat cream cheese, sugars and salt until smooth.
4. Add eggs one at a time, then flour.
5. Slowly mix in pandan cream.
6. Divide into three lined 6-inch tins.
7. Bake at 195°C fan for 45–50 mins.
8. Cool and chill for at least 5 hours.
💡 Soft centre, caramelised top!
🌿 Pandan extraction tutorial:
https://youtube.com/shorts/8aDMj1LvTYU

🧑‍🍳 Made with Kenwood Chef XL KVL4100.

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Full recipe 👉 quickchefdad.com

10/10/2026

📦 Unboxing the TJean U-Baker Oven!

A new addition to my kitchen! I've got my hands on the TJean U-Baker oven, and in this video, I'll take you through the unboxing and a first look at what's inside.

Looking forward to putting this oven to work and seeing how it performs with my everyday cooking and baking.

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I'll be sharing more as I start testing the oven with different recipes.

06/10/2026

How to Butterfly a Whole Chicken 🔪🐔

A simple way to prep a whole chicken before roasting, grilling or marinating.

🔪 How I do it
1. Remove the chicken head and neck.
2. Turn the chicken breast-side down.
3. Use kitchen shears to cut along both sides of the backbone and remove it.
4. Open the chicken out.
5. Cut halfway up the breastbone from the inside.
6. Turn it over and flatten the chicken.

That’s it. Your chicken is butterflied and ready for seasoning.

I also keep the neck and backbone for making stock.

Do you butterfly your chicken before roasting?

蒜香韭菜炒老鼠粉 Mee Tai Mak Stir Fry 🍜Chewy mee tai mak with mushrooms, vegetables, crunchy bean sprouts and fragrant garlic ch...
05/10/2026

蒜香韭菜炒老鼠粉 Mee Tai Mak Stir Fry 🍜

Chewy mee tai mak with mushrooms, vegetables, crunchy bean sprouts and fragrant garlic chives. A simple Singapore-style stir fry for an easy family meal.

🍜 What goes in
820g fresh mee tai mak
Garlic and onion
Mushrooms, carrot and capsicum
Chinese garlic chives 韭菜
Bean sprouts

🥣 Stir Fry Sauce
Oyster sauce
Light and dark soy sauce
Sugar
Water

🔪 Method
1. Separate the mee tai mak and drain well.
2. Stir-fry onion and garlic.
3. Cook mushrooms until their water evaporates.
4. Add carrot and capsicum.
5. Add mee tai mak and toss over high heat.
6. Pour the sauce around the wok and toss until glossy.
7. Add bean sprouts and garlic chives for the final 20 to 30 seconds.
Keep the noodles dry and the wok hot. No cornflour needed. The sauce reduces and clings naturally.

Full recipe 👉 quickchefdad.com/recipes/mee-tai-mak-stir-fry/

Do you call this mee tai mak or mee tai bak at home?

29/09/2026

鱼香茄子 Eggplant with Minced Pork

Serves 2 to 3 with rice

🍆 Main
350g eggplant, about 2 medium, cut into strips
90g minced pork
1 pack Lee K*m Kee Funcook Spicy Garlic Eggplant sauce

🛢️ For frying
Neutral oil, for deep-frying
1 tbsp cooking oil, for the pork

🌿 Aromatics, optional
2 cloves garlic, minced
1 tsp ginger, minced
1 stalk spring onion, whites and greens separated

🔪 Method
Cut the eggplant into even strips, 2cm thick and 7cm long.
Pat completely dry. Wet eggplant spits and cools the oil.
Oil to 180C. One piece should sizzle hard and rise in two seconds.
Fry in two batches, 2 to 3 minutes each. Drain on a rack, never paper.
Pour off the oil, keeping 1 tbsp. Garlic, ginger and spring onion whites, 30 seconds.
Pork in. Let it sit 20 seconds before breaking it up, then fry until browned.
Sauce pack and eggplant in. Fold 1 to 2 minutes until glossy.
Spring onion greens on top. Serve with hot rice.

Do not add soy or salt at the end. The sauce pack is already seasoned for this exact quantity.

Full recipe with the air fryer alternative and how to pick the right eggplant
👉 quickchefdad.com

Cooked with Lee K*m Kee Singapore

Do you fry your eggplant, or go straight into the wok?

Winged Beans Stir Fry with Dried Shrimp and Egg四角豆炒虾米蛋 The vegetable most people walk past at the market. 🫛Thin sliced w...
25/09/2026

Winged Beans Stir Fry with Dried Shrimp and Egg
四角豆炒虾米蛋
The vegetable most people walk past at the market. 🫛

Thin sliced winged beans tossed with dried shrimp and soft egg. Savoury, lightly sweet, and the beans stay bright green with a bit of crunch. Six minutes in the wok.

Serves 3 to 4 as a side

🫛 Main
300g winged beans, trimmed and sliced thin on a slight diagonal
2 to 3 eggs
1 tbsp dried shrimp, soaked 10 minutes and drained

🧄 Aromatics
3 cloves garlic, finely minced

🧂 Seasoning
0.5 tsp salt
1 tsp sugar
A few dashes white pepper
1 tsp light soy sauce
0.5 tsp chicken seasoning powder, optional
2 to 3 tbsp water or stock

🔪 Method

Slice the beans 4 to 5mm thick. Thin and even means quick and even.
Wok on high until lightly smoking. Oil in.
Dried shrimp in for 30 seconds until fragrant.
Garlic in. Quick toss, no browning.
Beans in. Toss over high heat 1 to 2 minutes.
Salt, sugar, pepper and light soy. Toss to coat.
Water in. Cover and steam 30 seconds.
Push everything aside. Eggs into the cleared space. Let them set, then fold through.
Serve immediately.

High heat, short cook. Winged beans lose their crunch and colour fast.

Full recipe with the prep notes and timings
👉 https://quickchefdad.com/recipes/winged-beans-stir-fry-with-dried-shrimp-and-egg/

Do you buy winged beans, or walk past them every time?

24/09/2026

A surprise FunCook Family Dinner Kit just landed from Lee K*m Kee Singapore, and I cannot wait to test out the receipes and sauces for dinner tonight.

*mKeeSG

22/09/2026

All-Purpose Chinese Stir Fry Sauce
万能中式炒菜酱
One bottle. Four dinners. No more pulling out five sauces. 🥣

Dinner stops being a question of which bottles you need and becomes a question of what meat and vegetables you have.

Makes about 450ml

🥣 Sauce
60ml oyster sauce, 4 tbsp
45ml light soy sauce, 3 tbsp
15ml dark soy sauce, 1 tbsp
20g sugar
5ml sesame oil, 1 tsp
300ml water or unsalted chicken stock
1 tsp ground white pepper

🥢 Method

Add the oyster sauce, light soy, dark soy, sugar and white pepper to a bowl.
Pour in the water and stir until the sugar dissolves.
Add the sesame oil and mix again.
Bottle it and refrigerate. Shake before each use.

Full guide with the sauce amounts by weight, the slurry chart per dish and the fixes when it goes wrong 👉 https://quickchefdad.com/blog/all-purpose-chinese-stir-fry-sauce/

What is your go-to weeknight stir fry?

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