This homemade furikake recipe with Southeast Asian flavours makes the umami-rich Japanese rice seasoning with a tropical Southeast Asian twist. Traditional furikake ingredients such as white and black sesame seeds and toasted nori are combined with dried Southeast Asian spices and herb powders. It’s completely addictive. I appreciate that my homemade furikake recipe with Southeast … Read more
This Southeast Asian pesto recipe makes an easy Asian style Italian pesto that you can stir through pastas or noodles, such as soba or udon, use as a salad dressing (potato salad is perfect), drizzle onto barbecue meats or skewers, dollop on Southeast Asian soups, spread onto Vietnamese banh mi or Cambodian num pang or … Read more
Coronavirus in Southeast Asia and travel – we’re covering the current status regarding COVID-19 cases in Southeast Asia, travel restrictions, visa, insurance and quarantine requirements, movement restrictions, safety measures and social distancing requirements, and plans for opening up. We’ll update this country by country guide weekly. Update: the world is opening up! See this post … Read more
This pepper steak pie recipe for a Cambodian beef lok lak meat pie is based on a popular Cambodian street food dish eaten at local eateries, that is a cousin to Vietnam’s loc lac or ‘shaking beef’. It’s next in our series of Cambodian-Australian meat pie and sausage roll recipes. My pepper steak pie recipe … Read more
This ultimate tuna melt recipe takes the often-limp grilled cheese and tuna toasted sandwich and by replacing the milk bread with fresh home-baked sourdough bread turns it into a café-worthy gourmet open sandwich – which in our opinion is the best tuna melt we’ve ever eaten. Here’s how to make our idea of the ultimate … Read more