Season 3 of Silvia’s Italian Masterclass started airing from October 4, 2025 on Channel 10 (every Saturday at around 1pm) and 10play.
(more…)October 5, 2025
April 20, 2025
Random Ramblings on BL Dramas – Wicked Game
Warning, this is not a full series… And we are not even sure if this is a BL series at all… Not sure if the app is a clickbait so you will subscribe to them, or genuinely there is a mistake in their app…
(more…)January 5, 2025
【Gardening】Primulinas and Succulents
My Primulina yungfuensis, 永福皮草 or 永福報春苣苔 in Chinese, surprised me by flowering on the first day of the new year! It was sitting on the second shelf in the corner of my balcony because it prefers shade as it is related to the common African violets. When I gave it a quick water during the Christmas and New Year period, I haven’t really looked at it carefully for a couple of weeks, so did not even notice its flower stalks forming, LOL… Then on the second day of the new year, I was watering it again and noticed some light magenta white things floating on top of the leaves, they are flowers just starting to bloom!
(more…)October 28, 2024
A Bite To Eat with Alice (2024)
Another MasterChef Australia alumnus scores her own cooking show. Alice Zaslavsky from season 4 of MasterChef Australia will host the 50-episode series A Bite To Eat with Alice every weeknight starting on Monday, October 28, 2024, at 6pm on ABC TV and ABC iview.
(more…)October 5, 2024
Silvia’s Italian Masterclass 2 (2024)
February 17, 2024
Silvia’s Italian Masterclass (2024)
Silvia’s Italian Masterclass is the new cooking show from food writer Silvia Colloca. The new show premiered on February 17, 2024 on Channel 10 (every Saturday at around 12.30pm) and 10play.
Update October 10, 2024: Season 2 started on October 5, 2024. The recipes for season 2 are here. However they decided to update their website for Season 2 and made the links below for Season 1’s recipes all obsolete! I couldn’t be bothered changing the links, so all Season 1 recipes can be found here.
(more…)May 23, 2023
Loveholic 撲火 – A-Lin
New song from A-Lin, another beautiful ballad. Only audio version available at the moment, waiting for MV…
(more…)February 4, 2023
【廚娘香Q秀】Daikon Puffs 蘿蔔絲酥餅／天蠶酥
This is a Cantonese dim sum pastry made with Chinese or Japanese white radish, or luobo 蘿蔔 in Chinese, daikon 大根 in Japanese. There are basically two variations of the dish, pan-fried (蘿蔔絲餅), or deep-fried (蘿蔔絲酥餅). The deep-fried variation can also be baked if you so desired. Traditionally they are just shaped into rounds when homemade but in the following videos we are seeing the deep-fried version with the fancy shaping sold commercially as 天蠶酥 or Divine Silkworm Pupa Pastries as they look like silkworm pupae. This type of pastry shaping is known as 直酥 or parallel layering (please see my post on Chinese Flaky Pastry) and they also happened to demonstrate the 大包酥 large-scale laminating method (in the first video) and 小包酥 small-scale laminating method (in the second video) respectively which are very useful if you want to learn how to wrap Chinese pastries using the 直酥 parallel layering technique.
(more…)August 28, 2022
【料理美食王】Taiwanese Mooncakes 蛋黃酥、滷肉綠豆椪
The Mid-Autumn Festival this year falls on September 10, 2022. What do you eat on this festival? Mooncakes, of course! The Cantonese mooncakes are very common commercially and much more difficult and also time consuming to make at home and you also need a mooncake mould to shape the mooncake. However the Taiwanese versions are much more easier to make as they are made with the Chinese flaky pastry. Below are two cooking videos from 2016 demonstrating the making of two traditional Taiwanese mooncakes, one sweet (red bean filling) and the other savoury (mung bean filling) by Taiwanese food writer/instructor, 蔡季芳 (阿芳老師).
(more…)August 22, 2022
【Gardening】Aroids
I have been getting into aroids recently. In the past, I did have a fruit salad plant, Monstera deliciosa, but I have to get rid of it as it was getting too big and took up too much space in my little balcony. Another reason was there were already a couple of this plant in the garden beds around the courtyard downstairs in my apartment block, so I can still enjoy this plant without having another one taking up space in my balcony. I also had a rabbit’s foot plant, Maranta leuconeura ‘Kerchoviana’, for many years but it rotted last Spring which was sad…
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Corner Café 