A self-confessed foodie on a culinary journey to discover personal tastes, budget cooking and food adventures.
Simply said, I love to eat. I love food almost as much as food loves me!
Born and bred in Malaysia, I was spoiled by the array of wonderful, colourful and flavourful food I found right at my doorstep, and arriving in England as a student and now as a 'working professional', English food (the kind that are available and cheap) seemed a bit grim (their obsession with ready-made meals!). I was affronted. A slab of meat, some potatoes and frozen microwaved peas do NOT constitute a well-rounded meal for me. Neither is a bit of meat and onion inside stodgy pastry. Not that I don't like them, but I can make better, healthier, tastier versions of my own. And why, even in the market, are all their seafood boiled and cooked and otherwise have their sweet briny taste taken from them? I lament the sweet sweet stock lying in some mystery vat somewhere, wasted.
But cooking for one isn't fun. There's no one around to be my guinea pig. For almost year, I ate cereal for dinner or walk into Subway after spending untold hours in my uni library.
Until I walked into where I currently live in.
My housemate all but dropped his Masters course and joined a bakery course with the local college, and the wonderful smells he bring home every Tuesday evening is a good reminder that delicious food abound in England, one just gotta make their own. Further testament to this is my boyfriend's mum's cooking. Not only have I found a (quite willing) partner-in-crime in search for the best Far Eastern restaurant in Sheffield's unofficial Chinatown (might have found that already), but also a (sometimes unwilling) lab rat to cook for.
Joy!
Hoo boy. In the midst of baked-beans-on-toast-or-whack-something-into-the-oven habit too many people seem to employ, I've found me a foodie or two...or three.
And while I absolutely adore my Sunday roasts and fish pies and casseroles and a good fry-up, nothing beats the joy of being able to reproduce a little of that taste from home - amalgamation of aromatic garlic, ginger, shallots, lemongrass and soy sauce - of home-cooking, my family cooking and the best of the street food found everywhere in Kuala Lumpur.
I de-stress through cooking. I love it when I can come home from work, whiz about the kitchen for 20 minutes and put on the table a nutritious yummy meal.
But I'll never ever EVER say no to eating out :D I love pastas! Pan-fried cod on a bed of cabbage and potatoes? Ohhh mmm! Lamb shank served with a sweet potato mash...yum. I just need the money to. Now I just need to find myself either a sponsor, or a magazine/paper to review for!
