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Economy 101: Is This Why Cooking Oil Price Insanely High in Malaysia?

Palm Oil Cooking Forbes Graph

We use palm as the mainstream oil as it is the obvious option and can easily get it as is one of the largest exporters of in the world after neighbouring . Of course, if one has the , they can opt for the more imported vegetable oils like canola or olive oil. Chart source: Forbes / Statista

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Parenting 101: When Bored Kids Turned To Master Bakers

baking brownies kids lockdown cake cooking

(The sweet end results for the at when little master chefs at home decide to use their free time at home and instead start using their baking skills) 

One of the biggest challenges that we as parents have during this pandemic and the schools closed is on keeping our kids occupied with something productive and something new so that they don’t get bored. Otherwise, they will opt for something that is not productive namely watching TV the whole day or on their phones playing games.

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Fantastic Trip to Iran 2009: We Missed Staying In A Proper Hotel

Hotel Bangkok Orange

(The service apartment that I stayed in Bangkok, overseeing the great Chao Praya River is probably one of the best of all the ‘hotels’ that I have stayed)

Whenever I am on an , I have always preferred staying in a proper than in some apartment.

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Fantastic Trip to Iran 2009: Time To Be A DIY Chef Part 2

chef food iran

(Another item on the chef’s list is a cooked chicken cocktail with fried and a good dose of sauce – not healthy, I know but who cares?)

Lately, we have been finding harder to get by without having a good dose of vegetables – going for the ‘big job’ has not been as smooth as it used to be.

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Fantastic Trip to Iran 2009: Time To Be A DIY Chef

chef food noodles iran

(If I am trying to be a chef, the easiest dish to do would be noodles. One of the ‘local’ instant noodles on sale here but compared to and despite both take the same 3 minutes to cook, it was rather bland and tasteless)

If there is one thing that brings the ‘chef in me’ when I am abroad, it is learning to be independent in the kitchen – independent in the sense of ability to cook something for dinner. As every Malaysians would know, one of the lifelines for times like this is Instant Noodles.

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Food 101: Great Maggi Instant Noodles, Life Saviour Dinner Dish

Maggi Mee Instant Dinner Food

noodles can be classified as the Malaysian dish as an instant, hot that you can quickly cook over by just adding hot water and is a life saviour when you are away on an overseas project and you are hungry at night. Image Source: Lazada

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