Quick and Easy Puff Pastry Apple Tart
I’m not very good at baking and many of my baking experiments tend to end up burnt or awful failures or mere near successes. That is, until I worked on this really easy apple tart dessert! I love anything with apples in it, and an apple pie felt a little too heavy. So, I decided [...]
The Red Dragon Fruit or Pitaya
I first tasted a proper good tasting Dragon Fruit or Pitaya during a trip to Vietnam. It was an eye opener to me, because my previous experiences with the Dragonfruit were not very good ones as they tasted bland. At the time, the dragon fruit was not a popular fruit in Malaysia. To my surprise, [...]
Tropical Fruit: Duku Langsat and related fruits
If I have to rate my favourite tropical fruit, the duku langsat would not rank very high on the list. It isn’t that I dislike the fruit, but it is simply because I prefer eating EITHER the Duku OR the Langsat. The duku langsat is a hybrid of these 2 tropical fruits.
The scientific name for [...]
Buah Tarap - Fruit unique to Sabah/Borneo
I have a friend from Sabah who used to tell me about the strange and wonderful fruits and foods they get in Sabah. One such fruit he never failed to talk about was Buah Tarap (Tarap fruit). One day, my sibling returned from Sabah with such a fruit as a souvenir of his trip and [...]
