This Cantonese-style Stir-Fried Pork Belly in Black Bean Sauce is rich, savoury and packed with flavour from preserved black beans, ginger, garlic and chillies. The pork is first blanched, then crisped in the wok before being lightly braised in a glossy black bean sauce.
Crispy Thai Style Fish Sauce Chicken Wings are a dangerously addictive snack built on just a few powerful ingredients. This Crispy Thai Style Fish Sauce Chicken Wings recipe keeps things simple, using fish sauce as the main seasoning before deep frying at 180°C for perfectly golden, succulent wings. A fragrant garnish of fried shallots, palm sugar, lime leaf and chilli adds sweetness, heat and crunch to finish.
Fish sauce is intensely savoury, so the wings only need a short marinade before frying. The key is controlling your oil temperature, cooking in batches and finishing with a quick dip of lime leaf and chilli into the hot oil to release their aroma.
Sweet Potato & Prawn Coconut Curry
Amazing Thai Red Curry is a vibrant Southeast Asian classic built around a freshly pounded curry paste, gently simmered in coconut milk until rich, fragrant and deeply flavoured. This Amazing Thai Red Curry recipe combines sweet potato, pea aubergines and prawns for a perfect balance of sweetness, spice and savoury depth.
The key to an authentic Thai red curry lies in making the paste from scratch. Using a pestle and mortar releases the natural oils from lemongrass, galangal, turmeric and chilli, creating a far more aromatic base than shop bought paste. Gradually adding coconut milk and allowing the oils to split intensifies the flavour and gives the curry its signature richness.
Simple Thai Basil Chicken Stir Fry is a fragrant, fast Thai street food classic made with minced chicken, garlic, shallots and fresh Thai basil. This Simple Thai Basil Chicken Stir Fry recipe balances honey, fish sauce and soy with just enough heat from fresh chillies, finished with a splash of chicken stock for a light glossy sauce.
Known in Thailand as Pad Krapow Gai, this dish is all about bold aromatics and high heat cooking. The basil must go in at the very end to keep its fresh peppery fragrance.
Delicious Filipino Chicken Adobo is a one-pan classic and widely regarded as the national dish of the Philippines. This Delicious Filipino Chicken Adobo recipe balances salty soy sauce, gentle sweetness and sharp vinegar to create a rich, braised chicken dish with a glossy, reduced sauce perfect for spooning over rice.
The key to authentic flavour is caramelising the soy and sugar around the chicken before adding water, then introducing vinegar towards the end so it cooks through but still delivers that signature adobo tang.
Delicious Singapore Chilli Crab is one of Singapore’s most famous seafood dishes, known for its vibrant red, sweet and spicy sauce that clings to fresh crab. This Delicious Singapore Chilli Crab recipe builds flavour slowly by stewing onion, ginger and chilli before caramelising sweet chilli, palm sugar and shrimp paste into a rich base. The crab is then gently steamed in the sauce and finished with ribbons of egg for that signature glossy texture.
These Malaysian-style Banana Fritters are crispy on the outside, soft and sweet on the inside, with a light, chunky banana batter. Finished with cinnamon sugar, they’re a quick and comforting treat.
These Five Spice Pork Rolls are crispy, fragrant and packed with juicy pork, prawns and crunchy water chestnuts. Wrapped in bean curd skin and deep fried, they’re a classic Southeast Asian snack with bold flavour and texture.
Singapore Style
Hainanese Chicken Rice is one of the most iconic dishes in Singapore’s hawker centres, originally brought by Hainanese immigrants and adapted into a national favourite. This Hainanese Chicken Rice recipe follows the classic Singapore style method, gently poaching a whole corn fed chicken in ginger and spring onion infused stock, then using that fragrant broth to cook fluffy, aromatic rice.
The magic of Hainanese Chicken Rice lies in precision. The chicken must never over boil. Instead it is simmered briefly, then left to sit in the hot stock to cook through gently. The rice is cooked in rendered chicken fat and stock for rich flavour, and the dish is served with vibrant chilli sauce and fragrant ginger and spring onion oil.
Char Kway Teow is one of Malaysia’s most famous street food noodle dishes, known for its smoky wok hei flavour, sweet savoury sauce and quick high-heat stir frying. Wide flat rice noodles are tossed with prawns, egg, bean sprouts and Chinese chives in a rich sauce made with sambal, shrimp paste and sweet soy. The key to great Char Kway Teow is intense heat, minimal stirring and allowing the noodles to lightly caramelise in the wok.
Delicious Indonesian Fried Rice, known as Nasi Goreng, is one of Indonesia’s most iconic street food dishes. Built on day-old rice, shrimp paste and kecap manis, this Delicious Indonesian Fried Rice recipe delivers deep savoury flavour with a slightly sweet, caramelised finish.
Unlike classic Chinese egg fried rice, Nasi Goreng relies on shrimp paste for umami and kecap manis for its signature dark, treacly richness. Finished with a crispy fried egg on top and optional sambal, it is bold, comforting and full of texture.
This Taiwanese Beef Noodle Soup is rich, aromatic and deeply comforting, with slow-braised beef simmered in a fragrant spiced broth. Served with noodles, greens and punchy toppings, it’s a true classic packed with bold flavour.
Three Cup Chicken is a classic Taiwanese dish made with equal parts soy sauce, rice wine and sesame oil, finished with fragrant basil for a bold, aromatic punch. This Three Cup Chicken recipe focuses on caramelising rock sugar first, searing large chunks of chicken for char, then reducing the sauce until glossy and sticky.
Despite the name, it is not made with three cups of liquid. The “three cups” refer to equal quantities of soy sauce, rice wine and sesame oil. The final flourish of basil transforms the dish into something intensely savoury, slightly sweet and beautifully aromatic.
This Taiwanese Sesame Oil Chicken Soup is a comforting, nourishing broth made with roasted chicken, ginger, spring onions and Taiwanese rice wine. Finished with black sesame oil, it's a warming soup that's traditionally enjoyed when you're feeling under the weather or simply in need of something restorative.
