Lunar New Year 2022 is just around the corner. This year it is the Year of the Tiger and falls on February 1, 2022. Today I came across this video of 15 classic new year songs from the original artists of the 1940s and 1950s.
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【WUMAI烘焙小教室】Taiwanese Yolk Mooncakes 蛋黃酥
This year’s Mid-Autumn Festival falls on October 1, 2020, which is tomorrow. So it is just the right time to make mooncakes at home. This is the easiest mooncakes to try at home, the classic Taiwanese mooncakes with red bean paste filling and a salted egg yolk inside, resembling the moon. Taiwanese mooncakes is different from the widely available Cantonese mooncakes which is much more difficult to make at home. Taiwanese mooncakes use the Chinese flaky pastry which I have written about before, but here you can see the actual demonstration of it.
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Kuih Bahulu / Nyonya Mini Sponge Cakes (cornflour version)
Just an update about the returning dates for this year’s cooking shows (My Kitchen Rules series 3 & MasterChef Australia series 4) and other TV shows on the commercial networks, here’s a good guide for references. As for the eagerly anticipated SBS’s Luke Nguyen’s Greater Mekong, it begins Thursday, February 23, on SBS ONE.
Chinese New Year Mashup Songs for 2012. Happy Year of the Dragon!
Corner Café 