Our One-Pot Chinese Rice My kids love this because it’s a little sweet and savoury and I love it because it’s packed with vegetables and it only uses one pot to make! We’ll be making these with chicken breast but you can easily swap this…

Pork kebabs with Asian spice or known in my house as Chinese Souvlaki is an East meets West recipe. Tender pork belly kebabs marinated in an Oriental style marinade gives a nice twist on a traditional Cypriot cooking method. Using pork belly creates bite sized morsels…

Fried Rice Recipe – this is really a leftover rice recipe, if you try using just cooked rice it’ll be stodge, you want leftover rice that is cold and is perfect for a fried rice recipe. My leftover rice recipe is the only way to…

Cardamom Clementine Breakfast Buns Clementines are great fruits to use in savoury dishes. They are the result of breeding sweet oranges with Chinese mandarins. They are even healthy to eat per Organic Facts as they contain all the vital nutrients that the body needs such as magnesium,…

Travel Bangkok From Budget Traveler to Luxury Travel in Bangkok – I’ve been ruined forever… For the purposes of disclosure I will state now that I have always been somewhat of a budget traveler. That term may immediately conjure images of an overweight, middle aged…

Pork souvlaki is one of my favourite meats to cook on the BBQ – I mean just watch my video on how to make pork souvlaki and tell me your mouth isn’t watering! I’ll be blunt; when it comes to BBQ’s and cooking over charcoal…

My China Travel Guide, or rather my alternative guide to travelling in China using a hi-jacked bus… I never intended to write a China Travel Guide and I haven’t, but I thought I’d share a little gem of knowledge that is, in hindsight, very funny,…

Chicken souvlaki couldn’t be easier to make and comes with a smoky flavour that works great on the BBQ. Souvlaki is Greek for small pieces of meat cooked on small skewers and my chicken souvlaki is smoky, charred on the outside and moist on the inside. Chicken…

My homemade BBQ sauce recipe just got easy! Ever wondered how to make a BBQ sauce? Then look no further – here’s my step-by-step guide on making your own super-quick (and easy) BBQ sauce. When I’m feeling a little naughty and want to roll my sleeves up…

Baked chicken wings with honey and soy glaze couldn’t be easier! The honey and soy glaze is sticky, sweet with a little kick of chilli! Chicken wings are incredibly cheap, easy to cook and always satisfy – just remember to make roast more hot wings than you think…

Clay Pot Rice always reminds me of Hong Kong…  Strolling along the streets of Kowloon market the main event is the street food, in particular the clay pot rice and the black bean clams (but more on the clams another day…). Clay Pot Rice Recipe is inspired…

Chexican food is the fusion of Mexican and Chinese cuisine and this stir fry recipe seriously hits the tastebud spot. Hot, sticky, smokey, crispy – what’s not to like?! This is my first Chexican recipe. Chexican food; the sweet and sharp of Chinese food combined with…

Pourgouri is a traditional Cypriot recipe. Pourgouri is a delicious accompaniment made from bulgur wheat and vermicelli noodles which is full flavoured, easy to make and goes with just about everything! Pourgouri is a Bulgur wheat recipe. Bulgur Wheat Recipes have been around for literally thousands of…

Yangshuo offers a feast for backpackers travelling through China. The Yulong river lazily meanders through Yangshuo, chaperoned by towering limestone karst peaks. Yangshuo offers an irresistible street market selling Chinese antiques that for the first time you hope are ‘Made In China’. A buzzing night food market that, well, I’ll…

My sea bass recipe is really delicate with a fragrant ginger and sesame oil dressing. For this sea bass recipe I find steaming the sea bass keeps it incredibly succulent and moist. It delivers such a clean pure taste that your body thanks you for…

This isn’t really a Hong Kong Travel Guide – it’s just a few observations about an awesome city… But first, I’d like to take a moment to say how absolutely stunning Hong Kong is from the air.  Flying into Hong Kong it looks like the…

Sweet and sour sauce recipe – Mr Wei’s stir fry duck recipe. Forget fluorescent orange sauces; this sweet and sour sauce recipe used in my duck stir fry is simple, sharp, sweet and as authentic as it gets. I was shown this sweet and sour sauce recipe by Mr Wei whom kept a…

Aubergine Stir Fry Recipe from the Orient! My aubergine stir fry is dark, sweet and seductively hot! Rich in colour, it covers all the taste bases – hot, sweet, sour, easy and delicious! I stumbled across a version of an aubergine stir fry years ago while travelling…