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I have decided to start a food blog to record recipes of food I've cooked throughout my uni life. Being in the UK for the past 2 years, I started learning how to cook food I miss from home and to my pleasant surprise, they have all turned out to be more than merely satisfactory. Of course, I didn't start experimenting from scratch - thanks to Youtube and the other successive food blogs before mine, I learned many lessons while lying in bed for hours on end reading and watching cooking tutorials. Particular thanks to myasiankitchenNY, noobcook, rasamalaysia, MyWokLife and joysthaifood for never disappointing in Asian food recipes, and Youtubers cookingwithdog and runnyrunny999 for their awesome and easy-to-follow Japanese cuisine recipes. By combining these recipes from different cooks and adding my own touch to them, I must say I produced many delicious and hearty dishes for my friends and myself.

My recipes will be written in the simplest step-by-step form so you guys can follow them easily. Ingredient lists will be made as compact as possible so you can do what I do when I see a particular recipe online that I want to try - I use my phone to take a snapshot of it and it is retained for easy reference the next time I go grocery shopping! Also, as you know, household chores are all about saving a step and cutting cost, so if I have any tips or shortcuts (which do not compromise on the quality of food) I will definitely add them in at the end of each recipe too. I will attempt to take as many pictures as I can but please pardon the quality of my photographs as they will be taken by my noob iPhone 4 camera. Every once in a while I will throw in food reviews of yummy stuff I eat when I go travelling or when I am back home in Singapore to visit. Hopefully these will help you decide on which places to go for different dishes that you crave!

Lastly, please know that I am an amateur cook and in no way am I implying that I am like any one of the above-mentioned foodie writers. I do not have the experience of these authors in writing food blogs, so if you see anything you do not like or have any suggestions on how I can improve, feel free to comment (nicely).

Till the next post, bon appetit!

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