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Beef Curry Noodles

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If you are a curry lover you might love Curry Noodles. Curry Noodles is a type of street food you can find in Malaysia. From high end restaurants, franchises, mak cik stalls, and night market you can always find curry noodles. Curry noodles is one of the beloved food by Malaysian. There are many types of other noodles which are usually sold along with curry noodles, such as Soup Noodles, Boiled Noodles (with sweet potato and shrimp soup), Bandung Noodles and many more.  Curry Noodles basically consists of fresh noodles, curry, fried tofu, boiled or steamed vegetables such as mustard, cabbages and beansprout, fresh chopped chilies and spring onion, half of boiled egg and crispy fried onion. Lime is also added and the juice will be squeezed before eating the noodles.  There are many types off curry noodles as well. Beef curry noodles, assorted curry noodles, chicken curry noodles and prawn curry noodles are some of the variation you can find sold in various...

Black Glutinous Rice Porridge

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Glutinous rice is a widely used ingredient in dessert making in Southeast Asian region. Porridge, kuehs, grills, stuffed foods are some types of dishes which use glutinous rice. The sticky but creamy, soft and sometimes gooey flàvor and texture makes glutinous rice to be chosen as the ingredients in dessert making.  There are some types and grades of glutinous rice which are usually used in cooking. Today we are going to talk about black glutinous rice porridge which is a delicious dessert treat. It is often made during festivals and parties.  Here in Malaysia, especially in Malay cookings the porridge made for dessert mostly use coconut milk as its base or sauce. The creaminess of coconut milk add flavor to the porridge. There are sweet porridge such as corn porridge, mung bean porridge, red bean porridge, and rice porridge that use coconut milk as its base.  Black glutinous rice has a unique flavor of its own, I think, I will describe as sweet and s...