About Daniel&Esther

daniel & esther

Daniel works in the consumer electronics industry but hopes to one day own a cafe. Like most Hainanese men, he can whip up a storm in the kitchen and is constantly invited to other people's house parties... to cook for them.

Esther works for a major airline by day, and bakes incessantly by night. Trained as a chemical engineer, she puts that knowledge to good use - by reading package labels to see if it's good for you.

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Recipe: Spaghetti Vongole

Thursday, August 6th, 2009

It was a lazy Saturday morning at the nearby wet market when we chanced upon some really plump-looking clams, with tightly closed shells (indicating they were alive). Thinking of the half-opened bottle of white wine in our refrigerator, we promptly decided to get a kilogram of these bivalves to make spaghetti vongole for dinner.
After doing [...]

Chili Crab for Valentine’s Day!

Saturday, February 16th, 2008

Aiyoh, Esther and I are already married.
There’s no real need to look all prim and proper to impress one another like on a first date, so Esther and I choose to eat chili crab – with our hands, no less – for Valentine’s Day. Which we, for practical reasons of course, celebrated on the 16th [...]