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Melissa | The Undercover Chef

About Melissa | The Undercover Chef

Melissa is the technie half of the dynamic mother-and-daughter duo behind The Burning Kitchen. She loves writing about her cooking learning journey as she photographs, films and documents the craft of making delicious and authentic local dishes. She has been known to sometimes (READ: often) use The Burning Kitchen as an excuse to get Bee Leng to cook dishes she is craving!

Japanese Steamed Cakes (Mushi-Pan) - Super Soft and Cottony!

Cottony Soft Japanese Steamed Cake (Mushi-pan)

Soft and Fluffy Pork Floss Buns (Tangzhong/Autolyse Method)

Reader Survey 2018 Results (Part 1)

Homemade Pineapple Tarts (凤梨挞 / 黄梨挞): These highly addictive pineapple tarts are made from scratch using homemade chunky spiced pineapple jam, which sit atop a tart pastry that is buttery and crumbly. One piece will not be enough!

Highly Addictive Homemade Pineapple Tarts (凤梨挞 / 黄梨挞)

Homemade Pineapple Jam (Pineapple Tart Filling): Nothing beats homemade pineapple jam where you can take ultimate control to get your preferred texture, sweetness level and spiced flavour. This recipe teaches you how to make your own pineapple jam from scratch using 5 ingredients: fresh ripened honey pineapples, sugar, cinnamon, cloves and star anise, and it is super duper delicious and very satisfying to make!

How to Make Spiced Pineapple Jam for Pineapple Tarts

6 Tips on How to Choose A Ripe Pineapple: Pineapples are one of the tricky fruits to choose, as you can't always tell from the colour alone whether or not the pineapple is ripe. To choose a good pineapple, you have to make use your different senses.

6 Tips on How to Choose a Ripe Pineapple

29 Festive Potluck Recipes for Christmas and New Year

29 Festive Potluck Recipes for Christmas and New Year

Kueh Lapis on wooden cutting board

Steamed Kueh Lapis (Jiu Ceng Gao / 九层糕) and Panasonic Cubie Oven Review

Roast Beef Tenderloin with cherry tomatoes and salad on the side

Roast Beef Tenderloin with Grilled Vegetables (Part 2)

Thai Red Ruby in Fresh Coconut Milk (Tub Tim Grob): If you love Thai desserts like Mango Sticky Rice, you will probably love this refreshing and and vibrantly coloured dessert with its ruby-hued crunchy water chestnuts coated in tapioca jelly, swimming in a soup of freshly squeezed coconut milk. We like to call this the Thai version of bubur cha cha! 

Thai Red Ruby in Fresh Coconut Milk (Tub Tim Grob)

How to Tie a Roast: Tying a roast helps to retain a nice round shape during roasting, and also allows it to cook more evenly.

Roast Beef Tenderloin with Grilled Vegetables (Part 1): How to Tie a Roast Beef

These Watermelon Christmas Trees are so easy to do and will add loads of festive cheer to the upcoming joyous Christmas season when we celebrate God's love and gift of new life to people all over the world!

How to Cut Watermelon Christmas Trees

Steamed Meatballs in Chilli Oil

Crispy Chinese Money Bag Fritters: One of my childhood favourites, the distinctive money bag shape of these juicy golden meat dumpling fritters is deeply nostalgic of an era long past when Chinese people used to keep their money in little pouches like these!

Crispy Chinese Money Bag Fritters

Seared Japanese Scallops with Asparagus: These savoury and oh so tender Japanese scallops goes perfect with the crunchy natural sweetness of asparagus, which help to balance out the dish. It may be costly though, so reserve this dish for a special occasion!

Seared Scallops with Asparagus

Tender Steam-Grilled Stuffed Squid: The steam-grill method gives you the best of both worlds - the extra moisture and flavour infusion from steaming, and the smoky bbq flavours from grilling! This delicious squid dish is literally packed with surprises inside out!

Tender Steam-Grilled Stuffed Squid

Sticky Chinese BBQ Pork (Char Siew): This is Mum's Char Siew recipe with no MSG and no food colouring. Look how juicy and succulent the Char Siew is! My absolute favourite are the little sticky glazed bits with a slightly charred, smoky flavour. Simply heavenly...

Grilled Char Siew (Sticky Chinese Roast Pork)

Crispy Wonton with Thai Sweet Chilli Sauce

Wonton Noodle: Wonton-making can be a fun family activity that even young children (age 3 and up) will enjoy! Freeze up a batch for Wonton Noodle - they will come in real handy on those days when you need to whip up a fast, easy & healthy meal!

Wonton Noodles (Wanton Noodles/云吞面)

Shrimp and Pork Dumpling (Siew Mai): This all-time favourite Dim Sum dish is healthy, tasty and easy to make at home! Wrap our versatile meat mix stuffing recipe with wonton skin, and top with fresh shrimp roe and pop into the steamer for a quick snack!

Siew Mai (Shrimp and Pork Dumpling)

The Burning Kitchen | How to Clean Squid

10 Simple Steps for Cleaning Squid Properly

Local Fish Guide - Yellowtail Fusilier

Every Foodie’s MUST-HAVE Guide to 10 Common Local Fish

How to Slice Gourds Into Strips

8 Simple Steps for Slicing Gourds (And Other Tubular Vegetables) Into Strips

Cantonese Stir-fried Prawns in Orange Sauce (Har Lok) Recipe – Version 2

7 Reunion Dinner Dishes That Will Wow Your In-Laws This Chinese New Year

Braised Chinese Shitake Mushroom Recipe

How to Choose Chinese Dried Mushrooms

How NOT to Cook Sago - 3 Common Mistakes People Make: Does your sago turn out more gluey or starchy that you like it to be? You may be making some of these mistakes!

How NOT to Cook Sago – 3 Common Mistakes People Make

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The 10 Things You MUST Know About Choosing the Freshest Fish

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How to Choose Bitter Gourd

How to choose Brocolli

How to choose broccoli

Egg Mayo Toast Cups: quick and easy snack of egg mayo salad in toasted bread cups with ingredients you already have in your kitchen!

25-Minute Egg Mayo Toast Cups Recipe

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How to Devein Prawns

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How to Pack and Freeze Prawns

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6 Simple Steps to Scale and Clean Fish Like A Pro

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Hi! We are Bee Leng & Melissa, the mother-daughter team behind The Burning Kitchen. Our mission is simple: to make authentic Chinese cooking accessible to all, anytime, anywhere. We believe in teaching you the secret sauce behind each recipe. Read more!

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