Favourite Asian dishes & more

Home-cooked Meals: Favourite Asian Dishes and More celebrates the comfort of sharing a home-cooked meal with family and friends. In this collection, popular culinary consultant Allan Albert Teoh presents 45 carefully tested dishes that can be mixed and matched to form a satisfying meal. Choose from a variety of Asian home-style favourites such as beef rendang (spicy dry beef stew), fish head curry and stir-fried okra; or prepare simple one-dish classics like white bee hoon (braised rice vermicelli) and kampong fried rice. Round off a perfect meal with desserts such as pulut tai tai (glutinous rice cakes with coconut jam) and rose coconut ladu (sweet coconut balls), which are sure to delight your loved ones. Cooking at home becomes a simple pleasure with Allan’s easy-to-follow, mouth-watering recipes.

Allan Albert Teoh is a self-taught baker whose hobby of weekend baking flourished into a popular culinary enterprise, AllanBakes. Well known for his delicious cheesecakes, Allan was crowned one of the four Cheesecake Heavenly Kings in a countrywide contest organised by Lianhe Wanbao. Allan’s wonderful treats have also been recognised further afield at the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards 2011 in Paris, where his first book, AllanBakes Really Good Cakes, clinched the Best Desserts Cookbook Award for Singapore. His second and third books, AllanBakes Really Good Treats and AllanBakes Really Good Cheesecakes, were published in 2013. Allan is also the author of the AllanBakes Really Good No-nonsense series published in 2018. Since 2012, Allan has sought to share his passion for baking by imparting his skills and knowledge to others. That year, he mentored the winner and runner-up of the Junior MasterChef Australia (Season 2) when they visited Singapore to do a cooking demonstration at the Singapore Expo. Subsequently, Allan became a full-time culinary coach and consultant. In 2017, Allan joined Chef’s Secrets Cooking & Baking Resource Centre as a partner. Allan continues to share his recipes and love for baking through the culinary workshops that he conducts at private cooking schools and community centres.