Double mango on the grid 🥭🥭
Mango doodh pak/rice pudding tart
Didn't have the patience to wait for the tart to cool before slicing 😅
Now just need the weather to match 🌞
Mango sago chiffon cake for @wednesdays_fun 100th event!
🥭🫧🥥
Did not think that we would have room for cake after a 7-course Chinese banquet from @celestialpeach_uk - I brought boxes for people to take cake home with them, so I was so pleased that this whole cake disappeared in moments and was a hit!
Made a note to self to include fresh mango and sago in-between the cake layers next time for an more intense mango/sago hit 💥
Chiffon cake
Coconut whipped cream
Fresh mango
Mango jam
Sago
📸 @celestialpeach_uk
In September, I took some time off from my job due to stress/burnout and decided to do some baking which a. meant I could do something I enjoy to feel better, b. gave my days some structure, and c. got to test out some ideas on friends. It took a lot longer than just the month to feel like myself again, and although we're already in March, I'm hoping I can do more baking in 2026!
This box included:
💚 Pandan basque cheesecake
🖤 Black sesame, chocolate chip and salted egg yolk cookies
💜 Ube butter mochi
🤎 Chai custard tart
Mexico City 💚🤍❤️
Wherever you look, there is colour. The brightly coloured houses, intermittently draped with paperflowers, to the displays of fresh fruit and vegetables found at the mercado, or perhaps sold from the back of a truck.
The array of sweets at dulcerias, held within clear plastic containers that remind you of Woolworths pick and mix.
Neat rows of agua frescas - hibiscus, tamarind, horchata.
Salsa rojo, verde, mole.
In the morning, you can smell the heat coming off the comals, ready for the day's trade. Sweet breads, coffee, atole, cinnamon.
Later, the traffic builds, and the scent of petrol is a backdrop to the al pastor and guisados, it is difficult to not feel hungry in this city.
There are the expected sounds - car horns, dogs barking, people chatting. Maybe you didn't expect the call of the bicycle street vendors as they pass your window offering tamales and more. The looped recording of a young child announcing the scrap metal van, the clash of overlapping boomboxes, and the occasional mariachi band serenade.
I think I'm in love with the place.
January to June eats
1. Birthday dim sum featuring lobster noodles @yiban_restaurant
2. Roti jala and chicken curry @warung.by.evrocafe . Younger me would have loved to have this spot in Coventry growing up.
3.Didn't realise it at the time, that this meal would be the last at a @chicknsours restaurant. Glad these guys are still around!
4. Really good vegan Thai food @muan_vegan
5-8. Grateful to have gone to 2 of @swilipino supperclubs this year. May's popup was a Thai/Filipino event alongside @ginnkhao - a 2.0 from last year's!
9/10. Homemade wontons and miang kham from talented friend @fengzhensupperclub
11. Mango and passionfruit croissant @milkrunldn got me looking forward to next year's mango season.
12/13. Prawns on toast and durian canele @barang_london
14. Karaoke and dinner at @galaxy.london
15. @brigadiersldn feast for @tammymistry 's birthday!
16. @fan.ldn soft launch 🍣
17. My first @cocoichibanya_uk experience 😎
18. Chicken Milanese and spaghetti - Trishul and I were hungry after a trip to the garden centre
19. Sunset dinner @fenchurchrestaurant
20. Delicious stuffed chicken wings @joyetabelly
Enjoying classic British summer weather on a 5 mile walk from Walthamstow Wetlands to Hackney Marshes, finishing off with a lil sauna/cold plunge at Hackney Wick baths ☔🌞🛁
