Crispy Thai Cucumber Salad

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Planning a barbeque or hosting a hot chicken wings night with your cousins? Temper the heat and clean your palette with this crispy Thai cucumber salad. 

Crunchy and juicy cucumbers and shallots in a tangy and sweet marinade of fish sauce and lime juice. Cilantro and mint scream for monochrome green but the addition of chilies compliment the salad with...red (and heat). Not to mention a generous topping of toasted peanuts!


The cucumber juice seeps throughout the salad and perfectly summer-izes this quick salad! (food and word play!) Now, do you really need a recipe after reading this?
Crispy, crunchy, clean

Makes 4 servings:

  • 3 tbsp. lime juice
  • 2 tbsp. fish sauce
  • 2 tbsp. water
  • 2 tsp. sugar
  • 2 large English cucumbers
  • 1 large shallot
  • 2 red chilies
  • 1/4 cup peanuts
  • Mint
  • Cilantro

Whisk together the lime juice, fish sauce, water and sugar to make the marinade. Thinly slice the English cucumber, shallot and chilies. Toss into the marinade and allow to rest for 30 minutes. Toast some peanuts over a low flame until slightly brown. Remove from heat. Once cooled, remove the skin from the peanuts by rubbing them between your palms. Roughly chop the peanuts and mix into the salad. Garnish with cilantro and mint!

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Whether it’s a whole ceremony at your home or a reason to argue over who is going to make it on weekend mornings, tea rules: it’s a universal beverage. The big drink.

Whenever I think of afternoon tea, or just tea in general, one of the first things that comes to my mind is a cup of milk tea surrounded by a table loaded with finger sandwiches, biscuits, scones, jam, cream and Victoria sponge cake; British tea. That’s what I think of tea as. But this visual could be different for you. You might think of masala chai from India, matcha tea ceremonies if you’re from Japan, the first time you drank çai on your visit to Turkey, some tea bags or just some soggy tea-drenched toast.

Whatever it is, tea is a huge tradition all over the world, and just like truth, it has different versions: British afternoon tea, Indian milk tea, Burmese laphet and Moroccan mint tea, to name a few.

What are some of your tea traditions?



Food for thought,

by food, for food.


A lot of my friends ask me where I get my ideas from. Many just assume that I’m a culinary genius and I pick ideas from my brain just as someone would go apple-picking. But that’s far from the truth. You do NOT know what other salt has fallen into my failed dishes.

I get all of my ideas from other food: cookbooks, recipes on Instagram and food blogs of chefs and MasterChef contestants (especially Beccy from Canada Season 5, Fred and Nick from US Season 10 and Suu from US Season 11) whom I admired in their seasons. Many of my findings act as a catalyst for new ideas or help me steer existing dishes in the right direction. Sometimes I’d just want to be a normal foodie and try other’s dishes because, well, I’m hungry. In short, food for my new ideas, by other chef’s food for MY food on this blog. Quite the analogy.


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