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You might be wondering what a music inspired name has anything to do with food. Well it’s just a reference to how different tastes in your mouth would come together like a perfect symphony: the symphony of food! Along the way, you’ll also involve your five senses, arguably more, to create a wholesome experience, which is exactly what I aim to do here: To try and create dishes that would be an everlasting experience. Food, after all can be a way of expressing something on a plate! 



If I were to photograph absolutely everything I made or ate, life would be really chaotic and my posts unplanned. Here, you'll find dishes I've made in my free time, specially curated for my food space on the internet: whether it's a classic meal or a plated dish, something savoury or something sweet, you'll read and see about something that I have made (mostly!) for the first time. I love to research about food, so when I come across a cuisine that interests me, I try to put my own spin on it and share it here.



I want to prove that cooking is not only doable and fun but also something that should be appreciated for the amount of thought that goes into it. What I love the most about it is it's amazing audio-visual experience and ability to provoke your palette! From noticing a sharp sizzle in a cast-iron, colours on a plate to a sharp pause after having a spoonful of delectable curry, you may realise that food doesn't have to be an "everyday chore"!  

I'm not a chef, not a home-cook, just a kid who loves to cook. 

Anyone can cook.












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Tea Traditions
Around the World


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Let’s talk about tea

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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