5 Recipes To Satisfy Your Dining Out Cravings

The toll of not being able to dine out may be minor for some, and major for many, including food stall owners, wet market sellers and hawker stalls that rely on human traffic to keep their stalls and livelihoods going.

Our team has curated a few recipes which you can make at home for lunch or dinner with simple ingredients you can get from the market, after stopping by the hawker centre to buy breakfast to support our local hawker stall owners in this difficult time.

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Queso Birria Tacos Recipe

With dining out being suspended for the time being, many of the exotic cuisines previously available to us at swanky bars in town have suddenly been snatched out of our reach. But fret not, for technological advancements have bestowed us with the ability to access new cuisines every day through the internet, whether it’s through delivery or finding new recipes for us to experiment with.

If you’ve been seeing the viral birria taco recipe on the internet and it’s incited a slew of unexplainable feelings within you, then this is the recipe to follow for an authentic Mexican fiesta with your family at home.

The thing with birria tacos is that it’s an easy food to assemble, easy to make food, but the preparation of the birria broth takes an extremely long time, so beware of the cooking time if you’re in a crunch for time.

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Air Fryer Quiche

Quiche? In an air fryer? You read that right. This once taxing dish has been made infinitely easier due to the revolutionary invention of the air fryer, which is basically a mini convection oven.

This recipe is made even easier with the use of instant roti prata, which can be found in all grocery stores at an affordable price as well, and any random vegetables lying around in your kitchen. This recipe is also ideal for single eaters, as one roti prata is just nice for a single eater, so you don't have to worry about making too big a portion and eating the same shepherd’s pie for days on end.

This recipe is adapted from Tik Tok user Millie Guo’s account, on which she shares the groundbreaking recipe for this single serving, instant quiche.

Korean Steamed Eggs

This hearty dish is a wonderful and filling accompaniment to rice on hot and cold days and is shockingly easy to make. This recipe promises a light and silky smooth texture you only find in restaurants, which is an excellent replacement for the authentic Korean cuisine you can’t get with the Phase 2 (Heightened Alert) restrictions.

Recipe credit: Gyeranjjim (Korean Steamed Eggs) - Korean Bapsang

Gigi Hadid Pasta

Besides being a world-renowned high fashion model, Hadid has proven herself to be a force to be reckoned with in the kitchen. Affectionately known by netizens as the “Gigi Hadid Pasta”, this viral recipe is actually a pasta alla vodka recipe, with a spicy tomato cream sauce.

Feel free to add more garlic as you wish, because this pasta is laden with a multitude of complex flavours that are bound to keep you cooking for more.

Recipe credit: Gigi Hadid’s spicy vodka pasta (without the vodka) | Recipe | Kitchen Stories

Hot Pot Soup Base

Is your craving for a sumptuous meal at Hai Di Lao kicking in? If so, look no further than this simple recipe to enjoy a hearty hotpot meal with your family members at home. This mala soup base is guaranteed to leave you gasping for an ice cold cup of coke, and extra gulps of air with the savoury and numbing nature of this soup base.

Prepare yourself for a mouth numbing, savoury and spicy adventure with this homemade hot pot recipe which is so easy to make, you’ll drop your pants in shock.

Recipe credit: Hot Pot Soup Base: Buy Pre-made or Make it Yourself! | The Woks of Life