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Taobao product recommendation – Smoking gun food smoker

October 2, 2020 by yenkai Leave a Comment

Smoked food tastes good. We all know this because everybody loves BBQ and grilled food right? Health concerns aside, we want to eat smoked food once in a while. Most of us don’t have the luxury of using a smoker at home (large cabinet with wood burning at the bottom, or stove top smoker which … [Read more…]

Posted in: Eat/Drink, Spend-thrift Tagged: Cook at home!, Product Recommendation, Review, Taobao

Bring the cafe home

May 3, 2020 by yenkai Leave a Comment

A cafe is probably the most ubiquitous eatery worldwide. True, it is still more a Western concept, but it seems to gain foothold easily in any part of the world. Somehow, it manages to become the hip place to hangout, host a meeting, work, study, settle your meals or just to be by yourself. Practically … [Read more…]

Posted in: Eat/Drink, Spend-thrift Tagged: Coffee, Cook at home!

Battle of the online Marketplaces

April 29, 2020 by yenkai Leave a Comment

The online marketplaces have seen a boom in their sales volume recently, thanks to the Circuit Breaker measure that has resulted in home-bound people doing much more shopping online than in brick-and-mortar shops. You may not have noticed, but I’ve seen the online sellers or merchants swing from panic selling to now hiking prices (beer … [Read more…]

Posted in: Eat/Drink, Spend-thrift Tagged: Cook at home!, Groceries, Review

Battle of the Supermarkets

April 21, 2020 by yenkai Leave a Comment

Not sure if you feel the same, but once taken-for-granted, now the Supermarket has become almost a sacred place. You need to queue to get in, and, I’m not sure about you, once inside, I don’t just hurriedly get the stuff in my groceries list. I would scan the shelves to see if there is … [Read more…]

Posted in: Eat/Drink, Spend-thrift Tagged: Cook at home!, Groceries, Review

Stay at home, cook at home!

April 4, 2020 by yenkai Leave a Comment

It was almost exactly 4 years ago when i said everyone must learn to cook. In some ways, the predictions i made back then came through. We have actually arrived at that point in time when people started getting worried about food security. If you hardly cooked before this, now is a great time to … [Read more…]

Posted in: Eat/Drink, Spend-thrift Tagged: Cook at home!, Recipe

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Yen Kai the spend-thrifter loves to eat, drink, travel and spend save money. He's always pondering on ideas to solve the little problems of everyday living (what to eat, where to go, what to buy, how to save money etc.) and shares them here on this blog.

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