After living in Southeast Asia for nearly seven years, I go by the golden rule: If you see pandan on a menu, order it. A centuries-old culinary staple in Asia, pandan is a tropical shrub whose leaves ...

In this recipe, the dessert gets a Southeast Asian treatment, with ice cream made of coconut milk and fragrant pandan leaf, and rich, deeply flavoured caramel made with gula melaka. Gula melaka is ...

At a certain point during Carnival season, after the third or fourth or tenth king cake, you may be looking to break out of ...

Two bakeries, one iconic dessert. As a sprightly challenger reinvents the pandan cake, can it topple the years-long reign of ...

"The Pandan-monium." The recipe is below. Sheaf of frozen pandan leaves (or 2 T pandan extract), available at Thaijap Asian Market. Boil all ingrediates for 40 minutes or until syrup coats the ...

You will need 20 cocktail sticks for this recipe. In a pestle and mortar (or ... Take a large pan of boiling water and gently ease in the pandan leaves, blanching for 30 seconds and then remove ...

Jasmine rice flavoured with pandan leaf is a great accompaniment. Serve with the mango atchara. Nallaine Calvo, from Filippino food stall Kubo in Belfast, shared this recipe with me. Heat the ...

In the battle for Singapore’s pandan cake crown, one name has long reigned supreme. For years, Bengawan Solo has enticed tourists from far and wide to its brightly lit outlets that are a fixture ...