
Charmaine Mok
Food and Wine Editor at South China Morning Post
Food & Wine Editor at @scmplifestyle • Previously Content Director at @tatlerdininghk • Pawrent of Natto & Mochi 😸😺 • Opinions are my own 💁🏻♀️
Articles
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2 weeks ago |
scmp.com | Charmaine Mok
I’m the first person to refuse dessert at the end of a meal and, like many Asians, consider “not too sweet” the finest compliment I can bestow upon a cake or its brethren. So many found it odd that I spent some time in Hokkaido recently with the main aim of attending a sweets festival. Japan’s National Confectionery Exposition has been held since 1911 to promote the country’s sweets trade. It occurs once every four years but, owing to the pandemic, was cancelled in 2021 and last held in 2017.
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4 weeks ago |
scmp.com | Charmaine Mok
If you are chronically online like I am, then it is likely that in the past month or so you have been fed the shenanigans of Darshen and Dr Samuel, two Singaporean content creators who have gone viral for their adorable dynamic.
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1 month ago |
msn.com | Charmaine Mok
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1 month ago |
scmp.com | Charmaine Mok
As a child of the 90s, I distinctly remember cottage cheese being the frumpiest of foods, peddled as a miracle ingredient for those on restrictive Weight Watchers-style diets. High in protein and low in salt and fat, it was often suggested as an accompaniment to that other ghastly anti-gourmet product: rice cakes.
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1 month ago |
scmp.com | Charmaine Mok
When chef Son Jong-won of Seoul’s one-Michelin-star Eatanic Garden was asked recently about the one ingredient he felt could be better represented outside Korea, he did not hesitate. “If you go to Italy, you know that olive oil is a staple that represents the country,” he says.
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