Ms.Wanton

Authentic -- in a -- includes ground dried shrimp. So it took a few attempts to get to a version I was happy enough with to share with a lovely regular client for taste testing. PSA it was a little aged red miso and laoganma crispy chilli oil for the umami win. Now I wish I made a much bigger pot, cos we can't stop eating this at home. Will add to menu!
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Made with a little help from turmeric spice paste and using the recipe from by .
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Ever had in ? In it's gently poached along with white fish and ginger as a traditional dish for mothers, said to help boost milk supply.
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chicken soup with and is another Chinese post partum classic. Its ingredients help with cell repair and revival after trauma and blood loss.
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Nourishment boost aside, they are gorgeously warming for this bone chilling weather...
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These soups are shipping out to a few very spesh new Mums this week and next. In addition to a nourishment boost, I hope .wanton 's freezer and microwave friendly food saves them enough meal prep time to take a NAP!
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Love combining traditional recipes from the East, with absolutely FAB UK produce.
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🐟 Line caught from
🐓 Chicken thighs from
🌿 Chinese herbs from
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Just got back from 2+ glorious weeks in tropical Singapore to snow flurries in London. Can't quite face grocery shopping and cooking yet! Jan 2024 me is currently super thankful to Dec 2023 me for cooking up a .wanton that for this dinner was friendly AND friendly.
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Mum in law's curry, ie ie , and (in prototyping phase) a super fierce to force the chill out of my bones.
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The food we cook for you is what we eat at our own family table. I've just been updating the .wanton menu based on research and learnings while in Singapore, **ESPECIALLY TRADITIONAL CHINESE HEALING DISHES FOR **
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Please DM me for our latest menu so we can support you on your journey and efforts. And please tag a friend / relative here who might enjoy our homecooked food! Thank you and I look forward to feeding you soon!

We just announced our final drop for 2023! In the spirit of Christmas the original ms.wanton even greenlighted the sale of some Mama Soh fried rice, of which she is usually very possessive!
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We've also got some
Beef Rendang
Kerala chicken curry
Vegan chickpea masala
Creamy slow cooked Dal Bukhara
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Collection at N42EF this evening (Tue 19 Dec)
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Planning to grow this in the new year. Stay tuned!

Hello December, hello gentle dusting of snowflakes, hello not so gentle overnight frost. I'm admittedly not usually a big fan of lentils but when a lovely repeat client asked if I could make black dal, I dug deep into extended family intel, compared online recipes and cookbooks, and meditated on the one black dal that made me sit up and haunted me for a decade. I'm talking about dal Bukkhara by Chef Madan Jaiswal of the renowned Bukhara restaurant at ITC Maurya, New Delhi.
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Our homage seeks to light up your internal engine with chilli, ginger and garlic, and copious amounts of cream and butter. Fuel for a Christmas shopping blitz, that last work push before the holidays, or the perfect bowl as prep for hibernation.

French beans. Eggs. Salt. Intense comfort guaranteed. Fancy crispy onions optional.
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Some days this is all I can manage. I am thankful for its simplicity and abundance. This is in itself kindness on such days.
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Stunning produce from
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Spinach dal learned from my South Indian mum in law. So humble and fuss free, but so unexpectedly tasty and warming you can easily forget how much health and virtue it packs in (at least the way we make it!)
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Ancient Karen legend has it that if you consume enough of this instead of avocado toast and lattes, you will be able to afford a house. Results may vary. Best results achieved when consumed with low interest rates and a chunky cash infusion from the bank of Mum and Dad.
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In less fictional advice, works great as a filling vegan work lunch or comforting easy big bowl dinner as the days get colder and wetter.
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Part of our recent giant order to our New Mum repeat client. A great boost in protein, iron and vitamins!
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Ginger, sesame oil and chinese wine chicken. A traditional post birth recovery dish for new Mums as the ingredients are meant to "warm up" the body and promote blood circulation purge wind / gas.
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Whenever I ate this dish growing up, the ginger would be in slices or slivers or chunks. Which would be quite an unpleasant trick or treat if I bit into a chunk of ginger thinking it was chicken! GAGH! So when I make this dish, I mince the ginger so fine it MELTS into the gravy. Much more pleasant, and maximises consumption of the ginger's warming properties!
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Over the next few days I'll be cooking up a GIANT order of >30 boxes, 7 dishes, for a lovely repeat customer who has just given birth and is enjoying our freezer stash boxes so that she and her partner can focus more time on the wild ride that is the new parent gig!
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I'm delighted and thankful we found each other and I get to carry out ms.wanton's mission -- to combine my heritage cuisines with amazing British produce.
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I'll share more dish pics as they come off the stove!
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HALLO -- super from local hero , with a caramelly soy sauce. Growing up this was always on Mum's menu for special holidays and VIP dinner guests at home. Very delighted to cook it for a few very special Lunar New Year dinner customers during this festive season!
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Catered a Hakka thunder tea rice dinner party this weekend. Part of the fun is picking the "playlist" of accompaniments to go with the rice. I love this Indian track -- my mum in law's spiced with and then sparked up with . Great for on its own as well!
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Beautiful deep red plum tomatoes from our local hero greengrocer
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The menu from the .wanton over the weekend at , totally gorgeously glowed up here by :
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My cheeky dip with a hit of lime green . Very luxe no-work-needed crab from
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Rojak by -- love the addition of radishes!
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My 12hr with from and cooked with Balinese tamarind
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by , a coconutty vegetable with Peranakan tumeric rempah
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Wok fired by spiked with sambal tumis
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Double dessert action by ! Mango sago and pomelo soup, and coconut jelly with taro and black sesame paste. Perfection for a blazing day.
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SO. MUCH. FUN.