Singapore-Style Soft-Cooked Eggs With Kaya Jam and Toast

One of Singapore's staple breakfasts: kaya toast served with soft boiled eggs and strong coffee sweetened with sugar and evaporated milk.

Coconut-Palm Sugar Ice Cream

Palm sugar lends a soft caramel flavor with a tinge of butterscotch that makes this ice cream special. Add coconut milk, eggs, and pandan to the team and we've got a combination of flavors that South East Asians have enjoyed for ages.

Sangkhaya (Thai Coconut Custard Dip)

Serve this sweet, creamy pandan-flavored custard as you would fondue: at a table with good friends and plenty of bread cubes.

Cocada (Coconut Bark)

This cocada is gooey and even custardy, with a caramelized, chewy surface and bottom and the unmistakable fleshy crunch of coconut.

Islas Flotantes de Coco (Coconut Floating Islands)

Though some recipes call for baking the meringues and then slipping them into the custard, I follow the more traditional route and poach them. A bite reveals that these islands are rather more like clouds.

Steamed Pumpkin Custard

This is a streamlined version of the famous Thai steamed pumpkin custard -- you know, the kind where you steam a whole pumpkin along with the custard filling, the kind that isn't as easy to make as many recipes want you to think (I'll talk more about this in due time). You get pretty much the same taste out of it without nearly as much fuss. This appeals to a lazy person like me who's always looking for a faster, easier way to do everything.

Yam Khai Dao (Thai Fried Egg Salad)

Dig into this Thai salad of crispy, runny fried eggs with fresh herbs, aromatics, and a sour-spicy dressing.

Naomi Duguid's Golden Egg Curry

Eggs and tomato sauce seem to pop up everywhere these days—it seems most chefs have their own version of eggs in purgatory or else shakshuka somewhere in their repertoire. But the Golden Egg Curry in Naomi Duguid's Burma, is decidedly different. The eggs are hard-boiled, peeled, and then fried in turmeric-laced peanut oil. The tomato sauce is sparse but redolent of sautéed shallots, garlic, and chiles, leaving the eggs to take center stage. There may not be a runny yolk to mop up, but the golden...

Toasted Coconut Eggnog

A tropical spin on eggnog with allspice and coconut milk.

Coconut Rice (fluffy, not gluey!)

Simple, fluffy coconut rice! Fantastic side with any South East Asian food - Thai, Malaysia, Vietnamese - as well as Caribbean and tropical foods.