A snack review blog
Hi, my name is Shu Shu and I love myself a snack! Anything can be a snack, but not all snacks are made equal. My Mouth is Lonely is a snack review blog where I document my snacking adventures and food-related musings.
Latest Posts
- Sugar and spam
Hi friends, it’s been a while, a full year. Hope you’re well. A few nights ago, I watched a Mikey Chen video on YouTube where he demonstrated how he likes to cook spam fried rice. I was intrigued by his addition of sugar. He covered his slices of spam in… Read more: Sugar and spam - Nian Gao – Don’t yuck my yum
As I am writing this, we are nearing the end of Lunar New Year celebrations. A very festive period for many people in Asia, Lunar New Year is when we get together with our families and loved ones to enjoy good food and company while we celebrate a new year.… Read more: Nian Gao – Don’t yuck my yum - What’s the deal with Caramilk?
When I was in primary school, my dad went through a huge white chocolate phase. My memory tells me he would buy like 6 slabs of the MilkyBar white chocolate and the cookies and cream version every time he did the groceries. It probably wasn’t that much in real life.… Read more: What’s the deal with Caramilk? - The King of Chunky Choc Chip Cookies?
When I was at uni, I would buy Coles’ Ultimate Choc Chip Cookies whenever I needed to pull an all-nighter to write an essay. I don’t think they actually helped with my essays but I loved them all the same. I loved the big chocolate chunks and the hits of… Read more: The King of Chunky Choc Chip Cookies? - Three tips for making carbonara
I find the idea of making carbonara at home a bit intimidating. I think it’s because you only have a short amount of time to get the sauce right. The risk of scrambling the egg mixture is very high. There’s also nowhere to hide if you mess up because it’s… Read more: Three tips for making carbonara - My favourite salted duck egg snack
The salted duck egg trend has been around for a couple of years now but for a lot of us who grew up in Asian households, we’ve had it since we were kids. There are actually a lot of ways to cook with salted duck egg: it can be sauteed… Read more: My favourite salted duck egg snack - Pork talk: I made my first BLT
As a few of you might know, I’ve started eating pork this year after a long hiatus, and it’s been really fun! Cheese boards, for example, are more interesting now because there’s ham and salami. One thing a lot of people have said to me is they could never give… Read more: Pork talk: I made my first BLT - Snack Chat: Naked Asian Grocer
One of the things I really miss doing, especially in lockdown, is going to an Asian grocer. I miss being able to leisurely walk up and down each aisle to see what’s on the shelves. Sometimes you find a new snack to try. Other times you see a type of… Read more: Snack Chat: Naked Asian Grocer - Snack Chat: Whittaker’s Coconut Block
I live in Melbourne Australia, and as I currently write this, we’re in our 6th lockdown. Rather fortuitously, my husband Liam and I went to the supermarket the day before lockdown. We were both hungry and my blood sugar had dipped so every chip, chocolate, ice cream, nut spread, dip… Read more: Snack Chat: Whittaker’s Coconut Block