Comment: Wonderful site! Love the recipes. Will certainly be visiting this page more often! Keep it up.

Comment: HI Ida : That was an impressive resume. Good luck on the website. Will return for your recipes.

Comment: Bewdy, Ida! Marvellously elegant site, and love the funky wok-wearing pose, niftily angled. Whatever you're nibbling and imbibing looks to be agreeing with you, so much look forward to your gastronomic guidance. My congrats to you and all concerned with the savvy site set-up!

Comment: I haven't looked at the rest of the page yet, Ides, but would love to be one of the first of your commenters, anyway. Love as always, Beebs

Comment: Ida Your recipe instructions are so clear and simple anybody will want to try Yum Yum Looking forward to more.

Comment: yOU'RE HOT! I'D LIKE TO FRY YOU UP AND COAT YOU IN CHAR SIU SAUCE...xx

Comment: Ida Your recipes are so clear and simple! Everybody will want to try Yum Yum .Looking forward to more recipes

Comment: Hey SIL! Congratulations - wonderful website! Look forward to your wonderful recipes. To anyone who tries your recipes - they are in for a real treat!

Comment: Congratulations on hitting the cyber highway with your wok and wit! Great effort. Recipe section is great. Fantastic space for future food reviews and tipoffs.

Comment: Ida, you rock You and your wild wild wok A wok star A culinary diva, by far

Comment: Thank you, everyone, for your lovely messages. Glad you are enjoying the website!

Comment: Hei Ida! Here's something for you think about - how about Virtual Food Tastings?! On a serious note, once this website is up and running, you could organise regular visitors to meet on a regular basis for a dine-out. Then they bring their friends, and soon more people will catch on to your site. PS: You should monitor randy visitors like IAN DARLINK - we don't want this turning into a porn site!!

Comment: You make a great food ambassador over there. Let people know about our Peranakan food.

Comment: Hi Ida Great website. Love Dowager's idea of organising for regular visitors to meet for a dine out. Great social networking opportunity. We could also go one better and do cooking classes etc. All the best. PS - yes pls monitor Ian dahlink - I hear he can get carried away :-)

Comment: This is great.

Comment: Wah lau, Ida, you vely pandai lah. Get hungry already after reading your recipe. Looking forward to more yummies and good luck. Cheers.

Comment: Fantastic site Ida! Hope to get you in QLD for some demos..Love your work xx

Comment: Wah lau, Ida, you vely pandai lah. Get hungry already after reading your recipe. Looking forward to more yummies and good luck. Cheers.

Comment: Congratulations on your website. Just love the picture and name of your site. Next time you make it to Brisbane, we must have a cook-in. No rock cakes and sponges, but maybe we can relive those home ec. cooking lessons (I still have the recipe book from Kuo Chuan Girls School albeit slightly stained and ragged) and there are some recipes we can rediscover. Keep adding more wonderful recipes. Cheers Su

Comment: This is great.

Comment: Interesting website! Congratulations Ida!

Comment: Hey Ida Well done. Looking forward to many great recipes as always from you. I will certainly be getting more and more ideas from you. Look forward to working with you again in the New Year. Take care

Comment: Ida, does bread feature in Singapore cuisine? Do other flour based foods like pastry occur in Straits cooking? Also, what would I ask for in a London food store, if I wanted to make that lovely firm jelly type dessert called aga-aga? Is it true that this comes from seaweed and is it beneficial to someone who lacks potassium and iodine in one's diet? What's your favourite dish? Cheers Ida - great website!

Comment: Hey Ida Well done. Looking forward to many great recipes as always from you. I will certainly be getting more and more ideas from you. Look forward to working with you again in the New Year. Take care

Comment: Hey Ida Well done. Looking forward to many great recipes as always from you. I will certainly be getting more and more ideas from you. Look forward to working with you again in the New Year. Take care

Comment: Hey Ida Well done. Looking forward to many great recipes as always from you. I will certainly be getting more and more ideas from you. Look forward to working with you again in the New Year. Take care

Comment: Wow, Ida, just logged on to your website and was impressed with the simplicity of the layout. You certainly have amassed quite a collection of recipes (no doubt with numerous anecdotes) over the years. The site's name, and the strategic wok placement, are real gems when it comes to quirky ideas! It brought back great memories of my time at Leader Newspapers. Until we next meet, long may you maintain your magnificent culinary reign - as you continue to Walk on the Wild Side! Rama G.

Comment: Hello Ida, How exciting it is to see your very beautifull website. You showed so much promise when I worked with you at Leader, and see, I knew all along you would make a success of anything you tried. So proud of you, my delightful friend.

Comment: Gerald, apologies for this late reply to your question of my last meal. My last meal will definitely be savoured over a few days. Starting with Belon oysters washed down with Bollinger, following will be an exquisite truffle soup. Then in no particular order, I’ll have Singapore laksa, chilli crab, Wagyu beef, Peking duck, tom yum soup and ayam buah keluak . For dessert, crème brulee, lychee gelato and sago gula melaka, and a smooth long black coffee. William Shakespeare (he can peel me a grape and recite a sonnet), Judi Dench (what a dame) and Alan Rickman and his sexy voice will dine with me! Check this website for a book review on My Last Supper.

Comment: Hi Ida Lovely recipes Do you have medicinal recipes to ease cold and flu symptoms???

Comment: Hi Gerry In answer to your question about bread and Singaporean cuisine, I would say it does feature widely in many forms. Bread and chilli crab, yum! Bread in the form of steamed buns with delectable fillings like roast pork and chicken, double yum. What about Indian breads, like roti prata, roti chanai, yum yum yum! Re agar agar, it does come from seaweed, which can only be beneficial to your health. Try getting it in powdered form from Asian grocers in London. If anyone else can help, please post a message. Bon Appetit!

Comment: Hi Ravinder Thank you for your comments. Nothing beats a hot curry for cold and flu symptoms. Try my best chicken curry recipe. Hope it helps.

Comment: Ida, Love the site and your fun and quirky style. I'll be trying the Crunchy Pork Noodle Balls tonight. Francis

Comment: Hi Ida! Great site. See you in Singapore in July!

Comment: Great to see how well you are continuing to do, Ida. Your taste in food of all kinds has always been impeccable and unique. Warmest greetings

Comment: Love your picture ! and the web page layout looks great. The photo gallery too ! Keep up the good work !!

Comment: Hey Ida The Photos of Broadmeadows look great. We should hit the road and do a tour together. take care until next time. Kath

Comment: Afternoon Ida Do you know of any reasonable Malaysian restaurants around the Western suburbs - we used to go to this place called Laksa King in Flemington but the last visit there was very dissapointing - new management arrogant owner and i certainly will not be going there again

Comment: Hi Jackson. Look forward to meeting up in Singapore and sampling all the scrumptious food.

Comment: Hi Peter Koh Thanks for your message. How about telling us where you like to eat in the US?

Comment: Kathy, my friend and co-demonstrator, we should organise a cooking roadshow around Australia. What do you think?

Comment: Ravinder, I will certainly follow up your unfortunate Laksa King experience. If anyone knows of good Malaysian restaurants in the Western suburbs of Melbourne, please let us know. Thanks and Bon Appetit!

Comment: Hi gourmets and friends. Check out my new Cooking Tips section. If you have any questions on food and cooking, ask me and I'll my best to answer them, If you'd like to share some cooking tips, please post them on the website. The most creative tip will win a prize! Bon Appetit!