Growing Up Is a Trap: The Cookbook

Subject to the current exchange rate approximately SGD$26 - USD$19 147 beginner-proof recipes for people whose cooking currently peaks at instant noodles. Cook for tonight, or batch a freezer full.

Nobody teaches you how to feed yourself. You leave home knowing the Krebs cycle and not how to tell whether the chicken is cooked.

So this starts at zero — plain rice, boiled eggs, noodles, greens — and builds from there through 147 recipes that are all sure winners. Iconic classics or genuine viral hits; never an experiment being tried out on you. Every card carries a How Easy rating, colour doodles showing each step, and two ingredient columns: Tonight for one meal now, Batch it for a freezer full.

Mostly Asian favourites, cheap everyday ingredients from any supermarket or wet market, and a clear “it's cooked when…” cue on every piece of meat, fish and seafood. So you never have to wonder again.

What’s inside

• Kitchen Basics first — rice, eggs, noodles, greens, for absolute beginners

• Chapters for the appliances you own: rice cooker, air-fryer, steamer, one pan

• Lunchbox Heroes, Big-Batch Heroes, and Soups, Stews & Congee

• Hawker classics at home, plus Sauces, Sambals & Dips and Something Sweet

• Local names & pantry guide, halal swaps, metric + rice-cooker cups, Cook-It-Safe page, A–Z index

Who it’s for

Anyone who can barely cook and is tired of delivery, sad sandwiches and the same three meals.