Turnip cake (lo bak gou / 蘿蔔糕) brings back the fond memory of my childhood seeping a pot of bottomless Pu’er tea with my father in the dim sum house every Sunday morning. Besides the barbecue pork bun, shrimp dumpling, and Shumai, pan-fried turnip cake is the dim sum I always order whenever the lady …
Who doesn’t like the authentic peanut sauce made from scratch? I am referring the umami-rich peanut sauce for satay. This Asian peanut sauce is so versatile that besides for satay, can be used as the gravy for noodles, making Indonesian style salad (Gado-Gado) and even as the sauce for tacos and wraps. The sauce is …
I want to share how to prepare the Malaysian chicken satay in the article. The best satay is from a tiny town called Kajang in Malaysia. Due to its popularity, many satay stores in other cities tried to piggyback on the name and called their satay ‘Kajang satay’ to attract customers. The origin of Satay …
Dan Dan Noodles (担担面) is the new inclusion into the hot and numbing Sichuan dishes that I obsessed lately. It is a dry noodle dish with a strong savory flavor as a result of the combination of Sichuan peppercorn, chili oil, minced pork, vinegar and siumiyacai (green mustard pickle), perfect as a side dish or …
In this article, I want to share with you the Chinese green beans recipe called dry-fried green bean 干煸四季豆 with minced meat, a traditional Sichuan cuisine. I can assure you that the taste is utterly different from blanching, sautéing or green beans for a salad. Note: This post may contain affiliate links. Please read my disclosure for more info. …
You must have tried the famous Chinese dish General Tso’s chicken 左宗棠鸡 if you are in America. It is perhaps the most popular dish that serves in American Chinese restaurants. I have tested the recipe from changing the ingredients to tweaking the ratio of each component in search of the best General Tso’s chicken. Finally, …
Egg drop soup recipe is the easiest Chinese soup recipe to prepare. Chinese restaurants usually have high-quality soup stock as the base of the soup. However, we do not have this luxury at home. But there is a workaround way. In this article, I want to share with you how I prepare egg drop soup …
This easy Mapo Tofu recipe 麻婆豆腐 has the bursting and mouth-numbing flavor that you must try. Mapo tofu is such a favorite dish due to its simplicity in preparation but offers the flavor of the complex interplay of spices and flavor. I love this recipe as I can enjoy the kick-in-the-tongue sensation and the specific …
This is my family’s egg tofu recipe with minced meat. This recipe is unlikely a familiar dish for non-Chinese, as you may not find this in Chinese restaurants outside Asia. Many of us are familiar with wonton noodles, General Tso’s chicken, and dan dan noodles. Those are the Chinese dishes regularly featured on the menu. …
This easy fried chicken recipe is adapted from the cookbook written by a respectable Chinese chef Mr. Pang Wah who was the executive chef of a top Chinese restaurant in Kuala Lumpur in the seventies. His combination of Chinese five spices and curry powder for fried chicken was an unprecedented attempt. The result is the …