Red Yeast Rice Residue Chicken aka Hong Zao Ji (酒香红糟鸡)

INTRODUCTION

I do not know this red coloured chicken irks you or you feel that it looks “sexy”? Personally, I found that the glossy reddish colour chicken looks attractive and complement well with the fragrance of the red glutinous rice

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Chinese Gozabi Dessert: Flour Tea aka Mee Teh (古早味面茶)

INTRODUCTION

This is a niche recipe and those who have ever seen or eaten this drink before can try the recipe as it can hardly find in the stores already. Those who have never seen or heard about the tea

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Cheesy Sponge Cake aka Taiwanese Gochabi Sponge Cake with Cheese (台湾古早味芝士蛋糕)

Updated post on 12-9-2017

I have been baking this cake so many times subsequent to the issuance to this recipe. However, as the family do not like the cheesy flavour, hence i did modify here by omitting cheese or even

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Black Sugar Ginger Cubes (黑糖姜母砖块)

INTRODUCTION

This is a common item and i do not know if there are any Asian readers who does not know these sugar cubes. Well, it is always a hand gift item for friends who just return from Taiwan

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Chinese Glutinous Rice Sausage (糯米肠)

INTRODUCTION

All these while, I knew there is such a glutinous rice roll but I have never tasted it before. I knew traditionally, it was prepared using pig intestines and I do not think I will attempt to try it

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Chinese Minced Meat Noodles aka Zhajiangmian (炸酱面)

INTRODUCTION

For this recipe, you can choose your favourite noodles, your side ingredients or even your seasonings depending if you wanted it a sweeter or a savoury noodle dishes. This recipe is full of variations and when I stayed in

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Salted Egg Bitter Gourd (金沙苦瓜)

INTRODUCTION

This is a common dish in my house and is not invented by me. I first knew that bitter gourd blends well with salted eggs when my brother in law invited us to his house for dinner at least

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Taiwanese Crispy Fried Chicken Nuggets aka Yan Su Ji (台湾盐酥鸡)

INTRODUCTION

I do not think I need to introduce this Taiwanese fried chicken, yan su ji (盐酥鸡)or literally translated as crispy salt chicken . If you have been to Taiwan, I am sure you bound to try this snack which

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Taiwanese Traditional Mung Meat Minced Meat Moon Cake (台湾古早味月饼:绿豆椪)

INTRODUCTION

Many people believed that moon cakes are sweet, even overly sweet based on traditional moon cake perceptions. However, this is not true, not all moon cakes are sweet and one of the classic example of savoury moon cake is

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Chinese Scallion Pancake (葱油饼)

INTRODUCTION

If a cuisine is not famous, Wiki will not have a detail write up and Wiki have some interesting write up on the Chinese scallion pancake. Since Wiki uses the word scallion, I have also use the name scallion

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