Leek Stir Fried With Roast Pork (大蒜烧肉)

INTRODUCTION

This dish looks like a Chinese New Year dish since both leek and roast pork only commonly appeared during Chinese New Year seasons.. It may be the case traditionally but since now we can get leeks and roast pork

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Chinese Char Siu and Prawn Omelette aka Egg Fu Rong or Egg Fooyoong (芙蓉蛋)

INTRODUCTION

This is a very common old-fashioned Chinese restaurant egg dish and I am sure that many readers should know about this dish. It is a cheaper dish  when compare to meat dish and usually the price is almost the

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Classic Chinese Comfort Food–Sichuan Vegetable Minced Meat (榨菜肉丝)

INTRODUCTION

This is another dish that I grew up eating..In addition to the salted vegetables minced pork dish, this is another favourite dish that I always looked forward to eating when I came back from school .. I ate it

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Classic Chinese Comfort Food – Anchovies Onion (古早味江鱼仔炒大葱)

INTRODUCTION

When I was a kid, my daily breakfast was rice porridge without fail. I had this porridge breakfast until the day I left my house for university in Kuala Lumpur. No cakes, no breads or even steamed buns like

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Classic Iconic Thai Prawn Soup–Tom Yum Goong (ต้มยำกุ้ง 冬荫功)

INTRODUCTION

I do not think i need much introduction to this iconic Thai Soup, Tom Yum soup.. As usual, I liked to refer to Wiki’s definition on worldwide famous cuisines such that the recipe does not deviate much from the

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Chinese Takeaway Recipe: Honey Sesame Chicken (蜂蜜芝麻鸡)

INTRODUCTION

If there are Western bloggers that issued Chinese recipes, it is always all those common dishes in the takeaway menu of the Chinese restaurants in their countries. Among the popular dishes are sweet and sour pork, General Tso chicken,

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Chinese Chaozhou Appetizer: Pig Trotter Jelly aka Ter Ka Tang (潮汕冷盘:猪脚冻)

INTRODUCTION

I am unsure if you have seen this Chinese traditional cold cut appetizer. You may have seen this in some Teochew restaurants or you may have accidentally found something like this in the container of overnight braised pig trotter

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Famous Indian Cuisines : Butter Chicken aka Murgh Makhani( 印度奶油鸡 मुर्ग़ मक्खनी)

INTRODUCTION

Singapore and Malaysia has a sizeable Indian population and I was shocked that I have never heard of this well known Indian dishes..May be I am not that exposed as yet. When members in an Australian Facebook Group posted

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Homemade Salted Egg Yolk Powder (家居自制金莎粉, 咸蛋黄粉)

INTRODUCTION

Since the beginning of this year, there are readers who had been asking me if my well liked salted egg yolk cookies can be substituted with salted egg yolk powder sold at the stores. If you are interested in

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Crispy Golden Yam Ring (佛钵飘香)

INTRODUCTION

I have failed this recipe once two years ago, the reason being I make it too big and I have difficulty to deep fry the yam ring until crispy. It was a mess and since then, I did not

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