Recipe Archive : Chinese Misc

A Dish Made of Colors – Vegetarian Stir-Fried Corn A Dish Made of Colors – Vegetarian Stir-Fried Corn It is a vegetarian dish made of colors. Be it yellow, orange, green, lime and black, each ingredient is inexpensive and possibly is among the common leftovers in our fridge. ...
Amaranth Fish Potage Amaranth Fish Potage A Chinese-style soup, thickened by water chestnut powder, which can be prepared with or without stock. ...
Asparagus with Fake Fermented Bean Curd Sauce Asparagus with Fake Fermented Bean Curd Sauce The sauce in this recipe, though is an imitation, has both a cheesy feel and a fermented soy bean flavor thanks to a piece of cheese and a spoonful of miso paste. ...
Baby Tang Yuan or Glutinous Rice Balls in Boozy Sweet Soup Baby Tang Yuan or Glutinous Rice Balls in Boozy Sweet Soup Perhaps I should name this boozy dessert as Mock Fermented Glutinous Rice Wine with Rice Balls because I was using Japanese sake than the Chinese fermented wine (酒釀). ...
Baby Taro – a Traditional Food for Moon Festival Baby Taro – a Traditional Food for Moon Festival I want to make some noise here for the baby taros, a food supposedly to be included for celebrating the Mid Autumn Festival and is also good for serving as snack or dessert. ...
Braised Chinese Chestnuts Chicken in Cast Iron Dish Braised Chinese Chestnuts Chicken in Cast Iron Dish Depending on the amount you cook, this dish can be prepared in a cast iron dish or clay pot. Just make sure the amount of sauce in the cookware is enough to keep the meats from drying out. ...
Braised E-Fu Noodles with Straw Mushrooms Braised E-Fu Noodles with Straw Mushrooms Cooked by the very similar actions of stirring and turning, but emphasizing on reaching a critical moment that the sauce is precisely dried. ...
Egg Drop Soup Egg Drop Soup A traditional yet popular soup in China, with just two simple ingredients, namely egg and tomatoes and is quick to prepare. ...
Egg Dumplings in Oyster Sauce Egg Dumplings in Oyster Sauce With only four eggs, about 100g ground pork and a few sprigs of spring onions, I made a dozen of dumplings. ...
Fried Eggs with Tomatoes Fried Eggs with Tomatoes This is a lovely dish, colorful, delicious yet easy-to-make. ...
Hand-Pulled Chicken with Cucumber Hand-Pulled Chicken with Cucumber The Chinese way of cooking this hand-pulled chicken (手撕雞) is mostly done by boiling, poaching or steaming. I choose to steam them with julienned spring onion and ginger for added flavors. ...
Hawthorn Apple Tea Hawthorn Apple Tea Soothing and fragrant is this drink, not to mention the many health benefits of hawthorn. ...
Homemade Peppercorn Salt Homemade Peppercorn Salt A common ingredients for making many popular Chinese dishes, of which the notable numbing taste could be further complemented by other seasonings. ...
Homemade Soy Milk – Tricky yet Easy Homemade Soy Milk – Tricky yet Easy With the right tools, which complement each others, making soy milk at home can be easy though tricky. ...
Hot and Sour Potato Shreds Hot and Sour Potato Shreds These pale-looking, spaghetti-like thin strips are shreds from a potato, may I assure you. Cooked in Sichuan style, the potato here is neither crispy nor fluffy but is crunchy with a taste of spicy and sour. ...
How to Pan-Fry Tofu with Crust is Simple How to Pan-Fry Tofu with Crust is Simple We don't need plenty of oil to fry and yield a crisp golden crust on tofu. Nor do we need a non-stick pan to make the frying easy. ...
Lotus Seeds and a Sweet Soup Lotus Seeds and a Sweet Soup This Lotus Seed Tea recipe here perhaps is the easiest and most simple recipe to enjoy lotus seeds which has been valued for its calming properties. ...
Moo Shu Pork – with Cloud Ears and Golden Needle Vegetables Moo Shu Pork – with Cloud Ears and Golden Needle Vegetables It is something about the tree of osmanthus, which pronounces similar to Mo Shu. Because the scrambled egg in this dish is cooked to resemble osmanthus, thus the name. ...
Pickled Ginger in Natural Pink Pickled Ginger in Natural Pink A simple recipe on how to pickle baby ginger with only sugar and lemon juice. Recommend it as an appetizer or snack which for sure will come with no coloring, sweetener or any chemicals. ...
Poached Pears in Osmanthus and Ginger Drink Poached Pears in Osmanthus and Ginger Drink It is a sheer pleasure in making this dessert. With its package only half-opened, the flowery fragrance from the dried osmanthus already masked me in seconds. ...
Roasted Taro Chips with Five-Spice Powder Roasted Taro Chips with Five-Spice Powder Baked, these paper thin taro slices turned golden, crisp and aromatic in less than ten minutes. ...
Shrimp Casserole with Korean Sweet Potato Noodles (Dangmyeon) Shrimp Casserole with Korean Sweet Potato Noodles (Dangmyeon) In the traditional recipe of this 粉絲蝦煲, bean threads and shrimps are time-honored pairing. Here I have introduce dangmyeon, in place of bean threads, to the partnership. ...
Snowy Winter Melon Soup Snowy Winter Melon Soup A light and soothing soup which can be quickly cooked with different stock. ...
Stewed Beef Shank Stewed Beef Shank We may choose to stew the beef shank in advance and put in fridge for a couple of days before consumption. Serve as appetizer or main dish. ...
Stir-fried King Oyster Mushrooms with Sichuan Pickled Mustard Stir-fried King Oyster Mushrooms with Sichuan Pickled Mustard Just a few vegetarian ingredients plus a skillet (mine is a wok), they together make me this healthy 'fast food'. ...
Stir-Fried Turnip Cake (Lo Bak Gou): Leftovers go Lightly Stir-Fried Turnip Cake (Lo Bak Gou): Leftovers go Lightly I like how the lettuce has balanced the starchy turnip cake, reducing the calories in the dish. It is somewhat like a warm salad. ...
Stuffed Chili Peppers Stuffed Chili Peppers Stuff chili peppers (jalapeno type) with ground beef and white fish meat like sole or carp. Cook with pan-frying to seal their flavors and make them turn golden brown. ...
Stuffed Red Dates with Sticky Rice Balls Stuffed Red Dates with Sticky Rice Balls Making this sticky rice ball because we need no fillings for it. Instead, the rice ball takes the opposite role, acting as the filling for the pitted red date and giving this healthy dessert a bouncy kick. ...
Taro or Yam Rice with Chinese Sausage Taro or Yam Rice with Chinese Sausage Some called this Baked Taro Rice (焗芋頭飯 in Chinese). It doesn't mean that the dish is baked in oven but in effect the taro is steamed directly over rice in a pot (usually a clay pot). ...
Tea Eggs Tea Eggs Hard boiled eggs seasoned in soy sauce made from cinnamon, star anise, aged tangerine peel. Maybe consumed as snack or appetizer. ...
Tofu with Century Egg and Spring Onions Tofu with Century Egg and Spring Onions This is quick to prepare. Even I’m not a fast cook, I make it in about 10 to 15 minutes. It is also flexible; tofu may be sliced in the way you like; century egg may either be diced or mashed. ...
Tofu with Dried Shrimp Roes Tofu with Dried Shrimp Roes Cooking this umami-rich dish is as simple as toasting the dried shrimp roes and cooking them in a simple sauce with tofu. ...
White Fungus (Snow Ear Fungus) Sweet Soup with Papaya White Fungus (Snow Ear Fungus) Sweet Soup with Papaya This sweet soup is good for nourishing our respiratory systems and lungs. Having downed a bowl of this, my dry throat already soothed a bit. ...
Winter Melon and Dried Longan Drink Winter Melon and Dried Longan Drink I make this healing drinking look fancier here, but the way it is served will not degrade its cooling property for curbing the summer heat in our bodies. ...
Wontons in Soup Wontons in Soup Making these wontons can be fun particularly when you do it together with your friends or family members, wrap, chat, cheer . . . May choose to use ground pork or beef as wonton fillings. ...