How To Make Chinese Cold Noodles
Whenever the weather becomes warmer, I feel like eating lighter and more refreshing dishes. After making zaru soba and sampling two delicious cold appetisers (five-spiced beef salad and spicy potato …
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How To Make Congee With Pork & 1000 Year Old Egg
I’ve always loved my mother’s congee. She makes it very simply, mostly with pork or chicken and shreds of dried scallop. I also had congee for breakfast every day on …
How To Make Chinese Tofu With Dried Scallops & Mushrooms
Tofu is so healthy and versatile. We had it a lot at home when I was growing up, and my mother loves cooking with it. Here’s another of those home-style …
How To Make Sichuan Dan Dan Mian
Reading Eileen Wen Mooney’s Beijing Eats a short while ago inspired me to start cooking more Chinese food. I chose to start with dan dan mian, a Sichuan snack dish …
What is Sichuan Hot Pot?
In earlier posts, I’ve described how my family and I prepare hot pot at home in How To Make Chinese Hot Pot, and what dipping sauces to use in How …
Cantonese Home Cooking
My mother and I haven’t lived together for many years now, so I always look forward to her home-cooked meals. They remind me of my childhood, so when we see …
How To Make Sichuan Wontons
Being Cantonese and with a preference for more delicate, subtle flavours, my repertoire of Sichuan dishes is miniscule (dan dan mian, Sichuan hot pot), although I do like to eat …
How To Make Chinese Egg With Mince Meat
This is another of those precious hand-written recipes that my mother sent me when I started living in Beijing in 1996. She was worried I’d go hungry eating northern Chinese …
How To Make Chinese Tofu With 1000 Year Old Egg
On our traveleating trip to Hong Kong, Macau and Beijing last October, I was reminded of how much I enjoy the unique taste of thousand year old egg (if you …
How To Make Chinese Spring Rolls
Spring rolls traditionally mark the coming of spring in China, although they are eaten all year round. I grew up on spring rolls in my parents’ restaurants in Bonn, Germany, …