This is the first of my yong tau fu recipes: Ampang Yong Tau Fu 安邦酿豆腐. Ampang Yong Tau Fu is a twist of the traditional Hakka dish, by serving freshly fried pieces of yong tau fu in a sticky beanpaste sauce….
English: Yuzu Scientific name: Citrus ichangensis × C. reticulata Japanese: yuzu ユズ/柚子 Chinese: xiangcheng 香橙, luohancheng 羅漢橙/罗汉橙， ribenyou 日本柚 Korean: yuja 유자/柚子 Yuzu is a species of citrus fruit, used extensively in Japanese cuisine. Physically, it looks very much like…
Yong Tau Fu 酿豆腐 is the best known dish in the Hakka cuisine. It is a unique Chinese dish that is made of pork, fish, tofu, and a variety of soy products and vegetables. Today, I am going to teach you…
Move over, MSG! Here comes the second generation of taste explosion: Taste No.5 Umami Dust What is Taste No.5 Umami Dust? Available in tube and dust forms, Taste No.5 is the re-creation of flavour enhancements, that hopefully will topple the bad…
It was Chinese New Year last month and I was yearning for some traditional Teochew New Year goodies. I swear these Teochew meatrolls came to me in a dream and begged me to make them. So I did. Traditionally a…
English: velvet pioppini, poplar mushroom, black poplar mushroom, chestnut mushroom Scientific name: Agrocybe aegerita / Agrocybe cylindracea / Pholiota aegerita Chinese: 茶树菇 / 茶樹菇, 茶薪菇, 柳松菇, 油茶菇, 神菇 Japanese: 占地 (シメジ) shimeji Velvet pioppini is called ’Cha Shu Gu’ 茶树菇…
Rumour has it that this is a dish which you can ONLY find in Singapore. Rather than having empirical proof, it is more by deduction that one comes to such a conclusion: One, Indians in India do not eat…
English: Okra/Okro, lady’s fingers, bhindi, gumbo Scientific name: Abelmoschus esculentus Moench Nigerian Igbo: ọkwurụ Bantu: kingombo Portuguese: quiabo Spanish: quimbombó, guigambó French: gombo Arabic: bamia Hindi: bhindi Bengali: dherosh Tamil: vendai kai Bahasa melayu: Bendi Thai: กระเจี๊ยบเขียว Vietnamese: Đậu bắp…
Abalone is considered a delicacy in Chinese cuisines. The word ’delicacy’ in the language is composed of the four characters 山珍海味, which literally mean ’rarities of the mountains and tastes of the seas’, as I have presented in the…
Dear friends, in case you are wondering whether I practice what I preach, here is an example of what I have been making for myself to prepare for the impending autumn. As discussed in the previous post (Autumn is coming….
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