This is a classic Chinese-style steaming for fish. You can use this recipe for all other large white-fleshed fish like seabass, or pomfret. Serving: 2 persons Ingredients: 1 large sea bream, descaled and gutted 2 cloves of garlic, shelled…
I was thrilled to have found these in Belgium, as they are hardly seen even back home. I mentioned before the large variety of tofu and one of them is the hard tofu, called tauguah in Hokkien. While you have…
English: Red cargo rice Mandarin Chinese: 红糙米 The white rice that most people know are “dead rice”, meaning that the outermost layers have been removed and what is left is the core of the seeds. Brown rice are “living…
Scientific name: Glebionis coronarium Japanese: Shungiku 春菊 Korean: Sukgat 쑥갓 Tibetan: Skalzang སྐལ་བཟང་ Mandarin Chinese: Tonggao 茼蒿 Hokkien/Teochew: Dang-o 茼蒿, Pabor-tsai 打某菜 Cantonese: Tongho 茼蒿 Thai: Pak Thang-o ผักตั้งโอ๋ Greek: Mantilida μαντηλίδα Dang-o or Shungiku features heavily in hotpots, a…
This is a really easy recipe that is perfect for that cold windy evening when you need something hot and comfortable but is extremely healthy. All you need is a good quality silken tofu and a two-tier bamboo steaming…
Most people think there is only one kind of tofu, namely, tofu. The texture of tofu can ranged from very soft, curd-like to very hard and bouncy. In Chinese, the word “doufu” refers only to the curd-like ones. Even…
This is my first post for the section of medicinal cuisine. Medicinal cuisine (药膳) is a branch of Chinese cuisine, that makes use of medicinal herbs and roots in the preparation of every food: that is to say, to consume these…
Literally translated as “olive vegetables”, one is often mistakenly informed that this Teochew specialty are “leaves of the Chinese relative of the olive tree”. In fact, kana-tsai is composed mainly of mustard leaves. Its history dates back to the Tang…
I think I must be the first person to write down this recipe in a western language. Originally from Chaozhou (Teochew) region of the Guangdong (Canton) province, Teochew fish dumplings are not well-known in the rest of China but are…
This is my absolutely favourite food in the whole wide world. Readily available in Singapore, this dish is hard to replicate due to the lack of the fresh ingredients you would otherwise find in all food markets on the…
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