Stir-fry
Stir Fried Noodles with Chicken and Crabsticks
Dried noodles are a staple at our house. I rely on them whenever I need to lay a quick and easy meal on the table after a long day. They really are the next best thing to fresh noodles, especially since I live some distance from the Asian market. They store well in the pantry [...]
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And so the fried rice saga continues… As I have mentioned in a recent post, Ro-Taro will be moving out to campus soon. One of his favorite dishes is fried rice and I am trying to provide him with a gamut of recipes to cook at the dorm kitchen. The challenge is to find suitable [...]
Culinary history was changed forever when someone long ago in China introduced rice to wok! The humble steamed rice, tossed with seasoning (normally soy sauce) and oil, seared with the intense heat from the frying pan, transforms into a dish worthy of kings. There was even an episode of Iron Chef where the Japanese chef [...]
One of the most common vegetables in Malaysia is the humble mung bean sprout known as nga choy in Cantonese and tau geh in Hokkien. The latter has since been inducted into the Malay language. Bean sprouts are very inexpensive and easily available. Malaysians love their taugeh and this ubiquitous vegetable is found in fried [...]
Treat your family to these homemade Sweet and Sour Meatballs combined with bell peppers, snow peas, and pineapples. They are delicious for sure!
Broccoli Beef is a very popular Chinese dish in the US. It makes sense as both broccoli and beef are easily available here. Broccoli can be found in the stores year round and prices do not change that much from one season to the next. Besides being a very tasty dish, it is also an [...]
What’s in a name of a dish? Many well known dishes are named after regions, a method of cooking, or ingredients used mainly as descriptors. Some are named in honor of emperors, kings, or famous persons. Others are puns on words giving the dish an auspicious meaning as in the case of the Chinese New [...]
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