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. ...
Celery and Egg Shreds with Sour Miso Sauce
Only recently I try to shred celery like this. Doing such is because I want it to assemble well with the fried egg. I make this twice, once serving hot and once cold. Both of them do not disappoint me. ...
Chinese Cabbage with Ham and Cream Sauce
This is a popular dish of Beijing cuisine, which in Chinese is called 腿茸奶油津白. When preparing this at home, I often apply my own preference - a less oil-laden version. ...
Double Cooked Pork Slices
This is a famous dish of the Sichuan cuisine. Interestingly, I have never found one Shanghainese restaurant here in Hong Kong not listing this dish on their menu. ...
Dried Squid in Chili Paste – Korean Style
The dried squids and Korean chili paste are among the edibles I brought back from my last visit to Seoul. With some grated fresh garlic, I have them stir fried into an appetizer, a spicy small eat. ...
Fried Ground Pork on Bean Threads
Originated from Sichuan, this dish is also nicknamed as Ants on a Tree because it resembles several big classes of ants climbing up a tree (ants are ground pork, tree is bean threads). ...
Fuzzy Melon in Dried Shrimp and Bean Threads
A simple and inexpensive dish made from fuzzy melon and bean threads; it is also a recipe of low calories that can be prepared in just a couple of minutes. ...
Homemade XO Sauce with Cold Tofu
The XO sauce is actually a chili sauce, recreated by adding dried shrimps, dried scallops and shrimp paste, making an average hot sauce filled with intense flavors and unami. ...
Hot and Sour Cabbage, Sichuan Style
This stir-fried dish tastes very similar to Sichuan pickled cabbage, but can be cooked in wok in just a couple of minutes. ...
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. ...
Lettuce Wraps – Chinese Style
Stir fry ground pork with finely chopped dried oysters and water chestnuts. This is one of the (if not the most) popular Chinese styles of preparing lettuce wraps. ...
Mapo Tofu
Typical of the Sichuan (四川) cuisine, mapo tofu (麻婆豆腐) is also a dish that delivers the numbing and spicy flavors. ...
Singaporean Fried Rice Noodles
In effect, this is a popular Hong Kong dish of thin rice noodles stir-fried with curry powder, bean sprouts, barbecued pork (char siu), and vegetables. ...
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). ...
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. ...