Components that make up this recipe: The extended lockdowns in previous years have got us longing for our favourite melt-in-your-mouth Chashu pork belly ramen. Thick, deep broth, tender braised pork belly with al dente home made ramen egg noodles…. Yum! It’s also easier than you might think and with all this time at home, it’s…
Category: Asian cuisine
Hong Kong Wonton Soup
Another silver lining of lockdown is that I’ve finally nailed the recipe to make a HK style wonton soup. These wontons are best described as bouncy balls of meat, wrapped with silky thin egg dough, swimming in the most fragrant, HK memory-evoking smell. The bounce is a result of a prolonged kneading, done easily with…
Pickled Mustard Greens and Pork Noodle Soup 酸菜肉絲麵
My current favourite lockdown activity is going through restaurant menus and picking what I should cook next. We are going for dishes that I had not bothered with previously, because the Chinese restaurant nearby my city office does it superbly. Since we haven’t been to the CBD for 74 days now it’s far too long…
Aromatic chilli oil
What did you do on Sundays as a kid?My Sunday routine, for as long as I can remember, was going to yum cha with my family and grandma after church. There were favourites for each of us: beef mince balls and steamed rice rolls for me especially, but siu mai (steamed pork, prawns and mushroom)…
Ramen Noodles
Legit the closest I got to a ramen bar in NZ’s level 4 lockdown. Made Chashu Ramen for a birthday and it was as though we went for a holiday in Japan. Springy noodles with the distinctly yellow tones and alkaline smelly cooking water, these are close to the ones in ramen restaurants. I had…
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