This is a traditional dish from the South China provinces, where fast cooking brings out flavours and aims to maintain the nutrients of ingredients. Kai lann tastes similar to broccoli. Here’s a quick recipe: Rinse the vegetables (these are from The Fresh Grower, and I hardly needed to pick off any tough leaves). Using a…
Category: Asian cuisine
Chinese Roast Pork with crispy crackling
The closest chinese roast meat shop is 30 mins of driving away. To get our roast pork fix, we have to plan ahead and go on weekends. There has to be a better way, I thought to myself. So I decided that I will make my own! Ingredients: 2kg pork belly 3 tablespoon five spice…
Vietnamese Beef Pho (broth recipe)
We are a pho-loving family. I don’t think there is ever a time we would reject one – hottest day of the year maybe, but it rarely gets extreme here in Auckland. Pho is the best antidote to the coldness of a crisp Autumn night. Squeeze of lime, tears of vietnamese mint, rings of picked…
Authentic Bánh Mì – Vietnamese Sandwich recipe
On our recent trip to Melbourne, Australia, we came across many bakeries and stores selling traditional Vietnamese sandwiches – Bánh Mì. These are the result of French and Vietnamese cuisines coming together, and boy, what a glorious effort. Bánh mì sandwiches are different to the normal western sandwiches. The bread is crunchy on the outside…
Traditional Hong Kong street food – ‘Bubble Waffle’ (雞蛋仔)
Of all the things I miss of Hong Kong since moving to NZ, 8 out of 10 things are food related. Some of them I have been able to recreate, like the desserts, claypot rice, combination coffee and tea ‘Yin Yeung’ and appetisers such as barbecue pork and cold cuts. One special dish, has eluded…
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