For Chinese, this is a traditional dish most families would have at home. In northern China, Szechuan peppercorns would be added to give a unique spiciness that is at best described as a slight tingling sensation, to the more severe as ‘spins and needles’ on the tongue which means you can taste nothing for the next…
Category: Asian cuisine
Massaman Beef Curry
I don’t know about you, but I find that Monday dinners are the hardest to get on the table, fast. Coming home from a full day’s work after a relaxing weekend – it’s hard to get back into the routine and I’m always in a rush to prepare anything decent. What I’ve found to work…
Naan bread
J loves bread. Baguettes. Focaccia. Pizza bread. Chinese buns. Chinese pancake wraps. Naan bread is one of her favourite among this lot. When she was younger, her tolerance to spices are not that great so when we went for Indian meals she would often just eat the bread and not the meat and the sauce,…
Hundred flower chicken – 百花鸡 – Chinese New Year prawn cake
A hundred young chickens? Or a new species of chicken called ‘hundred flower’ that is being cooked here? Don’t be fooled. I’ll let you in on a secret: There is no chicken in this except the skin and the hero of the dish is prawn actually. I’m sure if you google this you will find…
Chinese Barbecued Pork and Buns (Char Siu Bao/叉烧包)
It went like this: You were about 13 and one afternoon your friends or cousins came over to play, and no one wanted the party to end. What to do for dinner, your parents wondered. There were no ”chinese take away” as such where you can order sweet and sour pork or beef with vegetables…
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