Master Chashu Pork recipe with links to: Ramen noodles soft-boiled and marinated eggs (Ajitsuke Tamago) Soup (tare) (coming) Marinated bamboo shoots (coming) The extended lockdown this year has 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!…
Category: Pasta & Noodles
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…
Beef Rib Ragu with fresh pasta
This is my favourite “red” meat pasta sauce (if you must know I’m partial to a creamy vodka tomato sauce too but let’s not digress). The rich rib meat creates an unctuous layer for anything from silky fresh pasta, stuffed cannelloni, lasagne sauce, to filled pasta shapes and of course, with a steaming hot bowl…
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…
Ramen Noodles
Legit the closest I got to a ramen bar in NZ’s level 4 lockdown. Made Chashu Ramen for hubby’s 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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