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: Recipes – Pork
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…
Savoury doughnuts with salmon, bacon, corn, chives and cream cheese filling
(See how fluffy this tester is!) Crispy bacon, cream cheese and salmon donuts A savoury twist to one of our favourite snacks, these pillowy fluffy donuts are as scrumptious as their sweet counterparts. Filled with a crispy bacon, corn, chives and whipped cream cheese mousse, these moreish bites are fun to eat. Complete with more…
Squid Ink Garganelli in a Vodka Tomato Creamy Sauce
A throw-together lunch, started cooking at 2.18pm, plated at 2.32pm. Shot at 2.38pm, ate at 2.50pm. It doesn’t get any faster than this!! I first tried vodka tomato cream sauce in a Te Anau restaurant, many many years ago. I remember it was the first time I was hit with this obsession to learn how…
Sweet and sour pork (咕噜肉)
The most iconic of all cantonese cuisine would have to be sweet and sour pork 咕噜肉. I dare say there would be a Chinese takeaway shop in any town any city, selling a variant of this. The Hong Kong version I grew up with is sweet and tangy, with thick pieces of meat thinly coated…
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