Chashu Pork Ramen with soft-boiled egg


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…

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 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…

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…