Hot and sour soup is typically found in northern Chinese restaurants which has a very different style compared with southern Chinese cuisine. The heat from the ginger warms you up and I love the balance of savoury, sour and heat. Forget about takeout, make it at home. Makes 6-8 servings Ingredients ½ oz dried black … Read More
While living in San Francisco, we often had these sweet, spicy and saucy chicken wings at San Tung restaurant and they were the best! It is one of our favourite restaurants to go to when we visit and we did attempt to go during our last visit in the spring but to our disappointment, they … Read More
This childhood favourite is sure to bring back sweet memories. My mom used to make this a lot because it was quick, simple and inexpensive. As kids, we would fight over the last bits in the dish when the winner would get to add a final scoop of rice to soak up all the bits … Read More
This popular restaurant soup is way easier to make at home than you think. Using simple ingredients, this savoury beef soup will be ready in about ten minutes. West Lake soup was named after the lake in China because the colours in the soup were reflective of the scenery. This recipe is very flexible. You … Read More
This simple recipe for black bean beef is packed with flavour and easy to make. You don’t need a lot of the fermented black beans to get great flavour and they are really inexpensive too. The package I bought was only $1.19 and I only used a tablespoon. If you want to make meal prep … Read More
When you’re busy and you need a quick dinner, this homemade black bean sauce will help make a super flavourful meal in no time. Just 2-3 tablespoons with your choice of meat and/or vegetable, served with rice to sop up all the sauce. Oh my! Make this simple black bean sauce once and store it … Read More
This Taiwanese beef noodle soup is comfort in a bowl with tender pieces of beef with slurp worthy noodles swimming in a hot soup. This will definitely warm your insides and fill you up especially on cold and wet days! Makes 4-6 servings Ingredients 3 pounds beef shank or beef finger meat, cut into 2 … Read More
This is one of those simple soups I made a lot of during my university days because I loved cream of corn. But I just learned that cream of corn is just corn, cornstarch and sugar in a can! So, this version doesn’t even use a can of cream of corn but if you want … Read More
Congee is an Asian comfort food generally consumed for breakfast or brunch. It is also popular as a late night meal served with tasty sides like deep-fried salt and pepper fishies, squid or tofu. It’s also often made for someone under the weather. For me, it’s my comfort food. My kids think of it as … Read More