There are so many types of Chinese pickled vegetables. If you have visited one of the larger Chinese supermarkets, you may be baffled with the array of dried or wet pickled vegetables: salt pickled, vinegar pickled, spice pickled, sweet pickled etc.. [...]
Steamed pork cake with moi choi ?????
Posted by yanti on Sunday, February 27, 2011
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Red bean soup with chan pei ???????
Posted by yanti on Wednesday, February 23, 2011
Red bean or aduki bean is a common oriental ingredient making into thick bean paste filling for buns/cake and also made into sweet soups or tong sui ??We Chinese love sweet soups for dessert, there are numerous varieties. Red bean soup with mandarin [...]
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Baked beans ala Chinese ??????
Posted by yanti on Monday, February 21, 2011
I love baked beans with English breakfast, on toast or on baked potato. Ever had stir fried baked beans? Since I was a kid I adored baked beans with pork ala Chinese style. I think many Chinese kids brought up in the far east are familiar with this. [...]
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Chan pei mui ??? (Chinese fruit candy)
Posted by yanti on Sunday, February 20, 2011
Anyone remembers and still eats Chan pei mui ???? Chan pei mui is a traditional Chinese candy. I love it since I was a kid. It is a fruit candy, looks brown/black soft and chewy with a strong citrus peel flavour.From the name chan pei mui ???, you can [...]
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Back to basics - dried mandarin or tangerine peel ??
Posted by yanti on Saturday, February 19, 2011
Chan pei ?? directly translated as 'ancient old skin', it is basically dried mandarin or tangerine peel. The reason why it is called ancient old skin is because it is not freshly dried peel it must be aged for at least a year before used.Towards the [...]
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Tang yuan, fermented rice and egg drop sweet soup ??????
Posted by yanti on Thursday, February 17, 2011
Tang Yuan ?? are boiled soft chewy balls normally made with glutinous rice flour.Today is the last day (day 15) of Chinese New Year called Yuan Xiao Festival ???. It's also a full moon day today. CNY starts on the 1st day of lunar month and end on full [...]
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Taiwanese meat and mushroom sauce ??????
Posted by yanti on Tuesday, February 15, 2011
?????? - Tai Shi Xiang Gu Rou ZaoThis is Chinese spag bog sauce Taiwanese style. The flavour is similar to this chunky style recipe.Cheap, flavourful and very versatile, this sauce is great with plain rice, any noodles (dry or soup), stir fries vegetables [...]
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Pumpkin pudding ????
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This is a refreshing pudding and easy to make. The mandarin peel makes the pudding quite fragrance.Pumpkin skin is quite tough to peel. I cooked the pumpkin with the skin on, once cooked the skin will become very soft. For this recipe I cooked about [...]
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Back to basics - Homemade five spice powder ?????
Posted by yanti on Friday, February 11, 2011
Chinese five spice is a classic flavouring in many Chinese cooking. I have bought and used many different brands of five spice powder. I noticed they all smell different and some didn't have much aroma at all.Though it is called five spice, it is not [...]
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Homemade sweet fermented rice ???
Posted by yanti on Wednesday, February 9, 2011
Fermenting cooked rice is a very old Chinese, Japanese, Korean and other S E Asians tradition, the main use is to make rice wine. Fresh partially fermented rice is very sweet, great to eat as it is like a rice pudding or use for cooking.In Chinese sweet [...]
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CNY 7th day
Posted by yanti on Tuesday, February 8, 2011
Happy Birthday to all! It's the 7th day of CNY again. In Chinese tradition it's everybody's birthday. We called today ??, reads as 'Ren le' in Mandarin or 'Yan Yak' in Cantonese, literally means 'people's day'.See previous post and some recipes related [...]
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Golden pumpkin cake
Posted by yanti on Monday, February 7, 2011
Golden Pumpkin Cake ?????One of Cantonese favourite Chinese New Year's cake is lo bak goh (turnip or mooli cake). This year I subbed mooli with pumpkin. The cake has a mild sweetness and lovely pumpkin flavour. It has a nice golden colour. Gold or golden [...]
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