There are many ways to make a bowl of comfort beef stew. This non authentic recipe is one of my favourite and good way to clear up the vegetable drawer in the fridge. The stew looks ordinary like any tomatoey beef stew but with few oriental ingredients [...]
Oriental inspired beef and vegetable stew
Posted by yanti on Thursday, June 23, 2011
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Sichuan liang fen ???? (Starch jelly noodles)
Posted by yanti on Sunday, June 19, 2011
Liang fen ?? is a jelly noodles made with starch and water. Starch and water is cooked to a thick custard, set and chilled. It is then cut into whatever shape and size you like then dressed in a Sichaun spicy sauce with some spring onion, coriander [...]
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Sichuan sugar and spice infused soy sauce ????
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Fu zh� jiang you ???? loosely translated as replicated soy sauce. Another common name you may come across is red soy sauce ??? for tian sui mian ???. This is an aromatic sugar and spice infused/reduced soy sauce for many Sichuanese dishes especially [...]
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Toyomansi and Bistek
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Toyomansi is my latest favourite sauce. It's a Filipino soy sauce with calamansi lime juice, a sourish soy with a citrus fragrance. I like it but having had fresh calamansi before, I have a suspicion some flavouring other than real calamansi is added [...]
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Crystal zhongzi ????
Posted by yanti on Monday, June 6, 2011
?????? shui jing = water crystal?? zhongzi = leaf wrapped dumplingHere is another unusual zhongzi. The recipe is based on Thai tapioca dumplings, Sawku Sai Muu. The pastry dough is made with tapioca pearls. They are called crystal zhongzi because the [...]
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Hakka mochi zhongzi ????
Posted by yanti on Sunday, June 5, 2011
Ker ja bun zong ????Zhongzi can be written as ?? or ??Today is Duan Wu Festival ??? or Dragon Boat Festival. The origin and story behind this festival see Wiki. Zhongzi or leaf wrapped dumplings are a must to be eaten during this festival.There are few [...]
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