June, 2010 // Posts published in June, 2010
Hot and Sour Soup
Hot and sour soup is a very common dish in both Taiwan and China. People usually have fried or plain dumplings with hot and sour soup. The sourness of this soup is very good for one’s appetite and my mother use to tell me when I got flu that it will go away quicker if ...
Drunken Chicken
When I was a child I always thought you prepared drunken chicken by feeding the chicken a bottle of rice wine before cooking. I thought if the chicken was drunk enough it would make the meat taste of alcohol. Now I think how silly I was but who knows these things. I love the taste ...
Honey Cake Chinese Desert
Honey Cake is a dessert that we usually give to our families when there is a new born member of the family. We will host a part for our family and friends to celebrate the one month birth of the baby and we call this party “Man-yue-jiu”. Usually the family will prepare boiled eggs which ...
Beef Shank with Spring Onion Pancake Wrap
Beef Shank with spring onion pancake wrap originates from Northern China. Northern Chinese cuisine uses flour as an ingredient very often while Southern Chinese cuisine uses rice as an ingredient very often. The weather in Northern China, with it’s extreme climate changes from very hot to very cold is far from ideal for growing rice ...
Pearl Meatballs
Because of the layer of glutinous rice that surrounds this meatball we give it the great name of “Pearl Meatball”. This is because the rice looks translucent and the colour and shape of this meatballs looks like a pearl. This dish can often to be seen in banquets and parties in both Taiwan and China ...
Bang Bang Chicken
Is everybody feeling the heat lately? Recently Edinburgh has been getting a lot warmer. It’s great weather when I have a day off but it’s really horrible when I have to work under this kind of weather because the temperature can easily reach 40~50 degree. So today I share with you the recipe of this ...