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Chorizo Focaccia Recipe
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So it’s just two days until my holiday and I’m so excited about going travelling again. Sadly we don’t have time to go for long but we’re spending 10 days in Taipei then 4 days in Bali. I’ve never been to Bali but I’m super excited about it. Recently I’ve been sorting out recipes that ...
Prawn and Scallop Shumai Recipe
It’s only 12 days now and I’m going back home for two weeks. I try to go back to my home country, Taiwan, once every couple of years so I can catch up with friends, see my family, do some shopping and perhaps most importantly have a rest. I’m especially desperate to go home this ...
Egg Spinach and Squid Roll Recipe
Recently I’ve been busy doing a series of speeches in Glasgow for Chinese New Year. I was asked by www.ricefield.org which is based in the trendy Trongate building in central Glasgow if I could present some speeches as part of their celebrations for Chinese New Year. These have now finished, spring is coming and I ...
Chicken Satay Recipe
Something my husband’s colleagues keep asking for is chicken satay. They are fully aware that I’m a chef and they’ve tried many of my dishes, including chow mein, salad boat sandwich, shenjiangbao and even thai green curry but they keep asking for satay. I must highlight chicken satays are NOT Chinese or Taiwanese foods, they ...
Spanish Chickpea Chorizo and Prawn Soup Recipe
As promised in my first blog of the year I’ve decided to start adding Western foods to my website. Some of the foods I have learnt through working as a chef, some through friends or family, and some have been influenced by my travels. Today I’m sharing a recipe for Spanish Chickpea, Chorizo and Prawn ...
Mustard Green Chicken Soup A Taiwanese New Year Dish
Mustard Green Chicken Soup is one of our traditional Taiwanese New Year dishes. The long stalk from the vegetable represents long life and it’s simply a great dish for Chinese New Year. The Mustard Green vegetable is also known as Brassica Juncea. It’s a kind of mustard plant that not only Chinese people use in ...
Fa Gao A Taiwanese new year dessert recipe
I hope everyone had a great Chinese new year this year. After I introduced you to a few Chinese New Year dishes and explained why we have those dishes for our Chinese New Year dinner. I realized after writing these that I didn’t tell you about the origins of Chinese New Year. I think there ...
Fortune Squid Blossom Chinese New Year Dish
As you can probably tell from a lot of my posts I really love seafood and today I wanted to make a squid dish. I named this dish “Fortune Squid Blossom” because a flower blossom is regarded as a lucky thing in Chinese culture. Flowers in full bloom symbolize affluence and nobility. As my previous ...
Eight Treasure Rice Pudding Chinese new year dish
Eight Treasures Rice Pudding is a traditional Chinese new year pudding. Eight treasures topping is made up with eight different kind of dried fruits, raisin and sweets. You can choose any ingredients which are easy for you to buy. Of course, you don’t have to use “eight” different toppings but the number of toppings you ...
Chili Bean Paste Fish and Tofu Chinese new year dish
Chili bean paste fish and tofu is the name of this Chinese fish dish. This dish is also my first recipe for this Chinese new year. A lot of people probably don’t know when Chinese New Year is this year but it’s actually the 2nd of February. People from Hong Kong, China and Taiwan will ...