‘San Bei’三杯, or ‘Three Cup’ is a classic Taiwanese sauce recipe which refers to three main ingredients : Soy sauce, rice cooking wine, and sesame oil. Three Cup Sauce is like Japanese Teriyaki sauce that you can homemade and use it as go-to sauce for stir-fry dishes such as Three Cup Chicken. The sauce is…
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Easy Scallion Pancakes with Dumpling Skins 餃子皮蔥油餅
After making 10 chubby siu mai, I still have plenty of dumpling skins left but I don’t really want to put them back to the freezer. So I decided to make scallion pancakes, yes, with dumpling skins! The recipe only requires 5 ingredients and won’t take you much time and effort. The cheat version actually…
Vegan Tonkotsu Ramen 素豚骨風拉麵
Do you know Japanese Tonkotsu Ramen could be made in vegan version, too? The answer is YES and it’s actually quite easy to make at home. To create this thick and cloudy broth without slow-cooking pork bones for 12 hours, the secret is to add oat milk! It’s similar like Soy Milk Ramen 豆乳ラーメン but…
Zero Waste Veggie Broth 自製零浪費蔬菜高湯
I first saw Chef James and Chez Jorge using vegetable odds to make their own broth and found it’s such a cool idea to use up the vegetable waste. So, I’ve started to collect and gather my vegetable scraps in freezer until I have enough to make the veggie broth. This is super easy, flexible…
Crispy Sesame Tofu Katsu 酥脆芝麻豆腐排
I’ve made sesame tofu cubes quite a few times (see recipe here) and I really love how it turned out with crispy outside and soft inside. Then this time I would like to put on more efforts to make Sesame Tofu Katsu. Firstly I press my tofu block, freeze, defrost, then press again. It does…
My First Ever Ostrich Egg Recipe : Ostrich Egg Fried Rice
How to cook an ostrich egg? Yes, that’s a big question when Nourished Communities gifted me an ostrich egg for my Foodtryb Mystery Ingredient Challenge. Didn’t expect to receive such a huge egg and need to create a recipe for this so I was struggling in the beginning as it seems a challenge to even…
Good Fortune Tofu Box for Lunar New Year 豆腐福包
I was brainstorming some recipes for upcoming Lunar New Year, then after seeing Vernabanana’s viral teriyaki tofu sticks wrapped with nori seaweed, I was so inspired and came up with a similar idea to create these fortune-box-look-like tofu blocks. And here it is! Basically I wrapped nori around tofu in a different way to…
Shi Zi Tou / Lion’s Head Soy Balls 素獅子頭 (冷凍素丸子版本)
‘Lion’s Head’ meatballs (we called it ‘Shi Zi Tou’ 獅子頭 in Mandarin) is a classic dish in my Taiwan’s family particularly to be served as celebration meal for Lunar New Year. Basically they are large-sized pork meatballs stewed with Chinese leaves, the meatballs taste super tender and succulent with flavourful broth. To be honestly it’s…
Mapo Tofu 麻婆豆腐 (無肉版本)
Mapo tofu is a classic Sichuan style dish with spicy, salty, a little bit numbing and aromatic flavour, this is also one of my favourite Sichuanese dishes that I would cook once in a while at home to enjoy with rice. Authentic mapo tofu usually comes with pork mince, but I find pork mince here…
Easy Vegan Zha Jiang Mian / Stir-fried soybean paste noodles 簡易素食版炸醬麵
I’ve ever introduced Taiwanese Zha Jiang Mian (炸醬麵) before, it’s a very common street food in Taiwan consisting of noodles topped with stir-fried pork mince and soybean paste. I do love the meaty taste of Zha Jiang Mian, but this classic noodles dish can be transformed to veggie version and it also tastes divine. This…