Spicy gochujang pork and savory Real California Cheese strike a balance in these truly delicious sandwiches, which you can make in two ways!
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Making Easy Lemongrass Pork Banh Mi At Home
There’s a simple reason why the Vietnamese banh mi is all the rage these days: THEY ARE SO DANG GOOD. Try out this easy Lemongrass Pork Banh Mi at home!
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My first attempt at Cantonese-style Char Siu Pork
Sweet, savoury, garlicky, and smoky– just some of the things a slice of this Char Siu Pork brings to the table!
- Asian Flavors, Cooking Recipes, I love Asian noodles, Korean food, My favourite things, Pastas & noodles, Pork dishes
Two ways to go crazy for Jjajangmyeon 짜장면
There are two things I picked up from the past few years of watching Korean dramas: an unexpected attachment to the language, and a constant craving for jjajangmyeon. Jjajangmyeon (짜장면) is a popular Chinese-Korean noodle dish with a thick stir-fried black bean sauce on top. ‘Jjajang’ literally means fried sauce in Korean, with ‘myeon’ meaning noodles. Typically the sauce is loaded with potatoes, zucchini, carrots, a bit of pork, and lots of onions. The black bean sauce is salty, but the Korean style of cooking this noodle dish requires a bit of sugar for some slight caramel notes. It creates a nice contrast in flavours.
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Ushering Christmas feast-making season with a stress-less sort of recipe
There are two things that require abundance during the holiday season and that is gifts and food. Arguably these are the two things that bring the most cheer, which is why most of our efforts and time in preparing for the holidays go to Christmas shopping and prepping for a feast in the kitchen. Many people haven’t even recovered from turkey-induced comas, yet here we are once again gearing up for another kind of coma. Eggnog-induced maybe? Thanksgiving isn’t a holiday here in the Philippines, so we jump right into getting ready for our Christmas. Filipinos go all-out during Pasko. The food and the parties (and the karaoke-singing) literally never…
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Of friendship and dimsum + How to make Homemade Dumplings [VIDEO]
Dimsum– quite possibly one of the best things about living in Asia. Also one of the best things about living in a country where there are so many excellent Chinese/Cantonese restaurants. I can eat a whole meal comprised of just these steamed wonders. Dimsum has always been a favourite of mine since childhood, but lately I have come to gain a new appreciation for Dimsum, when two of my bestest friends and I began this tradition of meeting over dimsum and catching up. We try to do it every month if all our schedules permit, and quite frankly it’s one of the highlights of my month whenever we do. There have…
