Cooking Styles

Quick and Easy Pork Strips with Fresh Shitake Mushrooms

There are some days when you just don’t feel like cooking anything that involves a lot of work, yet you want something quick and easy that is delicious and fills your tummy. I found some lean pork in my freezer and a packet of fresh shiitake mushrooms so rustled this up one evening to pair [...]

Quick and Easy Steamed Chicken with Rice Wine Sauce

Here’s another quick and easy steamed chicken dish. I love steaming chicken because its healthy and easy. You just leave it in the wok/steamer and you can do up the rest of your household chores until its time to take it out and eat.

This dish was inspired by the wine chicken one sometimes [...]

Old Cucumber Soup (Lou Wong Kwa) with Red Dates

I love my soups and soups always make a useful addition to a meal or can even form a meal in itself. Besides many Chinese soups have health benefits too like the old cucumber. The old cucumber or old yellow cucumber (Lou Wong Kwa - cantonese) is said to be “cooling” and beneficial for health. [...]

Easy Steamed Herbal Chicken

I love herbal chicken and one day, when I was at a bit of a loose end, I decided to try to make my own. It turned out a treat, even if it wasn’t as “herby” as I’d like it. Still, it is something that I can see many taking to it quite easily mainly [...]