Hakka Char Yoke - Braised Pork and Wood Ear Fungus
Char Yoke is a Hakka dish that is commonly found at our local chap fun (economy rice) stalls. I really like it and have been wanting to try it out for myself at home. Char Yoke is essentially braised pork with wood ear fungus. The secret in the dish lies in the use of fermented [...]
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. [...]
Quick and Easy Puff Pastry Apple Tart
I’m not very good at baking and many of my baking experiments tend to end up burnt or awful failures or mere near successes. That is, until I worked on this really easy apple tart dessert! I love anything with apples in it, and an apple pie felt a little too heavy. So, I decided [...]
