Category: Favourite
Air Fryer Korean Fried Chicken Wings (Yangnyeom Chicken)
When I lived alone, one of the foods I cooked on repeat was no fry chicken with Korean inspired sweet and spicy sauce. I love eating fried chicken but I don’t like to fry food in my house. This is mainly because I dislike the clean up. One day I thought ” what…
Pork Rib Soup (using instant pot)
Pork rib soup is simple to make and only requires 3 ingredients. If you are new to cooking, this soup is a great dish to try. This soup was actually derived from one of my husband’s friend recipe. He would always make this pork rib soup when we went camping. The recipe is…
Spicy Sesame Noodles
A quick lunch/dinner for those lazy or busy days. This spicy sesame noodles will definitely keep you going.
Ginger Milk Pudding (姜撞奶）
I’m a huge fan of Asian dessert. They are not too sweet. Ginger milk pudding is one of them. It is a classic Cantonese dessert that I love making at home. There are few Cantonese dessert restaurant here in Greater Toronto area and this dessert is always featured on the menu. At restaurants,…
Beijing Fried Bean Sauce Noodles (ZhaJiangMian)
I spent a part of my childhood in Beijing and my mom is from Beijing. One of the dishes my mom made was fried bean sauce noodles with this fried bean sauce. If you had Jajangmyeon from a Korean Chinese restaurant, it has origin to original Zha Jiang Mian. However over the years…
Instant Pot Gamjatang (Korean Pork Bone and Potato Stew)
Today I’m making a easier version of the classic Gamjatang using my instant pot. When I was in high school, I used to take music and band lessons in Richmond Hill. My parents would always go to a T&T supermarket and they had a stall that would sell Korean Pork Bone potato stew…
Easy Foolproof Japanese Milk Bread (Shokupan)
In my teen years I refuse to eat anything that was made of white flour. Everything had to be whole wheat. As I got older, I stopped caring about eating everything whole wheat. I started to crave white bread. While I still buy whole grains loafs, once in a while I crave for…
Dorayaki (Red Bean Pancake)
I have another recipe to use the red bean paste. This one is pretty well known dessert from Japan called Dorayaki. It’s basically red bean paste sandwiched between two pancakes. If you know Japanese manga series Doraemon then you know dorayaki is Doraemon’s favourite food! What is Dorayaki? The modern dorayaki originate from…
Braised Pork Belly (hong shao rou）
Hong shao rou is very popular dish in China. This is also one of my favourite dish my mom used to cook for me. I used to love eating pieces of pork belly with boiled eggs. It was definitely one of the dishes that will make me eat a whole bowl of rice…
