Category: Restaurant Inspired
Homemade Hot and Sour soup
Growing up, hot and sour was my favourite soup. My mom used to buy these hot and sour soup mixes and I would boil hot water, add in powder and a beaten egg. It was a quick and easy soup. This homemade hot and sour soup has all the flavours I love, the…
Honey French Toast
There is a famous bakery in London UK called Hachi and they make these really popular honey butter toast. I saw so many variations of the honey butter toast until I saw someone on Chinese social media decided to put a twist on french toast with honey. This honey french toast does not…
Scallion oil noodles
A Shanghainese noodle noodle dish. It’s simple to make on the weekday and perfect in making larger batches for family. It can be stored up to a week if needed.
Pineapple Bun (菠萝包)
Pineapple bun is a staple in any Hong Kong bakery. When I was young, I loved going to these Hong Kong bakeries, grab a tray, tongs and pick all the breads you want. At the time it was about $0.50 to $0.75 at bakeries. My go to bread was a red bean bread,…
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…
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…
Vietnamese Salt Preserved Lemons (Chanh Muối)
Recently I’ve discovered a new drink. It was at a Vietnamese restaurant and they had a drink called Salty Lemonades. I ordered it and it was delicious. Lemonades are a quintessential summer drink. I was never a big fan of it until I tried a salty lemonade at a Vietnamese restaurant. I know…
Easy Vietnamese pickles (Đồ Chua)
Welcome to my first post on my blog! I thought I should start off with something easy. I’ve recently moved into our new home and I’m excited to start cooking again. For the past 6 months we have been living at our respective parents’ place so we haven’t got the itch to cook…
