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16 Aug 2021 7 minute read 0 comments Chinuck
While it's cliché to say "they go together like X" to describe the sweetest, most endearing, enviable and nauseating couples, we can at least make the cliché itself less nauseating by being creative with what we choose for X -- and the list is long!...
13 Aug 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Chinuck
While this recipe might not seem very Chinesey, it is certainly common amongst the rotation of daily soups in a Chinese family. It's so simple, yet satisfying and cleansing. Normally, there's a piece of lean pork a bit smaller than the size of a fis...
11 Aug 2021 1 minute read 4 comments Chinuck
While working at a Japanese restaurant, I once commented to the chef that Japanese are very creative inventors. He thought that Japanese don't invent anything, but are good at copying other people's inventions and improving on them. While I think Ita...
9 Aug 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Chinuck
Fire up the grill because we need to cook the person who came up with this terrible pun! Or, you can fire up these shiso kebabs which I think would be much tastier. Ingredients 12 shrimp 12 shiso leaves a few strips of kanpyo -- Kanpyo is a dried g...
6 Aug 2021 1 minute read 6 comments Chinuck
As summer is getting into full swing in many places, here's a simple recipe to help you cool off. (Apologies to citizens of the Southern Hemisphere for my Northern Hemisphere centrism.) This recipe is more commonly done with mint, but this is a Japa...
4 Aug 2021 2 minute read 2 comments Chinuck
Noodle soup is as Asian as burgers are American. As a Chinese kid growing up in North America, I liked both of these foods, but I remember the particular challenges they brought me as well. Crappy fast food burgers were generally not a problem, but a...
2 Aug 2021 1 minute read 2 comments Chinuck
This dish is known as "Four Season Beans" because it performs equally well in snow, rain and on dry roads. It's best done with Chinese long beans, but can also be done with string beans, which are more common. I had some fine beans, which I think are...
30 Jul 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Chinuck
I love using fermented black beans, but if I want to make something quickly and add a lot of flavour, black bean sauce is convenient to use. While you can buy ready-made black bean sauce in Asian supermarkets, or even "regular" supermarkets nowadays,...
28 Jul 2021 2 minute read 0 comments Chinuck
When I was a young lad, we didn't have pidan pastries at dim sum, but now these new fangled things have become quite trendy. I first introduced pidan in a more traditional use with congee, but today we're going to make a "new fangled" (as old me say...
26 Jul 2021 2 minute read 0 comments Chinuck
There are just so many things you can do with shrimp. You can barbecue it, boil it, broil it, bake it, sauté it. There's shrimp kabobs, shrimp creole, shrimp gumbo. Pan fried, deep fried, stir fried. There's pineapple shrimp, lemon shrimp, coconut sh...
