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20 Aug 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Chinuck $0.05
This is a Japanese breakfast food that's satisfying, but won't make you feel bloated -- something typical of Japanese breakfast foods. If the star of the show is natto, then the onsen tamago deserves an Oscar for best supporting actor. "Onsen tamago...
18 Aug 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Chinuck $0.04
This is one of my original creations and it's always a hit at parties. People often ask me for the recipe. Well, here it is for the world to partake! The backbone of this dish is katsuobushi, which are shavings of dried smoked bonito (a type of tuna)...
16 Aug 2021 7 minute read 0 comments Chinuck $0.04
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 $0.03
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 $0.04
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 $0.14
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 $0.04
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 $0.06
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 $0.05
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 $0.05
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,...
