About Ingredients What is Shaoxing cooking wine?
“Shaoxing Jiu” is a popular alcoholic beverage in China. Shaoxing is the name of the city where they brew it, and “Jiu” ...
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About Ingredients Seafood Masala Haddock, pan-fried Fish with Curry Paste
This recipe was inspired by the food which we had in Hatta island (part of the Spice Islands), Indonesia. We were served...
Salad Shrimp Cocktail Salad: A Quick & Easy Recipe
Shrimp cocktail salad is not only a quick and easy salad, but it also looks beautiful. It is good as a starter or your d...
Bread & Pastry Quick Bread with All Purpose Flour and Yoghurt without Yeast
You want to eat bread for breakfast, but you don’t have any bread and you don’t have enough time to raise the bread doug...
Noodles Stir-Fried Noodles with Shanghai Choy and Eggs: Quick Breakfast (20 minutes Cooking)
I cooked stir-fried noodles for breakfast today. Last time I used fresh noodles, and this time I used dried noodles. We ...
Salad Vinegared Crab Sticks and Cucumber Salad with Sesame: A Quick & Easy Recipe
We bought “Snow Legs” in a supermarket the other day. They look like snow crab legs, but they are not. They are a sort o...
About Ingredients What’s the difference between Chinese/Japanese eggplants and Italian eggplants?
Chinese (or Japanese) eggplants are normally a bit skinnier than Italian eggplants though we also have round shaped eggp...
Meat Stewed Pork and Red Peppers with Shiokoji
We often buy big pieces of pork shoulder. I cut them into smaller pieces and freeze them with Shiokoji. Shiokoji makes t...
Rice Golden Stir-Fried Rice with Fluffy Eggs
Fried rice is one of our favourite dishes. Making fried rice is not complicated, but there are some techniques to cook i...
Japanese Food How to Make Japanese Curry Cubes from Scratch
My parents sent us a package from Japan which contained a lot of Japanese food and snacks. There were some packages of J...