Hunan Style Steamed Eggplant is a Chinese vegetarian dish prepared with steamed eggplant topped with a sauce prepared with sesame paste, fermented black beans, soy sauce, sesame oil, chilli oil and Asian aromatics. If you love eggplants this dish is a no brainer, for a meat lover like me this...
Several weeks ago, I bought this Roasted Sesame dressing for a noodle salad dish that was introduced to me by my friend when we had barbecue at their place. That sauce is quite a wonder sauce, it makes things taste amazing, like how Kewpie mayonnaise transforms things. The bottle is...
As a child I hated broccoli, I guess everyone does when they are young, these green tree like vegetable is bitter to the undeveloped taste buds of the young ones but as you grow older you try to appreciate it and some start loving it like me. Honestly this is...
For many months now, I am in continuous search for those lesser known Filipino dishes and in line with that search I am also reading the menus of popular Filipino restaurants just to double check if I had missed some dishes that I haven’t posted yet. After that thorough exercise...
Seaweed Salad is a type of Japanese cold salad made with wakame seaweeds, carrots and sesame seeds dressed in miso sesame oil vinaigrette. Its crispy, slimy, sweet, savoury, definitely a delicious salad filled with tons of umami, on a simple salad like this it’s hard to believe that you will...
Stir-fried cauliflower with tomato sauce is a simple dish of cauliflower stir fried with tomatoes and garlic, a really nice side dish with a really good flavour. Picking the right tomatoes is the key to this dish so that the natural flavours of cauliflower would come out, which means Roma...
Most of us is so used to having lettuce on salads and eaten raw but in Asia there are dishes where it is cooked like this dish of ours today a simple scalded lettuce in garlic oil. Its one of the fastest cooked dish you will ever make, all you...
I wanted to make this for a long time as I was inspired by a colleague of mine who made one and gave a couple of jars to me, she said she makes Tomato Sauce at home specially when she have lots of extra tomatoes grown from her garden, it’s...
Pasta in Italy is like rice in Asia this means that anything Asians can do with their rice the Italians can with their pasta, even more. As a child I always thought that the only pasta dishes that ever existed were spaghetti, carbonara and lasagna but as I grew older...
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