Posted by Sam.H
One of my favorite snacks is Salt-pepper chicken. It is a Taiwanese style popcorn chicken. We call it Yan Su Ji (鹽酥雞) in Chinese. Salt-pepper chicken is one of the popular snacks that can be easily found in most Taiwanese restaurant(s) or boba milk tea stations. Thus it is always my first choice of snack whenever I hangout with friends at some local Taiwanese restaurants here in LA.
I like this Taiwanese style popcorn chicken because of the salty and peppery favor & the crispiness of it, as well as the tenderness of the chicken meat with enough marinated juices preserved.
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Posted by Bel.C
What’s the best thing to do if you have too much leftover rice? Fried Rice of course. In Indonesia or Malay, it is called “Nasi Goreng”. Nasi means Rice; Goreng means Fried. One main thing to remember when preparing fried rice is best to use cooked rice that has been cooled down ahead of time or refrigerated overnight, so the fried rice will not be soggy. You can combine a variety of ingredients of meat and vegetable to make the fried rice. This time I was cooking the Indonesian Fried Rice that includes chicken and shrimp with red chili that gives you the extra spicy kick on it as well as a fried egg on the side.
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Posted by Sam.H
Zha Jiang Mian (炸醬面) is a traditional dish from Northern China and it is named as the “brown meat sauce noodle” in most Chinese cuisines while Westerners called it “Chinese spaghetti”. Noodle (面) is the main diet for Northern Chinese due to the main crop at Northern China is wheat. Thus the Chinese uses it to produce the wheat noodle as known as la mian (拉麺) or it is called Ramen in Japan.
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Posted by Bel.C
I’ve made a batch of muffins this Sunday mainly for my breakfast of the week. I always love the banana nut muffins but since I didn’t have bananas on hand, I had to use whatever I could find in the house. Then it just came across my mind of using my favorite instant coffee Nestle Taster’s Choice with pecans I’ve found and brown sugar. Let’s make the Coffee Pecan Muffins. This recipe calls for a perfect combination of a nice strong coffee flavor complemented with the sweetness of brown-sugared pecans.
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Posted by Sam.H
A friend of mine just gave birth two weeks ago and this reminds me the sweet vinegar pork feet that cooked by my mum occasionally. I could still remember how much I love it by eating bowl and bowl of rice with the sauce.
This traditional Cantonese dish is served to women who are in first month of confinement after childbirth and it is believed to supply extra nutrition. Of course, this dish is also for those who love the sweet and sour vinegar taste like me. So I decided to make this dish for the first time.
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