Nov 4, 2009 0
Posted by Sam.H
Tuna cracker is one of the most popular appetizers/snacks for parties or events. It is always a good starter while we are hanging around waiting for the opening. Serving with appetite wine is a good combination too. I love to serve tuna crackers because they are easy and fun to be made – and yet, delicious. Also, the tuna cracker itself is like an art of a chef’s presentation.
Nov 2, 2009 0
Posted by Bel.C
Most of the time we like our fruits to be fully ripened and sweet in taste. However one of the ways I like the fresh, young and soury fruits is when they are mixed in the thick soy sauce made up with shrimp paste, cili padi (hot bird’s eye chillies) and topped with grounded peanuts. Rojak. Yes, you are right! The Malaysian style of fruit salad or Rojak Buah gives you the whole new flavor combination of salty, sweet, sour and not forgotten the hot and spicy.
I could still remember everytime when me and my sister went to Pasar Malam (Night Market), we loved to buy a lot of snacks and Rojak is one of them that could not be left out. Both of us could never have enough of it and would always finish it in minutes.
Oct 28, 2009 1
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.
Oct 26, 2009 0
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.
Oct 21, 2009 0
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.
