Category Archives: Ethnicity & Dialects

老公煮的爱心餐 -四川菜排骨汤 (Sze Chuan Vegetable & Pork Ribs Soup)

Having leftover Sze Chuan preserved vegetables from last week’s dish of Teochew Sze Chuan Vegetables & Pork Stir-Fry) meant that we had to either cook the same dish this week or cook something else using similar ingredients.

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家常便饭 - 潮州四川菜炒猪肉丝 (Teochew Sze Chuan Vegetables & Pork Stir-Fry)

Because of my morning sickness kicking in, I’m going to have to be contented with what I eat from now onwards. I can’t cook many fanciful dishes now, for fear that the smell of the food or even the condiments … Read more

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My Crispy Chinese Pan-Fried Dumpling (锅贴)

I did it well this time. The last time I tried making pan-fried dumpling, otherwise known as ‘guo tie’ (or 锅贴 in Mandarin) (The Guo Tie: Chinese Pan-Fried Dumpling Experiment) was more than 2 years ago. It wasn’t inedible, but … Read more

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Japanese Chicken Curry (チキンカレー)

Japanese curry first arrived in Japan in the early 19th century, due to the influx of cultural exchanges between South and East Asia, which was in turn brought about by the widespread colonialism of different parts of Asia by the … Read more

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Crispy Cheesy Potato Gems

Cheese and potatoes – they are like a perfect match made in heaven. They always go well together, regardless of what the resulting dish is: mashed potato with melted cheese toppings, hasselback potato drizzled with cheese, baked jacket potatoes with … Read more

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