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  Every time a festival is celebrated, this dish of boiled white meat (pork belly) must be prepared for worship. After the worship, the boiled white meat will be sliced, and then dipped in soy sauce with chilli to serve with rice. I'm sharing a special condiment today that I made with hot chilli oil for this dish. Whe preparing it, we need to bring the cooking oil to a boil then gently pour the hot oil into the bowl with the chili flakes and other spices, stirring constantly with a spoon or chopsticks so the chili flakes and spices can absorb the flavor of the hot oil. There is no seasoning that compares to this hot chilli oil always possesses. Just add a spoonful of it to the food, no matter how much there is, whether it is meat or vegetarian, steamed buns, or noodles. It becomes appetizing and satisfying. I always enjoy making extra chilli oil. You'll want to pour it on everything once you get hooked. To make the dipping sauce for the boiled white meat is simple and str...

  During gatherings for New Year, holidays, or special occasions, we always have various challenging dishes to support the scene. This braised pork with preserved or plum vegetables (Mei Cai Kou Rou / 梅菜扣肉） is one of them. Many people choose to eat this dish outside, perhaps because they think the restaurant's version tastes better or maybe because they think the recipe takes a lot of time.   Yes, it is made from scratch, it’s taken a long time to make it. The toughest part is to deep fry the pork and to clean the preserved veggies.   And the rest of the process is to put all the ingredients into the bowl and steam it. It’s easy once you figure it out. It's not difficult at all. Cleaning the preserved veggies is the most difficult aspect of this dish—it's crucial to give them a thorough cleaning. And the preserved veggies are a unique for this Chinese pork belly. The flavor added by this preserved mustard greens is unique and appetizing. I am using two types of pres...

When I was kid, I liked to eat bean curd meat rolls which my late mom always just used ground meat as filling without any seasoning with the filling. Wrapping, rolling, and frying until crisp. Then braised it with bean paste sauce. I discovered that these bean curd rolls are a typical dim sum restaurant appetizer when I first started working. Additionally, the fillings can be prepared in a variety of methods and contain a variety of components. It can be added to vegetable soups, stews, skewers, spaghetti, and other dishes. Today, I'll show you how to make them at home easily and cook them using my own version on the sweet-and-sour flavour with sour plum sauce. It's sweet and sour, just like sweet and sour pork ribs, but this sour plum sauce smells especially like green plums, so you won't feel tired after eating too much. Bean curd sheets are made from soy beans. Some are salty. Some is 0 mg of sodium. If you are using salty type of bean curd sheet, use a clean cloth...

You might have tried deep fried pork belly with red bean curd or shrimp paste. Have you ever tried cincalok pork belly? Cincalok has a very strong pungent smell and taste, but once it is cooked with meat, it is either steamed or fried. The smell will subside and it ’ will be the most delicious and fragrant dish on the table.   Cincalok is very versatile, and you can use it to create a delicious dish with fried wings or an omelet. This deep fry pork belly with cincalok is a super simple recipe. It goes well with white rice and more. The important note to this recipe is to cut off the pork belly skin. The trick with this recipe is to cook the meat through without making it tough, and to naturally enhance the umami flavour of the tender pork belly with cincalok. Making this deep-fried pork belly at home is quite simple. All you need to do is to marinade the pork with cincalok to enhance the intense flavor, then deep fry with a thin coating of cornstarch until golden brown. That...

Wontons are a kind of Chinese dumpling that are usually fried or boiled in soup after being filled with meat or vegetables. It has a rich filling and a thin exterior shell. It is juicy, fragrant, and tastes especially nice when you bite into it. I'll be sharing a recipe for steamed wontons with you today. When eaten, the chewy, steaming wontons are crystal transparent. When served with dipping sauce, it's a tasty dish. Anyway, the key to a good wonton is the sauce that brings out the many tastes of the wontons, whether they are boiled, fried, or steam cooked. This steamed wonton with my own made dipping sauce, so good!! The recipe is very simple. Put the wrapped and blanched wontons into the steamer, boil the water and steam over medium heat for 8 minutes. Finally, add Mix the steamed wontons with the sauce and serve. If you steam it too much and can't finish it, pour some scallion oil on it and put it in the refrigerator to keep it from sticking. You can take it out ...

  Try this simple Crispy Homemade Seafood Tofu! This Seafood Tofu, also called Signature Tofu ( 招牌豆腐 ), is a signature dish that is widely offered in Chinese restaurants and is quite excellent. Fortunately, it's quite simple to prepare this delicious dish at home! There are basically just three easy stages involved in making homemade seafood tofu: Combine all ingredients, then steam the tofu mixture before deep-frying it to a perfect texture. This is a delectable meal of deep-fried tofu with soft tofu, seafood (typically prawns and fish), carrots, coriander, and spring onions added for flavour and colour. This recipe can be adjusted as you like, very flexibly. You can add minced meat or cuttlefish. You can make changes to my recipe to suit your taste as you may prefer more of one ingredient and less of another. I am using mackerel for this recipe. In fact, you can choose any kind of firm white fish. Or you can use salmon also. The inside is extremely soft and bursting with ...

  Lu Rou Fan, also known as Taiwanese Braised Pork Rice, is a relatively frequent dish found in street markets and restaurant stalls inTaiwan. It is said that the best braised pork rice in Taiwan is at Keelung Miaokou Night Market( 基隆廟口夜市 ) I haven’t tried the braised pork rice there. I’ve had Jiufen ( 九份 ) braised pork rice. I adore the succulent braised pork belly drenched in a delightfully savory sauce. It is always served in a bowl by adding an egg on top. What a bliss on a bowl!!  But I'm giving a twist with this braised pork. I am going to pair it with noodles in my own way, so I name it Lu Rou Mian ( 卤肉面 ).  I am using quail egg, you may replace it with regular eggs.  The dish is very similar Hong Shao Rou （红烧肉） or red cooked pork. It’s all about the size of the pork belly cut and the kind of aromatics and spices used. While Hong Shao Rou involves big, luscious chunks of pork belly, Lu Rou Fan is almost like a braised meat sauce.   INGREDIENTS ...

Many of the traditional Cantonese meals are well-known both domestically and internationally. Among these, Sweet and Sour Pork ( 咕噜肉 ) is a traditional Cantonese dish that must be mentioned. The method of making this sweet and sour pork is to cut the pork and marinate and then starch. Deep fried it to make the fried meat have a crispy exterior and tender interior.   And then tossed in a sweet and sour sauce with chunks of onions, assorted bell peppers and the most unique ingredient which is “PINEAPPLE”. The taste is particularly rich because the sweet and sour pork is encased in the sauce. It is tart in addition to being crispy. The balance of fresh, salty, and sweet flavours is incredibly tasty without being greasy at all. These days, tomato sauce or ketchup are the most often utilized sauce ingredients in this recipe. I prefer to utilize a few different sorts of ingredients that I combine to make my sauce since it has a lot more umami than ketchup. The sugar’s ideal balancing...