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Mapo Tofu is a classic Sichuan dish. It has a numbing sensation when you eat it. It’s spicy, hot, and savory. It’s definitely my kind of good eats!   According to legend, an elderly widow in the Qing Dynasty invented Mapo Tofu. She…
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Rice is in the center of Vietnamese cuisine. It is grown throughout Vietnam and especially more condensed in Red River Delta in the north and Mekong River Delta in the south. Rice plays such an essential role in Vietnamese cuisine…
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Char siu is a type of Cantonese roasted meat. It literary translate to fork roast. It is traditionally skewed with a long fork and then roasts in an oven. My version is not as complicated, but the taste is beyond it. So I’m sure that…
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Mango Sticky Rice is a classic Thai dessert. In Thai, we call it khaoniao mamuang. It’s also one of my favorite desserts of all time. Growing up in Bangkok, I remember eating khaoniao mamuang all the time. Especially during the hottest…
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Japanese chashu is a topping for ramen. The pork belly is rolled up and then braised until it’s succulent and instantly melt in your mouth. It is also my favorite topping for ramen. But when you eat out, they usually only give you two…
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There are so many myths going around about this brand being “discovered” due to some luck or that product becoming superstar on a cooking show because the founder was “in the right place at the right time”. The truth is way…
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Thailand is known as the Land of Smiles because of its genuinely happy and welcoming people. Bangkok is the capital of Thailand, and that is where I called home for 8 years of my childhood. One of my favorite Thai dishes is Yum Woon…
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 The Chinese Dragon Boat Festival, or Duanwu Festival, has a history of more than 2,000 years. It is celebrated on the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar, which falls on June 7 this year. There are many legends about…
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Chicken sticky rice wrapped in lotus leaf is a classic Cantonese Dim Sum dish. It is said this dish was born in the night market of Guangzhou before the 1950s. Initially, the sticky rice and bite-size chicken pieces were packed in…
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Braised Pork Belly in Soy Sauce is a popular home cooking dish in Malaysia and Singapore. And it's about to become one of your family’s favorite dishes too. One of the most important ingredients for this dish is soy sauce and with…
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 When I was a kid, my parents took me to a small Sichuan restaurant in the neighborhood with some of their friends. One of them ordered a dish called “shui zhu niu rou,” which literally translates to "water-boiled beef."…
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