by Jay | Aug 8, 2021 | Asian, Chicken, Chinese, Fusion, Japanese
During the COVID pandemic, I eat a lot of lunches during weekdays at home. To save time, I buy pre-cooked dishes from a local Japanese grocer. Chicken pirikara is always in my shopping bag. You can also buy pork and squid pirikara from the grocer. In Japan, these are...
by Jay | Jul 12, 2021 | Asian, Chinese, Deserts, drinks, Fusion
A few years ago, there was an argument about if all the planted based drinks, such as almond milk, soy milk, macadamiamilk… should be called milk as its definition is “Milk is a nutrient-rich liquid food produced by the mammary glands of mammals” As a consumer, I...
by Jay | Apr 12, 2021 | Asian, Chinese, Fusion, Rice, Seafood
This dish is named after Yangzhou, a city in Jiangsu, China. This is another dish from the region I grew up. Again, it is a dish I never ate when I grew up when most people finally left food scarcity behind. Yangzhou fried rice is probably the most famous variety of...
by Jay | Mar 6, 2021 | Asian, Chinese, Pork
“Lion’s head”, as local people call it, is a pork meatball dish from Huaiyang Cuisine in Eastern China. It got the name from the shape of the meatball which resembles the head of a Chinese Guardian Lion. “Lion head” has two versions: red (cooked with soy sauce) and...
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