Chinese Cucumber Salad
This crunchy sweet and sour Chinese Cucumber Salad with a hint of spiciness is a perfect side dish to increase your appetite. And don’t forget to make yourself a refreshing cucumber drink with the leftover cucumber juice!
How to Make Strawberry Boba
This recipe teaches you how to make homemade chewy, sweet, bouncing strawberry boba with fresh strawberries! Pink and shinny strawberry boba paired with creamy and refreshing iced matcha ice-cream latte, this pretty and delicious drink will bring you so much afternoon delight!
Indoor grill recipe (with one for all BBQ sauce)
This one for all indoor grill recipe teach you how to make the most classic Chinese BBQ sauce. With this sauce, you can enjoy authentic Chinese BBQ anytime at home. Sizzling skewers of meat, tofu, mushrooms, and vegetables are my favorite Chinese street foods.
Orange Tofu (Vegan Orange Chicken)
This orange tofu recipe is a vegan, healthier, and easier adaptation of the popular Orange Chicken in Panda. Crispy air fried tofu paired perfectly with the iconic sweet and sour orange chicken sauce.
Chinese Tomato Egg Recipe
Every Chinese make tomato egg stir fry slightly differently. Therefore, there could be 1.402 billion methods to make this dish! No matter how you cook it, the combination of tomato and egg means that this dish is easy, cheap, delicious, and healthy. Now let me show you how I make my NO.1 comfort food – Chinese tomato egg stir fry!
Braised Pork Belly Recipe
I bet this red braised pork belly (红烧肉) is most Chinese people’s favorite childhood dish. The savory, glossy, and sticky sauce of this dish can totally turn everyone into a RICE KILLER! Our grandparents always make the best 红烧肉! I have adjusted this recipe for years and finally perfectly duplicated my grandpa’s red braised pork belly. By blanching the pork belly for 30 minutes before pan frying and pan-frying the pork belly without cooking oil, we can get rid of extra oil from the meat and make the meat extra tender.
Steamed Buns Recipe – Orange Mantou
Mandarin oranges and steamed buns are two traditional Chinese new year foods, with meanings of good luck, wealth, and thriving. This recipe teaches you how to combine these two lucky foods together, and make steamed buns with a 100% mandarin orange looking! They are so realistic, you can even peel them as you would a mandarin orange. I mixed in one real orange in this pile of buns, are you able to find it out?
Glass Noodle Stir Fry with Cabbages
This easy cabbage glass noodle stir fry can be made within 20 minutes! It’s a perfect quick workday or weekend lunch. You can also easily adapted it to be vegan friendly by substituting the eggs with frim tofu. Mr He and I used to share a box of it every single day after school on our way home. Our stomachs would have no more space for dinner, however, the smell of this street food was just too tempting for us to resist.
Pomelo Flower DIY
When you eat a pomelo, you can use its zest to make Yuzu salt, use its pith to make my “grapefruit” skin candies (yes, I called that a “grapefruit” while that was actually a pomelo), how about its membranes? We can use these pink and glowing membranes to make a rose-like flower, which is so beautiful, vibrant, and vivid, with a refreshing pomelo fragrance.
Fried Bananas
These crispy deep fried bananas just look like shinning golden ingots! Eat more golden banana fritters during Lunar New Year, and earn a lot of golden ingots in the coming year. If you don’t like eggs or too much oil, I’ve also created a vegan and an air-fryer version of this recipe! Try out this 10-minute easy dessert and become richer this year!
