“An authentic Asian chicken dish that truly whets your appetite.” This wonderfully aromatic chicken dish is one of my favourite Cantonese dishes. We called it 豆豉鸡 (Dow Xi Gai), in Cantonese. It’s easy on preparation and big on flavour! Prepare more rice and you may end up double your usual amount this time. Remember to…
Category: Meat & Poultry
Meat & Poultry
Honey Sesame Chicken (甜蜜金凤 – 密糖芝麻鸡)
“Meal for Chinese Lunar New Year vs Western Valentine’s Day. “ So happen that this year’s Chinese Lunar New Year coincides with the Western Valentine’s Day. So, you might want to cook some sweet-hearted and auspicious with good symbolization dishes. Which condiment that first comes to your mind? The very first condiment I could think…
Chicken Wing in Honeyed Char Siew Sauce (密糖叉烧汁鸡翼)
“Simply easy, simple savoury“ One of my readers was asking for a recipe of 密汁鸡 (Pronounciation in Mandarin as “Mi Zhi Ji”) in my FB Fanclub. Without her further elaboration on the dish title, I assumed she wanted the honeyed chicken. However, I had an urge of making the honey char siew flavour version instead, last weekend. So,…
Scholar Dishes (状元肴)
“Two important dishes to be eaten on the 1st day of school to symbolise an auspicious start of formal education for schoolers” How your cooking and dishes would help in your kid’s studies? Nothing about supplementary food or valuable nutrients in the food you cooked, it’s purely a personal belief, or called it a superstition…
Fusion-style Chicken Chop
“When ‘East meets the West’ Chicken Chop… Check it out!” It was unexpectedly tasty.. I loved Western food, and was pretty head cracking for how to make my cooking much more impressive than usual, just for the special occassion like Christmas celebration. I was just trying out casually, without any firmer clue in mind, I used ‘common sense’ to do the…
Chicken Sauté Provençale
“French Cooking” I asked my friends and fans, in My Wok Life FaceBook Club, if they would like to learn some French recipes, and here I am going to share my experience and recipe of simple French dishes, besides those I learnt at Palate Sensations. For a Chinese cook, like me, to cook French cuisine at home was…