“A savoury scrumptious crayfish dish to symbolise a life filled with strength and vitality!” While it’s true that sometimes nothing beats the convenience and festive atmosphere to dine-in at a restaurant during occasions, it can also set you back $100 – 200 or more for a festive meal which you may prepare by your own….
Category: Recipe
The Recipes
Stir-Fried Asparagus & Prawns with XO Sauce (锦上添花)
“Make the perfection to even more perfect.” You don’t want meals with just meat, meat and meat throughout the CNY. Vegetables are essential to our diets, too, even during the festive, of course! And there are many greens can still be symbolical, for instances, the asparagus I’ve cooked here. I named this dish as 锦上添花…
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…
Golden Shrimps (with Salted Egg Yolk) – 黄金笑虾虾
“One of the important Chinese festive seafood dishes. It helps to spread laughter around!” Chinese Lunar New Year, we (Chinese) emphasize on cooking symbolic dishes with auspicious dish name. Prawn, or called it shrimp, is one of the compulsory items to be used to cook CNY dishes as shrimp, in Cantonese, is pronounced as HA (虾)….
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,…
Prawns in Thick Miso & Tomato (with Egg Drop) Gravy
“You can never resist this beautiful and lips-smacking prawns with thick miso and (chili) tomato gravy dish.” This dish was introduced by one of the old friends years back. So, I envisioned and cooked this dish at home recently, with the ‘recipe’ left in my memory. So, I would say this dish is more like…