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Category: Festive & Special

Special occasion and festive recipes for Chinese New Year, Hari Raya, Christmas and family gatherings. Impress your guests with these gourmet Asian dishes made at home.

Asparagus with XO sauce

Stir-Fried Asparagus & Prawns with XO Sauce (锦上添花)

Posted on February 12, 2010December 28, 2022 by PatriCa BB 雪冰

“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…

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My Wok Life Cooking Blog Honey Sesame Chicken (甜蜜金凤 - 密糖芝麻鸡)

Honey Sesame Chicken (甜蜜金凤 – 密糖芝麻鸡)

Posted on February 10, 2010December 28, 2022 by PatriCa BB 雪冰

“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…

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Golden prawns with salted egg yolk

Golden Shrimps (with Salted Egg Yolk) – 黄金笑虾虾

Posted on February 9, 2010December 28, 2022 by PatriCa BB 雪冰

“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)….

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chicken chop

Fusion-style Chicken Chop

Posted on December 30, 2009December 28, 2022 by PatriCa BB 雪冰

“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…

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Candle-light dinner

Homemade Candlelit Western Dinner for this Christmas : ROMANTIC

Posted on December 27, 2009December 3, 2023 by PatriCa BB 雪冰

Candlelit western dinner at home for a special occasion, your heart and effort will surely be especially appreciated. Mywoklife Stay-home celebration was to avoid the crowd… and spending on costly meal outside, just for the festive.. Western Christmas dinner? You, too, could prepare it by your own at home.. It was never too difficult or tedious…

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Sweet potato and rice ball dessert

Glutinous Rice Balls Tang Yuan and Sweet Potatoes Dessert Soup (冬至送甜蜜)

Posted on December 21, 2009July 6, 2024 by PatriCa BB 雪冰

Glutinous Rice Balls Tang Yuan and Sweet Potatoes 冬至送甜蜜: Happy Dongzhi, with hearty Tang Yuan, for a Treat of Sweetness MyWokLife Glutinous Rice Balls Tang Yuan and Sweet Potatoes 冬至送甜蜜 Tomorrow is Tuesday (22nd Dec), it’s also the Chinese Dōngzhì Festival (冬至), or you called it in more proper English term as Winter Solstice Festival. This…

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