Stir-Fried Baby Kai Lan Stir-Fried Baby Kai Lan with Garlic (清炒小芥兰) If you like vegetables, you’ll sure like Baby Kailan (Baby Kai Lan or known as Chinese Broccoli or Chinese Kale). I’ve came across some friends, told me that they loved this veggie, but could only eat it when dinning out. Cooking this at home was almost impossible as…
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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)….
Stir-Fried Pig’s Liver with Spring Onion and Ginger (姜葱豬肝)
“Stir-fried pig’s liver with scallion and Hua Diao rice wine. You will like this, if you like livers, but if you don’t vary the dish with other meat types and adapt the recipe, it’s still perfectly fine though!” Of course, I was following up with the other “Scholar dish“, or perhaps, it’s just the usual…
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…