When you attend a Chinese wedding banquet dinner, you will always see Chinese roast chicken as part of the banquet course. Chinese roast chicken is a favourite dish in banquets and Chinese new year diners. It is actually very easy to make at home! You can dip it with some five spice barbecue salt or with a garlic chilli sauce!
This is a commonly seen dish in many Chinese restaurants. Tofu is super easy to make at home and it is very high in nutrients! If you are looking to make just egg tofu, you can omit the spinach. You can also get creative by infusing other ingredients into the tofu mixture!
Radish cake is a commonly seen dim sum dish in many Chinese restaurant. It is made with freshly grated white radish which adds the sweetness to the dish. There are also many ingredients which adds to the unami flavor of the dish. You can choose to pan sear the sliced radish cake or eat it steamed.
Stracciatella soup is a traditional Italian soup made from typically chicken broth with drizzle egg mixture and topped with lots of parsely and cheese. This is a very popular soup dish around Rome in the Lazio region of central Italy. It is very similar to the Chinese egg drop soup we find in the Chinese restaurant. Certain recipes call for pasta and other vegetables such as tomatoes etc. It is definately one of the easiest Italian recipe to make!
Deep fried spring roll can be found in any chinese restaurants. It is sometimes called as egg roll in the Chinese restaurant in Western countries. It is often served as a snack or as a dim sum dish.
Hot and sour soup is a common appetiser dish found in Chinese/ Dim sum restaurant. It is a thick slurry soup packed with julienned ingredients such as tofu, mushrooms, fungus and meat. If you like an extra spicy kick to this dish, you can add in bird’s eye chilli to gear up the heat level!
Hor Fun is a favourite zi char noodle dish among the Singaporeans. It is basically a stir fried rice noodles drenched with a thick gravy made from soup broth and seafood. You would be surprised at how easy it is to make this famous dish at home!
Onigiri is a triangle shaped sushi wrapped in Japanese seaweed. Onigiri is my favourite food to pack for work lunch, road trips and picnic. You can actually make onigiri a day in advance and just pack them in your bento lunch.
Chawanmushi is a Japanese style steamed egg using daishi as the stock base. Dashi is the esscence of the dish which gave it the unami flavour. It is steamed in individual portion, usually in a tea cup.
Yakitori is a must have dish at a Izakaya place. Izakaya is a wine bar where Japanese hangs out after work for Sake and bar snacks. Yakitori is similar to our local Satay in a way that it is a skewker of chicken meat grilled over charcoal fire.
Soondubu Jjigae is one of the easiest Korean dish to make at home. All you need to do is to throw all the ingredients in the stone pot and let it simmer. It is a popular dish in Korea and the essence to making a good tofu stew is using quality soy bean paste and red pepper paste.
Jjin Mandu is a Korean version of potstickers and very similar to the Japanese gyoza. There are many variations of fillings which you can customise. You can add kimchi, cheese or even truffle if you are feeling extravagant.
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