Cantonese Salt and Pepper Chicken

Salt and pepper dish is a signature dish of Cantonese cuisine, also known as Guangdong cuisine and commonly named as Yue cuisine throughout China. As its name suggest, it originated from Guangdong, the Southern region of China. Cantonese cuisine is well known for its novel and delicate flavour, as well …

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Chicken with Celery and Cashew Nuts

Chicken Cashew Nuts Gluten Free

Chicken Cashew Nuts stir-fry is a classic Cantonese dish commonly served in a Chinese restaurant. It is also a very popular Chinese take-out dish. Familiar and favourite variation of this dish is using prawns or beef as the main ingredients. Other variations include vegetables like capsicums and broccoli instead of …

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Char Hor Fun (Rice Noodles in Egg Gravy)

Char Hor Fun is a typical street (hawker) Chinese food in Malaysia and Singapore. For many of us, it is also a childhood comfort food that we will never get bored of eating. There are also many Malaysian chain restaurants or food stores all over the world selling this popular …

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Fried Five Spice Chicken with Special Chilli Sauce

Fried chicken has many worldwide variations in different countries and in all types of cuisines with endless twists to the recipes to cater to local tastebuds. For Chinese cuisines, the most popular will be crispy skin chicken and salt and pepper chicken that originated from Southern China, specifically considered as …

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Braised Chicken and Black Fungus

Braising or stewing is a very popular cooking technique in Chinese cuisine. Often, simple braised dishes are classic home cooking one pot comfort food utilising meat like chicken, beef, seafood and vegetables. The main ingredient used for braising is often meat, slow cooked until the meat is soft and tender …

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Hokkien Fried Noodles

Hokkien fried noodles (Hokkien Char Mee) originated from a hawker (street) food stall in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The food stall was owned by a chef named Wong Kian Lee dated all the way back to 1920s. Up until today, the stall is still run by his decedents albeit in a …

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Braised Chicken and Hard Boiled Eggs with Mushrooms

Braising, also called lu wei in Mandarin, is a Chinese cooking technique used to cook protein ingredients in an aromatic sauce base. Other terms used are red cooking, red braising or red stewing. The Sauce base is usually made from soy sauce, dark soy sauce, fermented bean paste, red fermented …

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Chinese Braised Chicken and Potato

Braised Chicken and potato is another simple and classic Chinese home cooking dish. I still remember really well that my mum used to cook this dish quite frequently when I was a kid. I absolutely adore this typical one pot comfort food dish, so easy to prepare and yet so …

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Chicken Nasi Goreng Kampung (Village Fried Rice)

Nasi goreng in Malay or Indonesian language, simply means fried rice, it was also created to prevent wasting leftovers during the pre-refrigeration eras. It is typically served as a homemade breakfast dish, customarily made from left-over rice from the previous night’s dinner. There are infinite varieties of nasi goreng, normally …

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Chicken and Ginger Wine

This is a typical and very popular Chinese confinement dish for women during the first 30 days of their postnatal period.  In traditional Chinese medicine, this dish is believed to help promote blood circulation, eliminate wind, keeps the body warm and helps with recovery of the body. But this dish …

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