Chinese + Asian
Spring-y rice noodles are a perfect vehicle for soaking up and carrying the creamy, fragrant and flavourful Thai red curry broth between its strands for the perfect slurp! Bouncy and delicious shrimp balls are simple to make and add hearty protein to the bowl.
A hearty soup loaded with Chinese egg dumplings, Napa cabbage, shiitake mushrooms, bits of salty cured ham and tasty add-ins like mung bean vermicelli, fish balls and goji berries. It eats like comfort food but is healthy and high in protein!
Taiwanese Beef Noodle Soup is an iconic dish with chewy noodles and tender beef in a rich and deeply earthy broth.
This video tutorial walks and talks you through step-by-step how to wrap a dumpling in this Classic Pleats style. You can master this in no time!
This Cold Tomato Somen Noodles recipe is all about simplicity and seasonality—thin, delicate somen noodles served with fresh, bright tomatoes and a savoury sauce. It’s tomato-forward and the kind of meal that lets peak summer tomatoes shine.
Savoury, umami, tangy, sweet and spicy - this is THE BEST DUMPLING SAUCE and it is lip-smacking good! I’ve dialled the flavour just right to make this the only recipe you need.
These Wontons with Yuzu Mayo Shrimp are crunchy, savoury, creamy, spicy and tangy all in one incredible bite. The filling features succulent shrimp, creamy mayonnaise, spicy chili garlic sauce, tangy rice vinegar and aromatic brightness of yuzu juice. I serve these with an easy and delicious dipping sauce — just 4 ingredients of mayo, honey, soy sauce and yuzu juice. Sooo good.
These Crispy Fried Shrimp Nests are made by wrapping seasoned whole shrimp inside a tangle of shredded spring roll wrapper and deep fried until golden. Lemme tell you, they take crunch to the next level!
This quick-cooking TOMATO PRAWN WAFU PASTA is a Japanese-style pasta recipe that marries a simple Italian fresh tomato sauce and elements of distinctly Japanese flavours in the use of soy sauce, dashi powder (optional but easy to use — read recipe note), fresh shiso leaves and shredded nori for garnish. The best of both worlds!
One day I was craving a peanut butter sauce to eat with my dumplings and this EASY SPICY PEANUT BUTTER SAUCE FOR DUMPLINGS was created and tweaked until it is now my go-to. I love it with noodles as well!
This ROSÉ TTEOKBOKKI features chewy-tender rice cakes smothered in a rosé-coloured gochujang sauce that is the perfect balance of creamy, spicy, sweet and umami. Add bacon bits, melty cheese, soft boiled eggs and scallions. Need I say more?
This Scallion Noodle Soup is an easy noodle meal with a tasty pork topping in a rich, peanut butter scallion soup that will have you slurping away in delight. It is basically an amalgamation of my dad’s scallion soup noodles and Dan Dan Mein. Or, two of my favourite noodle dishes in one!
My family loves these Beef Rolls with Enoki and Veggies. Since there is protein, veggies and mushrooms all bundled together, it is the perfect standalone, well-rounded meal which makes me love it even more. They are soo good — with all that sauce — served on rice! Once the bundles are prepared, they cook in a matter of minutes right in the pan along with the sauce. Faster than the time it takes to cook the rice. Dinner is served!
This deeply satisfying Japanese Curry Udon (Kare Udon) has a mild, slightly sweet Japanese-style curry sauce that is dialled just so — at a viscosity somewhere between sauce and broth — to enrobe every chewy udon strand for the perfect bite.
This 10-MINUTE CREAM CORN CHICKEN RICE is my take of a popular homestyle Cantonese dish (粟米雞粒飯) but my version takes only 10 minutes to make! You also won't be needing a knife or chopping board, either. Sound good? GOOD.
This EASY ONE-POT CHINESE NOODLE SOUP is the answer when you need a nourishing and soul-soothing meal that requires hardly any cooking and is done in 20 minutes. Literally, the only skill needed is the ability to throw everything into a pot and boil them!
Succulent shrimp and ground pork in a silky and flavourful sauce SO perfect for serving on steamed rice. A classic American-Chinese take-out dish made better at home.
Large succulent shrimp tossed in a sauce of aromatic scallions and ginger, umami soy sauce and tangy sweet ketchup. This dish begs to be served on a bowl of steamed rice!
These are the easiest spring rolls you will ever make! No filling to prepare and cool before assembling, these Easy Shrimp Spring Rolls are inspired by one of my must-get dim sum items — but simplified. Golden and crunchy exterior with a succulent bite of shrimp inside, you won't be able to stop at one or two or three!
Ketchup hits so many of our taste senses: sweet, tangy and umami. In Japanese SPAGHETTI NAPOLITAN (aka Japanese Ketchup Pasta), it is cooked with smokey bacon, earthy mushrooms, sweet bell peppers and onions in this unique pasta dish. Unique to the Western palate, I mean. This isn’t the ketchup pasta you give a picky toddler and it certainly isn’t a pasta you’ll find at an Italian restaurant. It sounds sacrilegious but don’t knock it til you try it!
Bouncy, thick noodles stir-fried with shrimp, shiitake mushrooms, cabbage, carrots and scallions in a very slurpable, savoury sauce. It’s a 20-minute meal that everyone should have in their weeknight repertoire.
This SPEEDY CHICKEN KATSU DINNER features juicy chicken cutlets served with freshly steamed rice, crunchy shredded cabbage dressed in a 5-minute sesame dressing, and sweet-tangy tonkatsu sauce. This is a meal I can throw together in 30 minutes!
This SHANGHAI “VEGETABLE RICE” is a simple comfort food of my childhood. It is the kind of humble home cooking that I love nd crave. The name of this recipe is a direct translation of its name in Chinese, 上海菜飯. Actually, the character 菜 (pronounced cài in Mandarin or choy in Cantonese) in this context refers specifically to leafy vegetables versus the broader definition of vegetables. Growing up, we simply called this “choy faan” or leafy vegetable rice.
This MUSHROOM AND EGG “GYUDON” JAPANESE RICE BOWL is an easy, healthy 30-minute meal perfect for weeknights. King mushrooms are an amazing swap-in for meat because of its inherent “meaty” texture and ability to soak in loads of flavour. My favourite way to prepare king mushrooms is hand-shredding into strips and sautéing them with a little bit of oil in a searing hot pan until they’re nice and brown on the edges. This technique brings out their flavour and make them satisfyingly “meaty”. If you haven’t tried this, you MUST. I highly recommend it 🤌
Homemade dumplings are a labor of love! And there is nothing else quite like them. People often express surprise to me that the dough for dumpling wrappers is simply made with all purpose flour and water. I think of it as being very similar to making pasta from scratch. You can master it with a little practice and the payoff is so satisfying ☺️
Tender and chewy glutinous rice dough encasing a rich, oozy sweet black sesame filling and served in a light ginger broth, these Black Sesame Dumplings are heaven in every bite!
This EASY CHINESE TOMATO EGG NOODLES is a dish you should most definitely have in your weeknight arsenal. It’s so quick and easy to prepare, and satisfying to eat. Summer tomatoes are glorious in this tomato-forward dish. But honestly I make this all year round because it is such a no-fuss meal I can throw together in 15 minutes. We all need more of those, am I right?
These SHANGHAI SPRING ROLLS are exactly the kind I grew up eating so they are, hands down, my favourite type of spring rolls! My paternal Shanghainese grandmother used to make it and my dad makes it. We usually make a big pot of simple meatless congee to go with it for a weekend lunch everybody looks forward to!
The juicy ground pork and fragrant Chinese chives are such a classic combo for dumplings!