Chinese Orange Chicken 香橙雞球
One of the most popular Chinese take-out dish -Orange Chicken, that you can easily made at home, and guarantee that is way better than take-out!
Crispy fried chicken with delicious sweet and sour orange sauce, it is very appetising and perfect to serve with plain rice. Perfect homey meal that everyone loves!
Steamed Eggplants with Preserved Vegetables 梅菜蒸茄子
Lately I love this homey Chinese dish very much, it is so simple but super delicious. I usually use preserved vegetable to cook meat patties and pork belly , but never try something like this and it surprise me 🙂
Baked Sago Pudding 焗西米布甸
You can always find sago in Asian dessert, we like to put the sago in milk or coconut milk as a sweet soup. Or put inside a jelly or pudding. When I was young, I can always find this sago pudding in Chinese restaurant during yum cha, it is one of the popular dim sum/ dessert. But now it is not easy to find this old-fashion dessert.
Red Bean Buns (Dou Sha Bao) 豆沙包
Chinese fluffy, warm and pillow-soft steamed buns with sweet red bean paste filling. These little buns are perfect for breakfast or dim sum at Chinese restaurant when you have yum cha.
You can have different fillings for the buns, lotus paste, custard, or whatever you like. They are so easy to make and keep well in freezer. Whenever you need these lovely buns, just steam to reheat it, it will become soft again.
Chinese Scallion Pancakes (Easy Version) 簡易版蔥油餅
To make traditional Chinese scallion pancakes can be a little time consuming and complicated…so this is the very simple and easy version for the busy (or lazy) me!
Actually it is just pancake with looooot of scallion, so aromatic. Pan-fry until both sides are golden, there you have, perfect snack!
Pork Chops in Tomato Sauce 蕃茄燴豬排
Simple homey dish alert! Many people still like to cook dinner after a long day work, it is healthier and it is just nice to have dinner at home right?
This is one of my favourite Chinese homey dishes – pork chops in tomato sauce. Have vegetable and meat in it, with sour and sweet tomato sauce. You can cook it in 20 minutes, perfect to serve with plain rice and most importantly, it is perfect lunch box meal. Try and hope you love it too!
Chinese Red Date Cake 紅棗糕
Chinese new year is coming, many of us are so busy making Chinese cakes, radish cake, sugar cake (Nian Go) , water chestnut cake….and this red date cake is my favourite. It made of red date paste, not too sweet but with very nice date flavour.
In Chinese restaurant, they always serve steamed date cake with many layered. This one is just one layer (so much easier!) and you can slice it and pan-fry it with egg. Sooooo yummy!
Chinese Turnip Cake (Lo Bak Go) 臘味蘿蔔糕
Chinese new year is coming! This is my favourite festival, it just give you hope and goal that the new year will be better! Chinese love to celebrate new year with LOTS of food, well actually for every festival!
Sachima 黃金薩琪瑪
Sachima is a very popular Chinese pastry, it made of fried strands of batter and stick together with syrup. People like to eat this also in Chinese New Year, they are crispy, sweet and delicious!
I can’t believe actually it is very easy to make Sachima by yourself. You can add some ingredients like raisins, walnuts, peanuts, dried cranberries….They are so yummy and good gift idea for Chinese New Year too!
Pear & Red Date Sweet Soup 滋潤雪梨紅棗糖水
Winter is here, even in Dubai! I can just feel how dry it is of my skin, throat and whole body! Chinese people believe that drinking sweet soup can help to make your body feel better and healthier.
This is one of the easiest sweet soup perfect for winter – simply with some pears, red dates and wolf berries. A big pot of sweet soup that you can share with family. Enjoy!
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