Children of the Sea meets Children of the Sky (Egg on Egg, a Karasumi Love Story)

Children of the Sea meets Children of the Sky (Egg on Egg, a Karasumi Love Story)

Oh there are so many ways to use karasumi (dried cured mullet roe), that briny, delicious gift from the oceans. Today it tops my breakfast to elevate my first meal of the day into decadence… Ingredients 1 slice of Homemade Hokkaido Milk Bread, toasted (recipe 

Karasumi / Bottarga / Wu Yu Zi / 烏魚子  (Cured Mullet Roe) Pasta

Karasumi / Bottarga / Wu Yu Zi / 烏魚子 (Cured Mullet Roe) Pasta

Every Autumn I import a few boxes of cured Mullet roe, also called bottarga-karasumi-wu yu zi, from Taiwan to give out as gifts during the holiday season and it’s always a hit. Karasumi is a delicacy in Asia, made from the sacs of the mullet 

Man Tou Recipe

Man Tou Recipe

A lot of my childhood memories of breakfast and late night snacks surround these fluffy, sweet, steamed breads that would accompany rice porridge and all sorts of salty pickles and other cured fare. We’d dip them in spicy doufuru (fermented tofu) drizzled in sesame oil 

Pork Soup Dumplings

Pork Soup Dumplings

I had been meaning to make pork dumplings with hairy bittercress for a while and called my mom to ask what she usually adds to hers, but in talking to her, she said if I have any leftover gelatin based broth, I can add it 

Sui Dou Chi 水豆豉 (Brined Fermented Soy Beans)

Sui Dou Chi 水豆豉 (Brined Fermented Soy Beans)

If you don’t like natto, you could most likely skip this post, but if you do, then this wouldn’t be too out of your depth. This is something out of my childhood and my ancestral province of Sze Chuan. I used black soybeans but traditionally, 

Steamed Vegetable Dumpling (蔬蒸餃)

Steamed Vegetable Dumpling (蔬蒸餃)

I made this with hairy bittercress but you could potentially do it with a lot of different mild flavored greens (spinach, shepherd’s purse, edible chrysanthemum, goosefoot, stinging nettle). My particular version only has 3 main ingredients–egg, shiitake mushroom, and the greens, but other versions can include 

Chinese Marinated Pork Kidney

Chinese Marinated Pork Kidney

Welcome to my new website! I finally migrated everything over to wordpress and am still in the process of tweaking and making sure everything is running smoothly for your viewing enjoyment. To celebrate this move, I present to you a childhood favorite of mine: Marinated 

Yang Rou Jia Mo (Easter Leftovers: Lamb Stuffed Pancake)

Yang Rou Jia Mo (Easter Leftovers: Lamb Stuffed Pancake)

We went over to my husband’s mom’s house for Easter yesterday, and came away with quite a bit of lamb. My husband actually really dislikes lamb and often complains about the gaminess of it. However, he is quite fond of Mongolian and Xi’an stir fries 

Melty Pork Over Rice (Lu Rou Fan)

Melty Pork Over Rice (Lu Rou Fan)

This particular dish has a fond place in my memories–a national Taiwanese specialty, it brings me back to days when my grandparents used to take us out into Flushing for lunch or dinner. My version is a bit more decadent than traditional ones you might 

Easy Peanut Chicken Side Dish

Easy Peanut Chicken Side Dish

This is a really easy side dish for those hot summer days when you just have very little appetite for anything else. I sometimes make this if I have leftover rotisserie chicken in the fridge, since it’s a fast and family-pleasing way to use it