Shanghai Fried Noodles

Want a light and healthy meal? Here comes this classic Shanghai fried noodles that can be easily found in most Shanghai restaurants in Hong Kong.

If you like noodles as a quick and light meal, this is a must-try one. The upside of home cooking is that you can make the dish with anything left in your fridge or comes in handy. A side note, I added a secret ingredient to this Shanghai fried noodles and get my family hooked.

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Scallion Pancakes

Scallion pancake (aka green onion pancake) is a classic Chinese snack, traditionally pair with a cup of soy milk. It's soft, tender inside and crispy outside. It'll make you want more for sure.

What’s your favourite for lunch?

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Wood Ear and Chicken Soup

Wood ear is a kind of edible fungus often used in Chinese cooking. Wood ear is black in colour, so looks not quite appealing to eyes. Yet, we can’t underestimate its value to our health. It can help lower blood pressure and cholesterol.

I often use wood ear in my cooking, like Chinese New Year traditional dish, stir-fry with chicken, make the classic hot and sour soup and imitation shark fin soup.  If you feel like having a vegetarian dish, wood ear will work with many vegetables. You can make this Stir Fried Bean Sprouts, Carrots & Wood Ear Fungus dish. When I make dumplings, I also like putting in some wood ear to add a texture in the fillings. Ever thought about making san choi bao (lettuce wraps) with wood ears? They taste really good with roast duck meat too.

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Stir Fried Prawns with Mango

Prawns and mangoes are perfect partners for making a perfect dish, like this prawn stir fried dish. Seeing hubby enjoying it very much increase my joy of cooking.

Mango is in season here down under. It’s my family’s all-time favourite fruit. What makes me even feel happier is that the mango tree grown in our backyard bears more large mangoes this year. Every mango is large, juicy and sweet.

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Braised Pork Ribs with Pumpkin

Pork and pumpkin are good partners to produce an appealing dish. Here it’s one of my favourite dishes, Braised Pork Ribs with Pumpkin.

Whenever I go shopping for groceries, I’d often buy a pumpkin back home because their shape and colour are beautiful, taste heavenly sweet, as well as they are rich in antioxidants, vitamins, and minerals.

After moving to Australia, I have been addicted to eating pumpkin whether it’s cooked in Western or Asian way. There are several different kinds of pumpkin? Which kind is the best? One of my friends said that butternut squash is the best.

Yeah, I agree with her. For me, it’s also the best kind to bake in an oven. When it comes to cooking them in Asian way, I just feel the Jap/Kent pumpkin is the most suitable for being braised with meat.

Here it’s one of my favourite dishes, Braised Pork Ribs with Pumpkin. Just a side note, I found lots of Chinese food blogs out there that are praising the combination of pork and pumpkin. It seems that pork and pumpkin are good partners to produce an appealing dish.

Do you like eating pumpkin? Which kind of pumpkin do you like the most?

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Beef Ribs in Black Pepper Sauce (Pressure Cooker or Stovetop)

The beef short ribs are turned soft and tender very quickly in my Instant Pot. They are juicy and delicious.

This recipe is a super-quick one suitable for pressure cooking if you have one. I got these beef ribs from supermarket that were quite thickly cut. I also inserted stovetop instructions in notes section below the recipe.

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Shaoxing Goji Chicken (花雕杞子雞煲)

Traditionally, this Shaoxing Goji Chicken is a claypot dish made in winter days. I reckon this dish can be enjoyed on any days throughout the year. It’s so tasty with splendid aroma, perfectly goes with steamed rice.

I like the colour contrast of this chicken dish. It’s so appealing to the family’s eyes. Once it’s served on our dining table, everyone was eager to dig in and taste.

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