When we were in Taipei one of my favourite restaurants is Kao Chi. Kao Chi serves really delicious Shanghai cuisine and one of the dishes we ordered was this really delicious
Cooked Rice with Bak Choy and Gammon
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Stir Fried Rice Cake with Spring Greens and Pork recipe
Hello everyone, I’m home! So two days ago we returned from our holiday and we’re still suffering from jet leg (not helped by both of
Prawn and Scallop Shumai Recipe
It’s only 12 days now and I’m going back home for two weeks. I try to go back to my home country, Taiwan, once every couple of
Egg Spinach and Squid Roll Recipe
Recently I’ve been busy doing a series of speeches in Glasgow for Chinese New Year. I was asked by www.ricefield.org which is
Chicken Satay Recipe
Something my husband’s colleagues keep asking for is chicken satay. They are fully aware that I’m a chef and they’ve tried many of my dishes, including chow mein, salad
Mustard Green Chicken Soup A Taiwanese New Year Dish
Mustard Green Chicken Soup is one of our traditional Taiwanese New Year dishes. The
Fa Gao A Taiwanese new year dessert recipe
I hope everyone had a great Chinese new year this year. After I introduced you to a few Chinese New Year dishes and explained why
Fortune Squid Blossom Chinese New Year Dish
As you can probably tell from a lot of my posts I really love seafood and today I wanted to make a squid dish. I named this dish
Eight Treasure Rice Pudding Chinese new year dish
Eight Treasures Rice Pudding is a traditional Chinese new year pudding. Eight treasures
Chili Bean Paste Fish and Tofu Chinese new year dish
Chili bean paste fish and tofu is the name of this Chinese fish dish. This dish is also my
Sixi Scallop authentic Chinese seafood dish
Happy New Year everyone! Sixi scallops is my first post of 2011. I decided to make a quick, tasty and healthy dish for the first day of the year. Sixi in Chinese means “four happiness” or “four lucky, joy”, which
Fish Fragrant Tofu Chinese tofu recipe
I’ve mentioned so many benefits of tofu in my previous blog post and here is another tofu recipe that I want to share with you today.
Stir Fried Pickled Bamboo shoot with chili beef mince
Stir-fry pickled bamboo shoot with chilli beef mince is one of my favourite dishes that my
Steamed Tofu with prawn
Yesterday I went to the supermarket opposite my house, Sainsbury’s, and was really happy to find that they are now selling tofu. One of
Stir Fry Lamb with BBQ Sauce
Edinburgh has been snowing for five days now. The snow has affected most public transport and people are really struggling to
Cantonese Roast Crackling Pork
Recently I’ve been seriously struggling with daylight. I planned to cook three dishes this week but with the sun now starting to go
Crystal Dumplings
Crystal dumplings are a unique kind of dumpling that takes the name crystal as it looks a bit like a crystal on the outside with it’s almost translucent skin. Obviously this
Fried Wonton authentic recipe
Wontons are a very popular dish in China, Taiwan and Hong Kong. Even different provinces in China have different names and
Tan Tsai Noodles
In Edinburgh the season has changed once again and it’s turned really cold now. I feel like I’m still recovering from our holiday where we had really hot weather but recently
Deep fried chicken legs with savoury sticky rice
Normally for female chefs it’s very hard to get promotion and near impossible in my home country but no matter how hard you work
Crispy Chicken with Chili Sauce
Crispy chicken with chili sauce, known in Chinese as 椒麻雞 is a dish that my grandpa cooked for me often when I was young. I
Wuxi Ribs Redone
Recently I spent a week in Spain, which was absolutely fabulous and I’ll be blogging pictures from this holiday here soon, but while on holiday I received two really negative comments for my Wuxi Ribs recipe. I genuinely forgot to
Stir fried Cats Ear Noodle
I can imagine what you are thinking. Oh no, an Eastern person has cooked her cat! Don’t worry, our cat Popo still has his ears. Cat’s ears noodles is an interesting dish with an
Wuxi Ribs
A long time ago I watched a Taiwanese cooking show which taught people how to cook Wuxi Ribs. This dish needs to simmer for a couple of hours to make the meat on the ribs really tender. For most people, I
Donkey rolling on the ground 驢打滾
The Fringe Festival is finally going to finish soon and my life can finally can go back to normal. I’m sorry that I can’t reply messages lately but I did try my best. I really miss updating new recipes on my
Prawn with Pineapple
I don’t like to moan but the fact is I’m really exhausted from work. As mentioned in a previous post the Fringe and Tattoo festivals are on at the moment and Edinburgh is horrendously busy. I always crave food with strong flavours, such as
Steamed Egg with Seafood Sauce
In Edinburgh I believe August must be every Edinburgh Chef’s worst nightmare. Edinburgh is an extremely busy city throughout the year
Singapore Noodle cooking class with politician
Today, I had an interesting cooking class. My student Robin Harper is a Green party’s
Raspberry Snowflake Cake
There are couple things that have made me feel very happy recently. The first thing is my head chef asked me for the Peking duck recipe for the new dish on our restaurant
Xian Lamb Kebab authentic Chinese kebab recipe
Four years ago I travelled to Xian, China with my husband. One of favourite places was Xi’an. Not only was the weather more