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It’s 2023 holiday time!! Hustling to two parties today so making some cute Christmas themed cookies 🙂
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Tried a lot of delicious fig desserts when I travelled to France, so want to catch the season of fig and make a cake out of it to share with friends at our long-due reunion trip!
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Noting yummy foods and desserts in Paris, Strasbourg and Lyon!
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During my first 10-day trip to France, my partner had bought me to “only” four Michelin restaurants during our 10-day trip. This is just a quick review for these four restaurants — all four of them are one-star Michelin in 2023, some have had a few years of Michelin while one just got it in 2023; two locate in Paris and two in the gastronomical capital of France — Lyon. It’s interesting how the top two of my favorites are actually fusion cuisine rather than classic french foods 😀
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Similar to always ordering croissant at new bakery, ordering egg tarts at new dim sum restaurants, I always order beef pho at new vietnamese restaurant. It is always the first dish I want to try and see how good the restaurant is. Its sweet and warm broth from various beef parts, and even richer fragrance, flavor with the thai basil, jalapeno garnish, is always healing a long day of work or social events!
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Singapore Noodle is a classic dish in so, it is also a must-have on menu of Hong Kong / Cantonese cafe 茶餐厅.. just like curry chicken 咖喱鸡，white / red sauce over chicken steak, pork chop 白汁/红汁鸡排/猪排. With pre-made Singapore noodle mix, it is much more easier to replicate this delicious dish!
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We had this dish in a Taiwanese fusion restaurant, Piglet & Co. The pork ribs’ texture, flavor, marination, was just RIGHT. Honestly, my reverse engineering’s recipe below does not even replicate Piglet & Co.’s pork rib..
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Mango sticky rice has always been a dessert I love to order in Thai restaurants, but guilt by the sugar level it has… this time I tried to make mango sticky rice in a healthy way, with low-fat coconut milk, monkfruit sweetener and toasted green beans! The toasted, crispy green bean adds an extra texture to the soft sticky rice and mango.
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Different areas in China dry pork belly differently, but we have one thing in common — always dry pork belly, sausage, wings, other meat in the cold and dry winter and enjoy them during and shortly after Chinese New Year. Cantonese dried pork belly is so versatile and can be used in many dishes like Clay Pot rice, stir fry veggies, etc. When mom dries pork belly back home on top of her balcony, I was really jealous as I do not have a rooftop, even I have all the Cali sunshine mom is jealous of. I decided to sneak up my apartment rooftop and dry just 2 slices of pork belly. Let’s see how they turn out!
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Baked babka quite a while ago, made me wanna bake toast, the soft toast that still attaches to each other as you tear down a piece. There are so many flavors available, from Asian toasts like scallion & meat floss, red bean & coconut custard, sesame, to western toasts like ham & cheese! Still improving my toast making skills, but after 4 toasts, I tend to believe in using this recipe.
