The last time we bought a bottle of Kikkoman soy sauce, it came with a free bottle of spicy teriyaki sauce. Who opened it, I have no idea. But it seemed to ...
Asian Noodles Recipes
Chili Lamb Mazemen
Mazemen is a soupless ramen dish. It is contemporary rather than traditional. For a more in-depth explanation, see my bacon and egg mazemen post. With the ...
Vegetarian Teriyaki Noodles
Speedy and I had tonkotsu ramen for lunch. Yes, that kind of ramen with fat-rich milky broth. Homemade. I'll post the recipe later. Because the broth is ...
Spicy Chicken Teriyaki Noodles
This noodle dish is undeniably Asian but I balk at giving it a singular regional label because it is both Thai and Japanese — the noodles are flavored ...
Hainanese-style Chicken Noodle Soup
If you're a fan of Hainanese chicken rice but cooking a whole chicken is simply too much, here's a trick: use chicken thigh fillets instead. You can cook ...
Clams Hor Fun
Whether you call it hor fun, ho fun, hor fan or ho fan, it's the same wide rice noodles. The most well-known way of cooking it is with beef. I took a ...
Sukiyaki-style Chicken Noodle Soup
Traditional sukiyaki is not a soup but a hotpot dish. This sukiyaki-style chicken noodle soup has many of the flavors of the traditional dish but the ...
Chicken Lo Mein
Strictly speaking, that is chicken lo mein in the photo. Not chow mein but lo mein. Although both lo mein and chow mein refer to noodle dishes with stir ...
Alex’s dandan noodles with whole shrimps
Yesterday was a total foodie day at home. We had Vietnamese pork bone and green papaya soup (canh du du) for lunch and, because the soup served with a ...
Chicken Pad Thai Noodles
Shrimp may be the most common protein component of this beloved Thai street food but chicken pad Thai is just as tasty. It's all in the sauce. The sauce ...
Chicken Mee Goreng
There are many variations of mee goreng. The meat and vegetables vary. The meat may be chicken, pork, beef or even goat; shrimps are often added as well. ...
How to eat ramen: slurp it!
Western table manners frown at slurping food but, in Asia, that's how to eat a bowl of piping hot noodle soup — including ramen. Just watch this ...
The best beef ho fun ever
I'm not really sure about the spelling of the dish. Hofan? Hofun? Ho fun? The dish itself is beef chow fun but most Chinese restaurants simply list it in ...
Stir fried noodles with brandied pork and vegetables
What's with the brandied pork? I discovered I was out of rice wine but I had promised Alex a stir fried noodle dish and I intended to deliver with panache. ...
Pork lo mein, a light version
There was a time when I would refuse to cook a dish if I didn't have all the ingredients specified in a recipe. All newbie cooks go through that phase, I ...
Pork mami (noodle soup)
For lunch today, we had pork mami. The pork wasn't plain boiled; it was braised. To be more precise, when I made soya pork yesterday, after cooking, I ...