Yunnan-style Beef Soup (牛扒烀)

Today we are making a Yunnan-style beef soup. It is very easy to make and it is like one of the best soups you should try. Yunnan is a special province, it…

Hunan Style Soy Roasted Duck (湖南酱板鸭)

Today we are making Soy Roasted Duck(Jiang Ban Ya 酱板鸭). It is a complicated recipe that includes 4 different cooking methods, salting, roasting, braising, and dehydration. I have no idea how to…

Chinese Master Brine Recipe (卤水)

Chinese Master Brine (Lushui 卤水) is a savory and aromatic brine that is infused with abundant Chinese spices and aromatics, seasoned with soy sauce, salt, sugar, rice wine, and other seasonings. It…

Fuzhou Meatball Soup (福鼎肉片汤)

Today we are making a special meatball soup – 福鼎肉片汤. Although we call it meatball but is actually more like meatball slices. The taste, the shape, the texture is different than any…

Sichuan Crispy Pork Recipe (小酥肉)

Today we are making 小酥肉, translated as little crunchy bites of pork. What’s special about it is that it comes with an aromatic dipping spicy powder, which is like a bomb of…

Cumin Roasted Lamb Rib Recipe (孜然烤羊)

I made this dish for my Chinese new year’s eve dinner (团圆饭). Lamb is called yang (羊) in Chinese so I named this dish 喜气洋洋. May your happiness burst everywhere. I kept…

Steamed Cabbage Roll Recipe

Steamed Cabbage Rolls This dish can be made with other vegetables such as carrot slices and eggplant slices. Daikon cabbage is called baicai (白菜) in Chinese, which sounds similar to hundred fortune(百财).…