Hainanese Chicken Rice Recipe by Chef Michael Lau Cooking Chicken Whole chicken 1.8 kg, wash and cleaned Garlic 30 gm Chinese rice wine 15 gm Ginger 10 gm Sesame oil 5 gm Spring onion 5 gm Salt 1gm Chicken stock 5 liters Cooking Rice Chicken…
Category: Chinese Cuisine
Chinese Rice Cake Soup 年糕汤
Recipe from our contributor Cai Li This rice cake soup is delicious, comforting and very easy to make. It is perfect for a quick and hearty mid-week meal. Nian Gao (rice cakes), which means “higher every year”, is a squishy, sticky foodstuff made by pounding cooked rice with a wooden cudgel until smooth and elastic, then…
Cantonese Style Beef Brisket Stew萝卜牛腩煲
Recipe from Spoonful Chinese Cooking Instructor Cai Li This classic Cantonese braised beef stew is served from almost all traditional restaurants around the world. Traditionally, this dish calls for beef brisket which is relatively tough cut but really flavorful when prepared properly. If you have access to Chinese butchery, look for the brisket with a…
Red-braised Dried Bamboo Shoots 笋干烧肉
Recipe from Spoonful Chinese Cooking Instructor Cai Li Bamboo shoots are always a culinary delicacy in Asia, especially in Chinese and Japanese cuisines. Freshly dug bamboo shoots are seasonal and are appreciated by people of that particular region. Yet easily accessible dried bamboo shoots have a meaty quality and are incredibly delicious. It has a chewy-tenderness…
Crispy Roasted Chicken 脆皮鸡
Recipe from Spoonful Chinese Cooking Instructor Cai Li Can not ask a simpler way to roast a Chinese-flavoured chicken. The skin is golden and extremely crunchy while white meat is tender and juicy.
Salted Egg Yolk Cookies
The salted egg yolk taste is something distinctive to South East Asian cuisine. We love almost everything coated in this amazing flavor and it is a very versatile flavor indeed! It pairs well from savoury meat like prawn, chicken, pork, to sweet treats like cookies! The combination of a soft, buttery, melt-in-your-mouth cookie and the…
Pineapple Tarts Recipe 黄梨挞
Recipe from Spoonful Chinese Cooking Instructor Cai Li With the Chinese New Year around the corner, you can find pineapple tarts just about everywhere in Singapore or Malaysia. Every bakery that churns them out is claiming that its tarts are the best. But I found out today these melt-in-mouth homemade tarts with buttery crumbly pastry…
Chinese Clay Pot Rice
Recipe by Spoonful Chinese Cooking Instructor Cai Li This is a traditional Cantonese dish but now becoming popular throughout China. The rice is slowly cooked in a clay pot, giving the dish a distinctive flavor. It is typically served with Cantonese-style cured pork and vegetables.
Red Date Jelly Recipe
Recipe from Gold Kili Traditionally found in Chinese restaurants, red date jelly is a refreshing dessert choice for the health-conscious. With longan and goji berry arranged in a pretty flower pattern and duo coloured jelly, our simple recipe looks fancier than it is to make. Dish it out the next time you have potluck or…
Homemade Chinese Rice Wine Recipe
Recipe from Spoonful Chinese Cooking Instructor Cai Li This gentle, sweet-sour, marvelously aromatic homemade liquor is a common flavoring for all kinds of China regional cuisines. You can find the rice wine (sometimes called Chinese Cooking Wine) in the Asian supermarkets, but the homemade version is much more delicious and it is surprisingly easy to…