When I teach cooking classes, one of the questions students ask most frequently is what is my favorite dish to cook again and again. Talk about hard questions! I’m constantly testing so many new recipes for this blog and other projects that I don’t get to go back to old favorites as often as I [...]
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Shrimp with Spicy Garlic Sauce
Happy Friday! Many of you seem to have tried and loved this shrimp with spicy garlic sauce recipe that I first posted in September 2010. As a nod to this recipe becoming one of Appetite for China’s most popular ones on Pinterest, here is an updated photo and recipe. This easy recipe takes about 5 [...]
Shrimp and Chive Dumplings
Happy Chinese New Year! Over the weekend, I celebrated by guest chef-ing at Ted and Amy Supper Club in Brooklyn. We served a four-course meal for 14 people: shrimp and chive dumplings, watercress and mushroom noodle soup, red-cooked chicken with chestnuts, and for dessert, homemade black sesame ice cream with almond cookie crumble. Even I [...]
Shrimp Lo Mein
Greetings from Atlanta! I’m down south for BlogHer Food 2011 and getting ready for two days of panels, talks, and events with plenty of other food bloggers from around the country. I got in a few hours ago, wandered around downtown enjoying the sun, and even managed to find and scarf down some Cajun-Chinese food [...]
Dragon Well Shrimp – Longjing Xiaren
Since my trip to Hangzhou’s Dragon Well tea fields, I have made use of the famous leaves less often than I should have. See, I went on a tea-buying binge after coming back to Beijing. In my cabinet right now there is an ample supply of not only Dragon Well (longjing), but also sheng and [...]
Curry Laksa, and Cooking without Water
Yesterday I cooked without water. Well, not completely without water, but with trickles from the faucet. When the trickles eventually stopped, I used purified stuff from the water cooler in our living room. To rinse food, boil noodles, wash dishes, everything. Trickles. See, Jacob and I live in a brand new apartment, so new that [...]
Coconut Milk Shrimp, and My Hard Drive Heartache
Before I get to this delicious coconut milk shrimp dish, I want to share my misery. I’m one of those people who is terrible about backing up files. Two days ago, my hard drive crashed. After a lengthy recover process, my important documents and music were thankfully saved. However, about 80% of the photos I [...]
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