A walk through Mr. Lin’s grocery store
The small grocery store where I shop is a typical mom-and-pop Asian grocery. Once inside, you are in another land, but you need no passport or visa to enter this place! [...]
A walk through Mr. Lin’s grocery store
The Chinese store cupboard
Traditionally, a Chinese housewife is supposed to have firewood, rice, oil, salt, soy sauce, vinegar and tea. A Chinese cook in the west has no need for firewood, but there are a few more items they need to add. [...]
Mango pancakes
Oranges, melons and other yellow and orange-coloured fruits are particularly auspicious at Chinese New Year – they represent the moon, a lucky omen. [...]
Steamed salmon with black bean sauce
Fish is at the heart of every Chinese New Year meal as it signifies ‘abundance’ (of riches, health, happiness, etc.) during the following year. Traditionally, the fish is steamed whole. [...]
Spring rolls
If you do nothing else at Chinese New Year, eat a spring roll. These tasty packages resemble ingots of gold and symbolise the coming of Spring, which Chinese New Year ushers in. [...]
Long bean stir-fry (chow dul gock soong)
Mama and all her siblings attended boarding school in China. Returning home for [...]
Stir-fried long beans with red bell peppers (chow dul gock hoong ziu)
For the Cantonese, Chinese long beans are the only vegetable a woman is [...]
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