Entries tagged with 'Seriously Asian'
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[Photographs: Chichi Wang] Previously Thai Curries, Part Two: Red and Green » All Seriously Asian recipes » This week concludes our three-part installment of Thai curry pastes. Red, green, and yellow curries are common offerings in restaurants, yet these...
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[Photographs: Chichi Wang>] Previously Thai Curries, Part One: Yellow » All Seriously Asian recipes » I've been knee-deep in curries for the past month. As Erin so aptly asked when I embarked on this project, "So you'll include all...
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[Photographs: Chichi Wang] Taking a hiatus from my usual spoilsport-y self, I caved into the pressure of Halloween and served a menu built around orange foodstuffs. To start, a persimmon and daikon salad. To end, a kabocha cheesecake. The...
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[Photographs: Chichi Wang] The memorable meals in our lives take place in the presence of friends and family. Dishes we cook for those we love leave indelible impressions in our minds, like culinary timestamps. Even so, I eat some...
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"Poured over a bed of noodles, it's just as soothing but far more exciting than your average chicken noodle soup." [Photographs: Chichi Wang] Call it Myanmar; call it Burma. Nomenclature aside, relatively little is known about the cuisine of a...
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"A recipe for dashi can be as simple as water and kelp, but adding bonito makes the dashi more complex and complete." Kelp in a pot. [Photographs: Chichi Wang] In Japanese cuisine, all roads lead back to dashi, the base...
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"When the cleaver enters the crab, its legs will flail wildly—fear not and press onwards." [Photographs: Chichi Wang] The crabs are in full force at Asian markets. Bins of blue claws rest beneath burlap covers, while the water tanks hold...
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"There's a difference between the pleasantly doughy boiled dumpling and the chewier, semi-translucent steamed dumpling." I may be from Shanghai, but I think I make some pretty mean dumplings for a Southern gal. From buns, bread, and noodles, the Northern...
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Principles of Stir-Fry, Part Four Previously Principles of Stir-Fry, Part One » Principles of Stir-Fry, Part Two » Principles of Stir-Fry, Part Three » All Seriously Asian coverage » My mother has a way of transforming vegetal chaos into order....
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Principles of Stir-Fry, Part Three [Flickr: velostricken] Previously Principles of Stir-Fry, Part One » Principles of Stir-Fry, Part Two » All Seriously Asian coverage » A good stir-fry is an exercise in organization and timing. Like all orchestrated events, the...
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