Chicken & Poultry

I adapted this recipe from The Woks of Life and it is simply delicious! Where I digressed was in tenderizing the chicken with baking soda before cooking. If you can't find Chinese broccoli, broccolini is an excellent substitute. Great served with steamed white rice to soak up all that delicious sauce!

Hainanese chicken rice, a very popular dish in Singapore and Malaysia, traces its origins to Hainanese immigrants from Southern China. The simplicity of this dish belies the complexity of its flavors: it's essentially chicken and rice cooked in chicken stock, flavored with aromatics like ginger, scallions and garlic, and served with a chili-garlic-ginger dipping sauce on the side. Traditionally, a whole chicken is poached for this dish, with some of the stock reserved to cook

A ubiquitous fast food sold by street vendors and/or in night markets throughout Taiwan, these fried chicken tenders are soooo amazingly crisp and flavorful! Mom likes to use pork or squid instead of chicken, and I believe there are even some vegetarian versions using mushrooms or potatoes. But the essential ingredients are a marinade of soy, garlic, rice wine, sugar and 5-spice powder for the meat, seafood, or veggies, potato starch for dredging, a salt-pepper seasoning, and

So what the hey is agar-agar? It's a derivative of seaweed and used basically as a vegetarian form of gelatin. In Chinese markets, it's typically sold in 1.5 oz packages and the product looks like long strands of translucent noodles with the consistency of plastic. Sounds delish, eh? Well, actually, it really is when well-seasoned and properly prepared. My grandmother used to make this tasty cold appetizer/salad with agar-agar and chicken. After some experimentation, I came u

This is a delicious home-style Chinese tofu dish which I adapted from a recipe by the amazing foodie family at www.woksoflife.com . Their dish is called Chicken & Soft Tofu Casserole  https://thewoksoflife.com/chicken-soft-tofu-casserole/ . The main changes I made was to double their recipe, use an assortment of fresh mushrooms (including fresh shiitakes, oyster mushrooms and king trumpet mushrooms) rather than dried shiitakes, and add extra oyster sauce and sesame oil. I als