How to Make Grapefruit Juice You can’t have grapefruit green tea without the (surprise!) grapefruit. If you’re making a glass for yourself as a quick afternoon break, I’d recommend squeezing by hand. If you’re prepping a big batch for you and all your friends and family (hi, can we be friends?), then an electric juicer […]
Chinese Rice Cakes – Chao Nian Gao
Chinese Rice Cake Recipe These stirfried Chinese rice cakes, or what I call chao nian gao, are cozy and comforting. The rice cakes are dense and chewy, the cabbage a little crunchy, the mushrooms meaty and the fish cakes bouncy. This dish is typically made with beef or pork, but fish cakes make assembly easier […]
Mango Pomelo Sago Recipe
This mango pomelo sago is a fairly easy Chinese dessert to make, unlike some of the astounding pandemic bakes I’ve been seeing (Kinako chiffon roll cakes filled with red bean, whipped cream and mochi??? Strawberry genmaicha cream puffs?? Feed me please). You boil some chewy, bouncy sago and stir them into a mango coconut smoothie, […]
Honey Toast Recipe
What is honey toast? I first had honey toast (also know as brick toast, given the shape, or Shibuya toast, since it originated from Shibuya, Japan) at Shokudo in Hawaii. I wasn’t convinced at first- the name is unassuming, and I could squirt honey out of a plastic bear on a piece of toast at […]
Milk Tea Ice Cream with Brown Sugar Boba
milk tea ice cream recipe i love making tea flavored desserts (ahem, this green tea pie even though pies take forever) and eating tea flavored ice cream (hello, earl grey from tin pot and jasmine from polly ann), so it was only a matter of time before i made milk tea ice cream at home. […]
Gochujang Sauce (and a Tofu Rice Bowl)
how to make gochujang sauce most of the work that goes into making this gochujang sauce is already done by the time you buy some gochujang, or fermented korean red chili paste. which i realize is more stressful/hard/annoying/etc than it used to be; but it does keep for a long time in the fridge (shout […]