Recipes
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Steamed Buns with Marinated Chicken Thigh
A savory bun with a secret ingredient. This bun filling has chicken thigh that's marinated making a super juicy and surprisingly light seasonal spring bao.
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Black and Red Bell Pepper Steamed Pork Buns
A colorful riff on the flavors of Taiwanese pork pepper buns, this steamed bun is filled with pork that's seasoned with black pepper and red bell pepper paste and paired with napa cabbage and shittake mushrooms.
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Homemade Stir Fried Rice Cakes (Chao Nian Gao 炒年糕)
A simple stir fried rice cake dish perfect for throwing in whatever vegetables and meat you in your fridge into a stir fry paired with homemade rice cakes.
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Taiwanese Salt and Pepper Fried Chicken Gua Bao 割包
This dish is a project let me tell you, but it hits all the spots with a soft fluffy bun paired with crunchy, juicy fried chicken that's doused with almond hoisin sauce and paired with bright pickles.
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Simple Sweet and Savory Pickles
A super simple 10 minute pickle with salt, sugar and rice vinegar. A basic family staple that's always in the fridge with cucumbers or really any vegetable that can be pickled.
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Salt & Pepper Taiwanese Fried Chicken
Fried chicken only from gua bao recipe. Crunchy, salty, peppery and delicious. An ode to night markets, this chicken's secret sauce (or batter so to speak) is sweet potato starch.
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Homemade Spring Noodles with Ginger Scallion and Miso
A spring noodle dish made with spinach noodles and coated with a savory sweet miso mirin sauce and topped with scallions, ginger, and garlic.
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Tofu Scallion Dumplings
A vegetarian dumpling filled with seasoned tofu that pays homage to ravioli and ricotta (while still being dairy free) in the form of a dumpling.
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Miso Glazed Pork and Mushroom Skewers
When you have a bunch of leftover dumpling meat and need a creative way to cook it - enter, pork meatball skewers marinated in a miso glaze. Nom.
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Steamed Pork and Roast Carrot Buns (Baozi 包子)
A steamed pork bun with a fluffy dough and a savory filling made with ground pork, roasted carrots, ginger, and scallions - a slight riff on a grandma classic.
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Hearty Vegetable Shumai
Serving you a vegetable shumai filled with seasoned rutabaga, a sweet turnip like root vegetable along with scallions, ginger, and garlic in the tiniest of packages.
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Chicken Broth with Bok Choy and Crispy Rice
This soup is a family staple that we used to always drink with any meal at home, a super simple sipping broth where you simmer chicken, carrots, onions, scallions, ginger, and salt with a pot of water for about two hours low. Nom.
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Sweet Red Pepper and Pork Dumplings
A quarantine dump to brighten up your day with savory peppers in a bright orange dumpling. Thinking of everyone who's been effected by these crazy times and hope everyone is staying safe.
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Origami Dumplings with Roasted Carrot and Pork
A dumpling that's an homage to Taiwanese and Californian cuisine, this dumpling has sweet roasted carrots and juicy pork and features a creative origami fold with two colors, definitely a lot of effort but worth it!
