Side Dishes

What a Perfect Easy Fried Chicken recipe! To get the juiciest and crunchiest boneless Chicken thighs on the planet takes a good marinade, a double dip in seasoned flour, and a frying that produces the deepest golden-brown color possible! You can go for a lighter [read more…]

This Garlic Butter Spaghetti with Red Chili Oil is an elegant fusion of texture and flavors. The chewy-yet-tender (al-dente) texture and the spicy-garlic-butter flavors create a sensational combo that everyone can enjoy! If you have followed my recipes, you know that I am a big [read more…]

This Sweet, Spicy, and Crispy Korean Tofu is one of my favorite Tofu recipes. The sweet and spicy flavors are addicting and beyond satisfying. I love my Tofu to be lightly crispy outside and still taste soft inside – the perfect texture. Once started, you [read more…]

Dumplings are a Chinese specialty and while there are hundreds of different combinations, Shrimp Dumplings are my favorite. During Chinese holidays and festivals, we like to make dumplings at home instead of buying the pre-made ones from the grocery store. Home-made dumplings are definitely the [read more…]

My version of Japanese Milk Bread Dinner Rolls are perfectly easy to make and never fails to come out of the oven with the highest honors! Japanese Milk Bread (Shokupan) is known for its soft and pillowy texture with a light delicious taste and beautiful [read more…]

These Salt and Pepper Chicken Wings are finger-licking delicious! Like the best potato chips, once you start eating you will want another and another! Salt and Pepper are essential seasonings and the combo in recipes appeal to almost all humans everywhere! Yes, we try to [read more…]

This 3-Pasta/3-Cheese Southern Macaroni and Cheese recipe makes one of the best side dishes you will ever taste! The recipe was inspired by a Gold Medal winner at the Coastal Empire Fair competition in Savannah, Georgia, forty years ago. My boyfriend’s mother used to make [read more…]

Dim Sum Shumai is one of my favorite Cantonese cuisines! Similar to Thanksgiving gatherings in the US, the Chinese Spring Festival celebrates family. This is a “must” reunion for all daughters and sons to return to mother and father and grandparents’ homes—if at all possible. [read more…]

This Korean Style Shrimp and Rice Corn Dog can become your new favorite! Korean Corn Dogs rule as the most popular street food in South Korea. They are now conquering streets in both Eastern and Western hemispheres. Okay, that’s probably too strong a claim! But [read more…]

Don’t you just love Thai food! It always delivers enjoyable pleasures to taste buds everywhere.  And this Hot and Sour Thai Shrimp Soup is simply the best of the best of Thai cuisine! It will remind you of Tom Yum Goong Soup; but it is [read more…]

Have you ever wondered about Chinese desserts? They are less sweet and more blended and balanced than many western desserts. I especially like the artistic nature and chewable texture of the treasure-laden golden sesame seed finger balls. Red Bean Paste Sesame Balls are popular as [read more…]

To celebrate the 2020 Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival and the Chinese National Day, I created this Festive Chinese Chicken Dumplings as the symbol of family gatherings and love. In China, dumplings are big family meals. We gather to prepare the food, making the dumplings and fillings. [read more…]

Honey-Buttered Korean Fried Chicken — this Korean specialty has become a global culinary favorite. The Honey Butter flavor caresses your taste buds and insists that one piece is not enough! Korean Fried Chicken is a popular choice as an appetizer, a main dish, or as [read more…]

This beautiful marbleized Deluxe Danish Nut Bread is so easy to make that it might seem “thrown together in five minutes!” That’s not quite right, although it is mixed together in less than five minutes, fully baked in an hour, and is ready to enjoy [read more…]

Savory homemade Five-Star Sesame Garlic Bread is a good companion for soups, salads, and entreés everywhere. The star and flower pattern connotes the heaven and the earth, with sesame seeds illustrating the wider galaxy beyond the bigger stars. There is also a sunflower appearance. This [read more…]

These Kaleidoscopic Chinese Tea Eggs (茶叶蛋) are key parts of a food culture that is at least as old as the Tang Dynasty (1500 years ago). Just peeling them open reveals ancient patterns that resonate in the psychedelic “Tie-Dyed” Hippy dresses of the 1960s and [read more…]

These #1Easy Vietnamese Shrimp Spring Rolls are delightful to behold and amazing to eat. When matched with a cool dip of Peanut Butter Sauce, well, they are simply delicious! In Vietnam, spring rolls are similar to what sandwiches are in the West—popular as stand-alone lunches [read more…]

The Fried Chicken delight is one of the most popular and traditional Korean specialties worldwide. The chicken is so crunchy and juicy and has an amazing combination of spices and sweetness. There is a stickiness that marries everything into an addictive whole. I have added [read more…]