Side Dishes

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…]

Ciabatta Bread Temptation is crunchy, chewy, and soft all at once. It is as rustic as it is refined. Yes, that is how it is supposed to be—a glorious seduction of texture with a rich flavor that is ultra-satisfying. Make it, taste it, and never [read more…]

This Korean Kimchi and Bacon Fried Rice is inspired by the Korean traditional way of cooking kimchi fried rice. Because I want to implement a “fusion” food concept into my recipes, I added a little bacon and the experiment worked successfully! You will be surprised [read more…]

I just love pasta that is flavorful and decadent. This Parmesan Spaghetti Carbonara is one of my favorite Italian spaghetti recipes because it is so simple and easy to make. It tastes fresh, creamy, and light without being saturated with cream – in fact, there [read more…]