10-minute Kung Pao tofu
Tofu takes the place of chicken in this meatless version of a Chinese favorite. Pair with rice for a complete meal or serve …
Udon and pork with chili peanut sauce
Udon and thin slices of pork are tossed with peanut sauce flavored with chili, garlic, ginger, five-spice powder, soy sauce …
Claypot mushroom curry rice
Saute shallots, garlic, ginger, kaffir lime leaves, curry powder and chili flakes, stir in rice, pour in coconut cream, add …
Family favorites
Crispy tofu skin fingers with spicy honey lemon ginger sauce
Cakes of fresh tofu skin are cut into fingers and fried over low heat until golden and crisp. Make a no-cook sauce for …
Fried tofu with sweet chili sauce
Chunks of deep-fried firm tofu are tossed in sweet chili sauce with bird’s eye chilies, shallots, bell peppers and finely …
Japanese-style spinach and mushroom salad
A side dish of blanched spinach and sliced shiitake mushrooms tossed with ground roasted sesame seeds, dashi, Japanese soy …
Recipes by protein
Pineapple orange duck in white wine sauce
Think duck à l’orange but with the flavors of tropical Asia. And because we’re cooking duck breast fillets here instead of a …
Korean stir fried vegetables and glass noodles (japchae)
Historically a noodleless dish, japchae evolved into a sweet-salty Korean stir fried noodle dish that uses dangmyeon, a thick …
Pork bulgogi rice bowl
Thinly sliced pork is marinated in soy sauce, ginger, shallot, garlic, mirin, sugar and gochujang for 10 minutes then seared …
Recipes by course
Mixed vegetables agebitashi
The default cooking procedure is to season the ingredients before and during cooking. With Japanese agebitashi, unseasoned …
Taiwanese braised pork belly
Strips of marinated pork belly are braised in soy sauce with star anise, cinnamon, shallots, garlic and sugar. The tender …
Pork ribs and vegetable soup (nilagang baboy)
Boiled pork ribs, sweet corn, bok choy, potatoes and squash make a chunky soup that, in the Philippines, is paired with rice …
Not just recipes
Sinigang, the iconic sour soup from the Philippines
Sinigang is a vegetable soup with a salty-sour broth. Meat (usually bone-in pork) or seafood (shrimps or prawns are popular) …
Buying a wok? Make it carbon steel.
If you could have only one cooking pan, what would it be? My answer is a wok because I can stir fry, pan fry, deep fry, …
Guide to stir frying
Perfect stir fried dishes do not happen by magic. You need the right pan, cooking oil with high smoking point, and prepping …