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Congee days and ramen nights

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  • Recipes
    • Appetizers
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    • Soups
    • Main courses
    • Side dishes
    • Sweets
    • Beverages
  • Kitchen
    • Kitchen how-tos
    • Cooking ingredients
    • Kitchen tools
  • Food Tales
    • Edible Garden
    • Dining
  • Newsletter

Kitchen tools

We don't own a lot of specialty tools to avoid kitchen clutter. But the ones we consider essential and non-essential but still highly useful, we make an effort to care for to make them last. Included in this section are tips for buying a wok and how to choose the ideal mortar and pestle.

Frying green beans tempura in carbon steel wok

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, braise, poach, stew and even steam in it. In fact, …

Read more →Buying a wok? Make it carbon steel.
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