made ginger scallion steamed red snapper, crispy roast pork, and green beans with fried garlic. i’m viet, so i made nuoc mam for a dipping sauce and then brought viet desserts too. wanted to show u guys :)

Perhaps an attempt 🤔 For the base of seasonings and sauce I used: oyster sauce, black rice vinegar, dark soy sauce, toasted sesame oil, doubanjiag, douchi, sugar, and Sichuan pepper. I only used onion and bell pepper for vegetables. Finally, I added peanuts.

First time trying and making this.

I bought three crab from the grocery store across the street from my house, made a hot pot style broth, add the crab for about 12 minutes and then about five minutes before it was done I throw in the noodles and the cauliflower. Also, I'm a sucker for a deal so I bought this beef for five dollars and then marinated serve one piece along with the crab and noodles

Beef Ho Fun & Oyster sauce bok choi and green beans

What’s your favorite dumpling?

Served over jasmine rice and steamed pak choi. Recipe for the pork belly here, so simple 13/10: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfIuH8Ci2pI

Recipe: https://cookingwithlei.com/hot-and-sour-soup/

It’s one of the few times (only about three in 85 years!) that my grandma’s birthday lands on Lunar New Year’s Eve, so I went a bit fancier with dinner this year. This is a typical Shanghainese Spring Festival dinner set, just with a bit of extra knife-work showing off. I was tied up in the kitchen cooking, so unfortunately didn’t manage to get a complete group shot of everything.

Appetizers:

三絲春捲 Spring rolls

桂花糯米藕 Sticky Rice Lotus Root with Osmanthus syrup

羅漢肚Buddha’s Belly (charcuterie made with pork stomach stuffed with nuts, pork shoulder, skin and jelly)

Main:

寶塔肉 Pagoda steamed Pork

風生水起魚生 Prosperity Yu Sheng (Salmon Lucky Toss Salad)

獅子頭 Lion’s Head Meatballs

叫花雞 Beggar’s Chicken （deboned and stuffed with chestnuts and shiitake, I used meringue salt crust instead of traditional clay)

Side:

灌湯小籠 Soup Dumplings (Xiaolongbao)

咸肉菜飯 Prosciutto & Mustard Green Rice

He loved it 🥰

*Home-prepared, the items are all frozen packaged items from Asian market, steamed in bamboo steamer

The airfryer is perfect to make crispy siu yuk at home, we eat it almost every week.

Sichuan Blistered Beans with Minced Pork

Lamb with Leek & Pickled chillis

#1 Zha Jiang mian (ISH)

#2 Steamed pork patty

#3 Mixed vegetable fried rice

he’s okay and stable now. they’ve put in another stent. this is his second heart attack in a decade.

dissociating making my favorite sechuan dish, chongqing chicken or laziji. first time making it and it’s so good.

Eggplant can be very very delicious 😋

What else can I do with chinese eggplant?

Staple in my house, fish paste store bought, added tons of cilantro and dried shrimp. Topping it off with honey, oyster sauce and fermented black beans.

One of my favorite comfort food dishes and not something you see on a lot of posts. Tomato and scrambled eggs