Coconut Bread (Chinese Bakery Bread)

My aunt taught me this recipe for coconut bread. It’s a Chinese bakery bread dough recipe that results in fluffy and slightly sweet bread. Perfect as a base for sweet and savory fillings. I learned a lot while reformatting this verbal recipe into text and testing substitutions–a fun chemistry experience! The ratio for coconut filling […]

Sesame sauce with Blanched Broccoli

Another tasty, simple side dish. I’d imagine that this sauce goes well with most vegetables…I’d just pay attention to how to cook those vegetables first…blanching vs a quick sautee, etc. Reference: ConnectedWomen

Cucumber Kamchi

Lol. I call it kamchi because I don’t have gochugaru (Korean red pepper flakes). I substitute with paprika and cayenne pepper instead–not the same but still delicious. My cousin calls it scam-chi hahaha Reference: MyHealthyDish (my reference & while searching for links, found out she made a paprika version!)

Soy Sauce Eggs

These are like the perfect ramen eggs, or what I always want lo shui dan to be. Great side dish to have handy with rice and cucumber kimchi. References: Momofuku x Food 52; Pete & Gerrys

Seeing Color

Before I created this wordpress, I had a tumblr. It’s nice to look back on posts from 6+ years ago. I often think about this post that I created in Hong Kong about seeing color and wanted to repost. So one night after dinner, Aunt G and I decided to walk along the waterfront. I […]