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Cantonese

A Cantonese Breakfast: Fried Daikon Cakes + Eggs (Lo Bak Guo)

by Jennie Tai March 8, 2013

Daikon cakes (lo bak guo) are a Cantonese dim sum staple. They’re also known as “turnip cakes”, but daikon is a little more accurate, because it’s made of shredded daikon, rice flour, chopped mushrooms, dried shrimp and bits of sweet Chinese sausage (lap cheong), steamed in a pan, then either eaten warm by the spoonful, [...]

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Recipe Box: 8 Step Turkey Lettuce Wraps

by Jennie Tai March 6, 2013

My mom and I have been on a health kick lately, so we’ve been making things like this at home for dinner and then eat ice cream cake for dessert. It’s funny taking photos of my mom while she’s cooking, because she loves setting things up a certain way (the ingredients below each have a [...]

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Recipe Box: Honey Walnut Shrimp & Candied Walnuts

by Jennie Tai February 10, 2012

Alright – enough about Valentine’s Day and Chocolate. I promise I’ll stop talking about it til next week! For now – I want to share one of my favorite traditional Chinese recipes with you. Pin It

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Recipe Box: Beef Chow Foon

by Jennie Tai June 28, 2011

When you’re little, you’ll often take for granted the comforts of good home cooking without realizing it. Especially when you had a culturally different upbringing, like I had, and were weaned off of things like chicken fried rice, shrimp dumplings, or beef chow foon. And as a kid, it’s not really your fault that you’re [...]

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Cantonese

A Cantonese Breakfast: Fried Daikon Cakes + Eggs (Lo Bak Guo)

Recipe Box: 8 Step Turkey Lettuce Wraps

Recipe Box: Honey Walnut Shrimp & Candied Walnuts

Recipe Box: Beef Chow Foon

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