Tonkatsu & Japanese Cucumber Salad

  Hi friends! It’s panning out to be a busy week, lots of fun projects, meetings/phone calls are lined up. After a sluggish month, I definitely welcome back the fast paced schedule! Taking a breather and just finished eating the leftover Tonkatsu and cucumber salad from last night’s dinner, you know they are great recipes [...]

Roll Your Own Spring Rolls

  Hello friends! How are you doing on this fine Monday? I have been taking it easy the last few weeks, work is normally slow around tax time, so I took advantage of this and did a few small home projects. The front door has been re-stained, I added some decorations to brighten things up [...]

Fried Lotus Root with Pork

Hi everyone! It’s been quite a week and it’s only Wednesday! My husband’s twin cousins from France came to Houston to visit 2 weeks ago, this is their last week here so they’ve decided to stay with us for a couple of nights. We were very excited to host the young ladies, my little girl [...]

Stir Fry Gai Lan

Another vegetable dish you asked? Yes! I have always been the type of daughter who listens to her Mama, especially when it comes to easy and sound advice. It’s only been a few days but just by eating less rice and more vegetable, I already feel better. Maybe it’s all in my head, but my [...]

Easy Sweet and Sour Napa Cabbage

So it’s Summer time, which means it’s swimsuit season. I hadn’t been feeling self-conscious about being in one since I haven’t had to get in one for so long, when I did put on a tankini recently, the reality sets in “OMG I am not as fit as I think I am!”  Thinking about how [...]

Agedashi Tofu

Hi everyone, hope you are having a great week so far! For those of us in the US, this has been a short week due to Independence Day, since I’ve been trying hard to catch up on work after our long San Francisco trip, the long weekend was a welcoming relief. I got to hang [...]

Chinese Broccoli Pork Rolls

My dear readers, apologies for not posting for one whole month, thank you all for tirelessly visiting the blog even when I’ve been away, I really appreciate it! Other than being busy with work, my family and I actually went on a 10 day vacation to North California, we saw many beautiful sights and ate [...]

Asian Style Cream Corn Soup

Did everyone have a great weekend? We did quite a bit of Spring cleaning, and I’ve decided instead of hiring the cleaning crew once a month, I will clean a part of the house each day, and just have the professionals work their magic on a quarterly basis.  This way we should save some money [...]

Stuffed Fried Tofu

I remember eating pork stuffed tofu back at Taiwan, my Mama would braise them in soy sauce, though tasty, they were always a bit on the salty side. I bought some large fried tofu and decided they would work well as an ingredient for this recipe, the bean sprouts made things much lighter, which meant [...]

Fried Gluten (烤麩)

Every other Sunday I take my little girl to visit my parents and hang out with her cousins. Now the kids are a little older, instead of having to watch over them to make sure no one gets in trouble, the adults actually have some time to catch up and relax. My Mama is a [...]