The final week for my last semester! I decide to make Huoguo (Hot Pot) with my friend to celebrate the last week class. I love Huoguo because it is very easy to make and I can eat various vegetables, meat, and seafood at the same time. These were what we prepared for hot pot: Sliced Potatoes Enoki Mushrooms Napa Cabbage Bok Choy Shii-take (Mushroom) Beef Slices Various Meat and Seafood Balls Noodle As you can see the typical Hot Pot has two different soup bases, one is spicy and one is not spicy. Actually you can find various hot pot soup base paste at any Chinese Mart that will make it easier for you to make Hot Pot at home. Once you chose your soup bases and had all vegetables and meat ready, you can get your pot. If you don't like spicy or light flavor, just want one flavor, you can use normal pot. If you want to have two flavors one time you can find the pot I used here. Get you pot ready, add enough water and put soup base paste and mix well with water. Wait till the soup base boiled, you can start add whatever you like into the soup to cook and enjoy your hot pot party! I like to make additional sauce to eat with, usually chili, vinegar, sesame oil, garlic and soy sauce. Once we finished most of the food, we will add noodles into the not spicy side, also some vegetables and meat to make a bowl of delicious noodle as main dish. Of course, you can choose whatever you want to eat. Hot Pot does not have recipe, you can freely add what you like. If you are going to make Hot Pot at home, what foods you will choose to eat?
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Candy & Beverage & Snacks You must see some of these snacks in my Instagram and Facebook. Since it is very close to the end of my last semester of Undergraduate study, I want to do the snacks giveaway to thank you all supporting my blog. The winner will get the HUGE snack pack. Candy bag! This candy bag contains Fruit Gummy candy, Fruit Milk candy, Coconut Candy, and my favorite WhiteRabbit Creamy Candy. Hot Kids Milk Drink! Sweet milk made with condensed milk. Yam & Mixed Cereal! Very healthy and yummy cereal with mixed natural crops. Good choice for breakfast and dinner when you are dieting! Red date with Walnut! I didn't know many of you never heard about red date, a kind of sweet and healthy fruit, which also been used in many cuisines. Here you will have the red date with walnuts and dried grapes. Want to try how it tastes? Tea Egg! Tea egg, boiled in spiced sauce, is a very common street food and home-cooking cuisine in China. How to win?
I have shared many delicious Asian cuisine, and last week I cooked my first foreign dish. Does any one I mentioned in my blog inspire your Asian food interest? Did you ever cook or try any foreign food? Leave your comment to share your experience with me and other readers. I will choose the winner on April 19th at 6pm. Sorry it is open only for STU, but feel free to leave your thoughts and questions. The lucky one will get all the snacks I mentioned above. Thank you! Look forward to hearing from you! If you read my home page, you must know I also love Korean food because many Korean dishes are spicy and I love spicy food. I watched a lot of TV shows about Korean food and I want to go to Korea with my best friend one day to eat all of the delicious food I have seen on TV. Actually, I found and went to a great Korean restaurant here in Miami. The chief is Korean and they have many delicious real Korean dishes. I cannot wait to go to Korea to try local restaurants and street food. Similar to China, Korea also has various yummy street food. Today I am going to share my first cooking experience of foreign food, Tteok-bokki, the stir-fried rice cakes. In China we also eat rice cake, but Korean rice cake has special recipe with Korean red pepper paste. Let's see what we need for Tteok-bokki: Main Ingredients: 1 bag of rice cake 2 or 3 pieces of fish cake 2 handful cabbage(forgot put in the picture) Scallion Korean Red Pepper Paste Crispy Seaweed White Sesame Sugar Steps: 1. Cut fish cake into triangles, shred cabbage, and cut scallion into strips as the similar size as rice cake. 2. If you have rice cake refrigerated, cook it for 5 minutes. And then soak in cold water and put aside. 3. Add water (enough to cover rice cake in the pot), and 3 tps red pepper paste, wait till boiled. 4. Add rice cake and boil till the rice cakes get soft and the sauce get thick (during this step, keep stirring to avoid the rice cakes sticking on the bottom of the pan), then turn the fire to medium and add fish cake (stir for 2 minutes), then add cabbage (keep stirring for 1 minute). Lastly, put scallion and mix well. 5. Scoop out rice cakes in a plate and Enjoy it! (I love to sprinkle some seaweed and sesame on the top) Hope I can go to Korea for my first food tour very soon. I want to try the strange sausage Sundae, and I must go to the Gwangjang Market first to try the local street food that I saw on TV, such as fish shaped pastry, and the mini Gimbap, of course I must try the local Kimchi dishes, for example the pancake made with Kimchi.
What is you favorite foreign cuisine? Where is your dream place to have food tour? Did you ever try to cook one foreign dish? In China, April 4, 2017 is the day of Qingming Festival. The date of Qingming, dpending on the 15th day from the Spring Equinox, changes every year between April 4th to 6th. On that day people will go to sweep tombs to commemorate ancestors as the most important activity to show respect to our ancestors. Also, people will have 3-day holiday to go out for spring outing to celebrate the coming of spring, green and blossom. During Qingming, willow starts turning green, for a good meaning, people will put willow branches on gates for protection against evil, as well as for welcoming the spring and green. When people going out for spring outing, they will make a willow crown and put on head. To celebrate Qingming, different places in China has their own special food to celebrate. I am going to introduce several common food in China. One calls Qing Tuan, meaning green glutinous rice ball. Mixed glutinous rice and juice from green mugwort or barley grass makes it green, symbolizes the green of spring, and normally with red bean paste as fillings. There are many other food that people eat around Qingming time. For example, snails are getting fattest around Qingming, thus it is the best time to eat snails, which been called Qingming snails. Snails can be stir-fried with shell, and flavored with garlic, ginger, soy sauce, cooking wine, and chili, then eat with toothpick to pick out the meat. Also the flesh can be picked out first and cooked with other ingredients, for example, in my hometown, snail meat stir-fried with Chinese chives is the most common combination. Sanzi is made of wheat flour dough as noddles and deep fried, making it very crispy. Nowadays, it is not only eaten during Qingming, gradually it is eaten as snack in many places in China. Around Qingming, in many warm places the peach starts blossoming. In my hometown, the peach blossoms every year, and my family will go to botanic garden to visit the beautiful peach blossom. As a good ingredient to cooking, people will use peach blossom for congee. This custom can be traced back to Tang Dynasty. Thank you for reading about the new culture about Chinese Qingming Festival. Even though I am at Miami now where always is green, I still want you enjoy the coming of spring and try more Chinese food!
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