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?
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There are many differences between Chinese and American food culture, while it is hard to list all the differences. Let's start from the first meal of the day - Breakfast! Chinese start their busy day early in the morning around 6am for job or school. Thus it is a big problem for them to have time to cook breakfast at home. The way Chinese eat breakfast is distinctive than American. It is easy because Chinese can buy various types of breakfast at street shops, while it is not easy because most of the breakfast dishes are not easy to make. Rice congee is the mainstay diet of Chinese breakfast. It is common and simple to make at home. With enough water that more than you use for cook rice, cook the rice for a long time until the rice get soft and thicker. It is great having warm and mild meal to start a nice day! Of course, you can add other ingredients to make various flavors. It can be sweet or salty with what ever you want, meat, vegetables, or seafoods. In addition to the variety of congee, we also have Tofu Pudding as one of the important diets for Chinese breakfast that you may never heard before. It is a kind tofu that is very soft and tastes like pudding that made from raw beans. While, depend on deferent regions in China, people like different flavor of tofu pudding. Generally, people from the North prefer salty tofu pudding, while people from South prefer sweet tofu pudding, besides, the tofu pudding also can be spicy, especially people from Sichuan love Spicy. Usually, we don't eat congee or tofu pudding alone, we have various side dishes to eat with. One of the traditional and typical snack is deep-fired dough slice. Just like its name, it is deep-fired sticks of dough. And it is great to eat with some soupy dishes, such as congee, tofu pudding, and soymilk. Another type of side dish that I love is steamed buns. It also has different flavors for you to change your choice everyday. Steamed buns are made from wheat flour. After fermentation, the buns have a spongy feel. The basic steamed bun (without any fillings) is called Mantou. It can be white made from wheat flour, brown made with wholemeal flour, or yellow made from corn flour. In addition to steamed buns, another famous Chinese cooking way is pan-frying. For example, the pan-fried buns called "Shengjian" and pan-fried dumplings called "Guotie" have crisp browned bottom, also have more juicy fillings. Shaomai is one of my favorite buns. It has thinner wrapper and different fillings than the buns that I have mentioned above. The most common fillings of shaomai are sticky rice, shiitake mushroom, and minced pork. Sticky rice as the basic ingredient of shaomai, you can replace the pork with other meat or seafoods, or you can make vegetarian shaomai. These are not all the dishes we eat for breakfast, there are many other delicious dishes such as various flavors of noodles, wonton (another type of dumpling), spring roll, egg pancake, and so on. Now, you know how different the Chinese breakfast and American Breakfast. Would you try Chinese breakfast? These video will teach you how to make these at home. Go to my Youtube page find the Chinese Breakfast playlist! Or you can just find a Chinese Restaurant to order these delicious dishes!
Thank you for your reading. See you next week! Happy Lunar New Year! January 28, 2017 is the first day of Lunar Calendar of the rooster year. In China, people start celebrating the most important festival-Spring Festival. Even I cannot celebrate it with my family, but I cannot miss one of the important cuisines during Chinese new year. That is dumpling! In Chinese we call it Jiao Zi "饺子“, which is a homonym for ”交子” meaning the moment of the transferring to new year. Thus, people always eat dumplings to celebrate the coming of new year. In addition, there is another explanation of eating dumplings: the shape of dumpling looks like gold ingots, thus it also symbolizes wealth. Nowadays, dumpling becomes a cuisine not only for festival, but a common daily dishes. Now, let's learn how make delicious dumplings! Depending on your taste, different fillings can be used to make dumplings. Today I am going to introduce you the dumpling with pork and cabbage I made with friends for the celebration of Chinese New Year. Ingredient: 1.5lb minced pork 6 leaves of cabbage,chopped dumpling wrappers minced ginger minced scallion, light soy sauce salt oil First Step: Make fillings: well mix pork, cabbage, ginger, and scallion all together (according to your taste, add appropriate ginger and scallion) Add 3 spoon of soy sauce Add half spoon salt Add half spoon oil Well mix the fillings again Second Step: Dampen the edges of the wrapper with water, scoop appropriate of filling on it. Then, click the following file to download a short video to learn how to wrap! Third Step: Put your beautiful dumplings on a large plate or container, remember to put powder as a base on the plate so that the dumplings will not stick on the plate, also do not put dumplings close to each other, avoiding them sticking on each other. Fourth Step: Put dumplings into boiled water and stir slowly with the back of a ladle. Once the dumplings float on the water, continue to boil about 1 minute using low heat. Then scoop out dumplings. Last Step! Enjoy it! Usually I like to eat it with vinegar, you also can make sauce depend on your taste. Thank you for your reading!
Visit my YouTube, click the playlist of "How to make dumplings", you will find the full video from CiCi Li to follow making dumplings. (The second video from Maggie Zhu will teach you how to make dumpling wrappers). |
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