Lai Kwan Kitchen
It is plum season. I love to make plum sauce as it is much healthier to make you own sauce or jam. Green plums like the Reine-Claude is perfect to use as it is sweet and sour. Plum sauce goes well with steamed pork ribs or braised Duck. For the plum sauce I used sugar […]
Cantonese kitchen is famous for BBQ meats, classics are the char siu, roasted pork belly and roasted goose. Char siu comes with a lot of variations. I used pork shoulder for this recipe. The meat to make cha siu needs to be lean with some fat. Often, char siu looks red and has a shiny […]
A Chinese bakery classic is the pineapple bun aka 菠萝包, boluobao. The secret is that there is no pineapple in the bun. The bun consists of two parts, one is the brioche like bun on top a cookie dough. When heating the bun, the upper layer will crack which would looks like the pineapple skin. Pineapple […]
A simple, but fragrant dish is fried tofu with salted egg sauce 咸蛋豆腐. You can serve it with noodles or rice or eat it as a snack. Ingredients 3 salted chicken egg yolk 1 tofu brick about 200 gr. 1 stalk scallions 1 tsp pepper 1/2 tbsp sugar 1 tsp salt 3 tbsp water 1 […]
One of my favorite summer drink in Hong Kong, is the red bean coconut milk ice drink (红豆冰). This drink can be ordered at a cha can ting 茶餐厅. It is very easy to make. Ingredients 3 tbsp cooked red beans sweetened coconut milk evaporated milk or almond milk crushed ice Most difficult part of the […]
Stir-fried shrimp with salted egg sauce is a smokey, savory and sweet dish. Mostly, salted duck egg is used as it is more creamy than the chicken egg. Unfortunately, duck eggs are hard to find and more expensive. Salted egg yolk is a versatile ingredient. You can use it for savory, sweet dishes, cookies, chips […]
Chinese turnip cake aka 萝卜糕 Luobogao/lobakgo is made with Chinese turnip, rice flour, tapioca flour, cured meat, Chinese sausage, dried Shiitake mushroom and shrimps. It is one of the classic dimsum dishes, but also eaten as snack and breakfast with some rice porridge. The turnip rice cake is savory, sweet and has some heat of […]
Steamed egg with minced pork belly and dried shrimp is a real Cantonese comfort food. Steamed egg is often made for kids served with rice. A childhood memory dish. It is nutritious and easy to make. Every Chinese family has its own version. You can put into the steamed egg mixture all kinds of ingredients. […]
Corn egg drop soup is an easy to make soup. It is light, hearty, sweet and healthy. You can use fresh sweet corn or canned sweet corn. Common is to add crab meat, surimi sticks (imitation crab made from white fish meat)or chicken meat into the soup. Ingredients 2 fresh sweet corns or 1 can […]
Yang Chow fried rice aka Yeung Chow fan/Yang Zhou fan 扬州饭 is an authentic Cantonese fried rice. This dish can be found on almost every Chinese restaurant menu all over the world. Although the fried rice dated around 18th century and originated from the region Yang zhou in the Jiangsu province in China, it is […]