How to Cook Vietnamese Grilled Beef Rolls – Asian BBQ Series
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How to Cook Vietnamese Grilled Beef Rolls – Asian BBQ Series

This is the first in my series of Asian Barbeque Recipes developed for the Ziggy barbeque, just in time for our upcoming Australian summer. Read below on how you can win one of two 2-burner Ziggy sets courtesy of Ziegler and Brown 🙂 Vietnamese-Style Grilled Beef Rolls (Recipe adapted from Luke Nguyen’s INDOCHINE) INGREDIENTS: (A)…

How to Make Sweet Potato Onde-Onde and Black Sesame Paste Dessert
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How to Make Sweet Potato Onde-Onde and Black Sesame Paste Dessert

Fair warning – the audio in this Live Asian Kitchen is badly out of sync. I only realised because I had to force myself to watch the replay so I could remember the ingredient amounts for these recipes (fun fact – I have a general phobia about watching myself on camera).   Sweet Potato Onde-Onde…

How to Make Chilli Sauce for Dim Sums
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How to Make Chilli Sauce for Dim Sums

This post relates to my broadcast that covered 2 dishes – chilli crab, and the chilli sauce typically served at Chinese restaurants for Yum Cha. Chilli Sauce for Dumplings (1 hr 16 mins into video) INGREDIENTS: 2 cups large chillies 5 cloves garlic 1 Tbsp white vinegar 1 Tbsp sugar ½ Tbsp salt Cooled, boiled…

How to Cook Vietnamese Caramelised Fish
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How to Cook Vietnamese Caramelised Fish

Vietnamese Caramelised Fish is traditionally cooked in a claypot, and usually served in conjunction with Sweet and Sour Fish Stew, along with white rice. Both recipes are covered in this Live Asian Kitchen, streamed on Twitch.   Vietnamese Caramelised Fish INGREDIENTS: 500g barramundi fillets Oil for pan-frying 2 Tbsps sugar 3 Tbsps water ½ Tbsp…

How to Cook Vietnamese Sweet & Sour Fish Stew
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How to Cook Vietnamese Sweet & Sour Fish Stew

I had the opportunity to try Vietnamese Sour Fish Stew and Vietnamese Caramelised Fish for the first time recently in Canley Vale, and was so captivated I had to try to recreate these dishes. In this Twitch Live Asian Kitchen I used Barramundi fillets instead of eel or whole fish – mainly to keep it…

How to Cook Fish with Tom Yum Sauce
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How to Cook Fish with Tom Yum Sauce

I always avoided Tom Yum (or Tom Yam) whenever I was back in Malaysia for a visit because in my mind, eating Thai food in Malaysia was akin to ordering pizza in a Chinese restaurant. Apparently my assumption was wrong since Malaysian Tom Yum is quite different from the Thai variety. How, exactly? I wasn’t sure; my Malaysian…

How to Make Seremban Hakka Noodles (Non-Pork Version)
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How to Make Seremban Hakka Noodles (Non-Pork Version)

My aversion to pork means I’ve rarely explored the cuisine of my own Hakka heritage, which seems to be dominated by pork dishes. This is one such example, made famous by a stall in my hometown of Seremban, hence its name – Seremban Hakka Noodles. Since I don’t eat pork, I’ve never actually eaten it….

How to Make Mah Chee aka Chi Pa
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How to Make Mah Chee aka Chi Pa

I knew this Malaysian childhood snack as Mah Chee, though it’s entirely possible I had the name wrong my whole life; such is the lot of an entire generation of fluent but illiterate Chinese speakers who grew up in Malaysia. The cookbook from which this recipe was extracted (Agnes Chang’s Hawkers’ Delights) calls it “Chi…