Recipes & Cooking : Bean Sprouts

Egg Foo Young

Egg Foo Young

I have a story to tell you about my first encounter with egg foo young, the quintessential Chinese-American dish. A long time ago, when I first set my foot on the US soil for higher education, I went straight to the middle America. After 36 hours of tiresome journey from my hometown of Penang, Malaysia, I arrived in the state…

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Bean Sprout Beef Rice Bowl

Bean Sprout Beef Rice Bowl

I am done with my confinement but am a little overwhelmed at the moment. Please enjoy this guest post by Beyond Kimchee, a fabulous Korean food blog that I recently discovered. Authored by Hyegyoung (aka Holly), a native of South Korea, Beyond Kimchee is a chronicle of Holly’s recipes and the food she prepares for her two kids and husband….

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Bean Sprouts with Tofu Puff

Bean Sprouts with Tofu Puff

Happy New Year! I hope everyone has had a fun and festive celebration and I wish you all a great 2010. Following my Teochew porridge post on preserved turnip eggs (菜圃蛋), I would like to share with you yet another simple dish that goes well with porridge—bean sprouts with tofu puff. My father loved bean sprouts with bean curd (tofu)…

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Bean Sprouts with Salted Fish Recipe

Bean Sprouts with Salted Fish Recipe

Certain dishes include 3 parts nostalgia in the recipe. This is one of those meals; it brings back lots of childhood memories to me–um, all of them bitter and resentful. I did not appreciate this dish as a child – not because it didn’t taste good or because the stinky smell of salted fish was overpowering–but because I was one…

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