Recipes & Cooking : Oysters

Fried Oysters with Panko (Kaki Furai/Kaki Fry)

Fried Oysters with Panko (Kaki Furai/Kaki Fry)

Everyone loves panko, or Japanese bread crumb that gives fried foods an airy, light, and super crispy coating, for example: tonkatsu (Japanese fried pork cutlet). I am no exception. In fact, every time I eat out at a Japanese restaurant or izakaya, I would always order a dish of fried appetizer and my favorite is deep-fried oysters or panko-crusted oysters….

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Oyster Recipe: Baked Oysters

Oyster Recipe: Baked Oysters

I love shellfish so it goes without saying that I love oysters. Oysters are plentiful and affordable in the United States. We’re blessed with fresh, live, big, fat, and succulent oysters all year long from the east coast and west coast. I would be sharing more oyster recipes if I don’t have to shuck them. To me, shucking oyster is…

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Grilled Oysters

Grilled Oysters

Big, fat, succulent grilled oysters. Grilled with chopped garlic and chili powder, they are very yummy…(more picture after the jump)

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Eating Sydney: Steamed Oysters and $48/kg Pippies!

Eating Sydney: Steamed Oysters and $48/kg Pippies!

Seafood is exceedingly expensive in Sydney–think $150/kg lobster sashimi (average 5-7 kg per lobster, so do your math), $88/kg mud crab, and $48/kg clams or “pippies.” (Edited: Read the comments area) OUCH! I’m not moving to Sydney anytime soon, regardless how nice and how much closer it is to Malaysia. (Edited: I just came back from the Sydney Fish Market…

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Oysters with Bean Sauce (Taucheo)

Oysters with Bean Sauce (Taucheo)

Plump, juicy, succulent, perfectly cooked, soft, smooth, and absolutely DELICIOUS. Prepared with the simplest of ingredients–fermented bean paste (taucheo), ginger, scallion, red chilies–this dish is a gem…

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