Chinese Recipe: Home-style Tofu pictures (1 of 8)
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If you love tofu, I am sure you have your favorite tofu dish–be it Mapo Tofu, claypot tofu, steamed tofu, or fried tofu. While many people think that tofu is tasteless and plain, I love tofu very much. Tofu can be very versatile and delicious, if you know how to pair it with other ingredients. Case-in-point: the home-style tofu dish shown above (just click “Next” or “Back” to view the complete photo set.)
Home-style tofu is a homey dish, an everyday and humble dish. In Chinese, it’s called 家常豆腐. Every family has their own interpretation or recipe of home-style tofu. My home-style tofu is really simple: a block of tofu, some mushrooms (I used canned button mushrooms), ground pork, and shrimp. The sauce is the popular Chinese brown sauce that consists of oyster sauce and soy sauce. It sure doesn’t look as beautiful and tempting as Mapo Tofu, it’s quite tasty nonetheless, and great with steamed white rice…
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Yong Tow Foo pictures (1 of 4)
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I have written about Yong Tow Foo a couple of times here and here but here is the real stuff.
Foong Foong’s Yong Tow Foo (Yong Tau Fu) is one of the best in Kuala Lumpur (KL), and I hope my pictures do justice to its fame. This is one of the items that I never miss out whenever I am in KL (Kuala Lumpur). The restaurant is a little hard to find, but once you find it, you will never want to forget it…
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Spinach and Tofu Salad pictures (1 of 5)
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My cheekbones have gone missing.
I have been looking for them in the mirror–during day time under natural sun light; indoor under soft tungsten light; in the office with bright fluorescent light–but they are nowhere to be found. They have indeed gone missing.
What I see in the mirror–and most evidently from my travel pictures–are fats, or fat cells, as my gym instructor on Norwegian Cruise Line would refer to. These fat cells have overtaken my face and swallowed up my cheekbones. They have claimed their green card and permanent residency on my ever bulging and protruding stomach and waistline. That’s not all; they have also crawled into the contour of my face, staked their claims on my thighs, my arms, my butt, even my toes! They are pervasively and invasively everywhere…
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Braised Tofu in Claypot pictures (1 of 3)
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This time of year when the days are short and the nights are cold, I turn to claypot cooking for warmth and comfort. Be it claypot bak kut teh, claypot chicken rice, stews, or soups, claypot somehow adds that earthy aroma to the dish I cook and make the food a lot more appealing just because it’s cooked and served in a claypot. This claypot full of braised bean curd/firm tofu (in the US, bean curd is marketed as firm tofu at the grocery stores) with mushrooms is no exception. In a way, claypot cooking is like a fireplace; it gives you that warm cozy feeling…
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Recently, my colleague asked me for Mapo Tofu/麻婆豆腐 recipe. He has just gotten into cooking and wished to try making Mapo Tofu at home. I was psyched by the idea of teaching a novice home cook with my secret Mapo Tofu recipe; great recipes are meant to be shared.
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Rasa Malaysia 30-minute meal is back and this time with a homey recipe that would remind everyone of your mom’s cooking.
A painless, hassle-free dish that is surprisingly (and extraordinarily) satisfactory.
Just look at the soft and smooth as silk tofu with the generous toppings of ground pork, dried shrimps, and fresh scallions…need I say more?
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