When it comes to traditional Chinese recipes, I always turn to Use Real Butter as my ultimate online resource. (I learned how to make Chinese dumplings and potstickers from her.) Use Real Butter is a seriously good blog–very down-to-earth, real, and choked full of delicious recipes plus breathtaking landscape photography and some of the cleanest food porn; I become a fan instantly. Today, I am very happy to feature Jen Yu of Use Real Butter as our guest writer. Jen shares her easy egg roll recipe (with sweet egg roll) and step-by-step picture cooking guide. Please give her your warmest welcome and support, and don’t forget to pay her a visit at her wonderful blog.
Egg Roll Recipe
Guest Writer: Jen Yu of Use Real Butter
I can’t tell you what a pleasure and an honor it is for me to be guest blogging on Rasa Malaysia. This is one of my all-time favorite sites for fantastic Asian recipes (and if you know me, I am picky when it comes to authentic Chinese food) and beautiful photography. When Bee asked if I’d be interested in writing a guest post, I practically fell out of my chair. Yes, of course! But what would I blog? To be honest, I come here to reference many of Bee’s recipes. Eventually, we settled on egg rolls…(get Jen’s egg roll recipe and learn how to wrap egg roll after the jump)
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Chinese Recipe: Vegetable (Choy Sum) pictures (1 of 6)
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Vegetables are healthy and great, but they are boring and hard to cook. Unlike protein (such as meat or fish), vegetables don’t have much flavor. In Chinese cooking, the key to cooking vegetable dishes lies in the creative use of side ingredients and sauces to bring out the taste and texture of vegetables.
Chinese love leafy greens: choy sum, kai lan, bok choy, gai choy, etc. In everyday Chinese meal, there is always a vegetable dish to complement other main dishes. In Chinese or Cantonese restaurants, Chinese vegetables are often served two ways: brown sauce (flavored with oyster sauce) or white sauce–a cooking style I am sharing with you today…
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Chinese Recipe: Chicken Buns (Chinese Steamed Buns) pictures (1 of 4)
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Chinese dim sum is my favorite. Other than the regular har gao (steamed shrimp dumplings) and sui mai, I also love steamed buns . (Previously, I made some red bean steamed buns.) I simply love the soft and pillowy texture of chinese steamed buns–known as bao (包)–filled with meat, vegetables, or a combination of both. Sinking my teeth into a steaming hot and soft Chinese steamed bun, slowly chew it to savor the flavors, and then down it with a cup of Chinese tea is a ritual that often reminds me of how great life is…
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The best way to learn about a new cuisine is from those born and raised in that country, and that’s why I have Pepy of Indonesia-Eats as the guest writer for Indonesian food today. Pepy is the first Indonesian food blogger I know and I’ve since learned so much about Indonesian cuisine from her blog at Indonesia-Eats. In this guest post, Pepy explains the different preparations of Gado-gado and shares with us her recipe. Please welcome her to Rasa Malaysia.
Gado-Gado Surabaya
Guest Writer: Indonesia-Eats (The Art and Science of Food)
To begin with, I was surprised that Rasa Malaysia has chosen me to be the guest writer of Indonesian cuisine on her blog. Rasa Malaysia is one of my inspired blogs among the Asian specialty blogs. We share the same passion for Asian food as we came from the same region, Malay Peninsula where Bahasa Indonesia and Bahasa Malaysia are from the same language root. Some of the food terms are the same, few are different.
Gado-gado is one of the well-known dishes from Indonesia. Gado-gado literally means “mix mix” since gado-gado is the plural word of gado, so gado-gado means mixes. In Indonesia, gado-gado is not a salad dish group, it is a one dish meal…(get Gado-gado recipe after the jump)
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(Click the above to view more Cucur Udang (Prawn Fritters) pictures)
A few months ago, I introduced Malay cooking to you via this post. Today, I am very glad to have Mastura of Foodilicious on board as a guest writer, a talented Penang food blogger and photographer who cooks beautiful and sinfully delicious Malay food and [...]
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When it comes to Chinese vegetables, simple is best. There is really no need for a complicated recipe for vegetables. The key to success with Chinese greens is freshness–you want to just barely cook them, and with the most basic ingredients.
That was exactly what I did with these bok [...]
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I have been asked too many times how to make a simple Chinese greens dish ala Chinese restaurant style…so here it is, the secrets, tips, and recipe to make all your vegetables taste and picture perfect, just like top Chinese/Cantonese chefs do.
Chinese greens with oyster sauce is an easy [...]
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After a long hiatus from cooking due to my hectic life and schedules, I am back with a healthy, vitamin C-loaded dish. Everyone needs greens and I thought I would share this very special vegetable with you–chive buds.
I love chive buds; they’ve got taste, texture, fiber, and those delicate [...]
