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Monthly Archives: March 2015
Cantonese clay pot rice
Rice cooked in earthenware pots is a specialty in various places throughout China, but the dish is particularly well known in Hong Kong and broader Guangdong, by the name baozai fan 煲仔飯 (also written 堡仔飯, and pronounced bozei faan in … Continue reading
Posted in - Featured Markets, - Recipes, Chinese food
Tagged baozai fan, Cantonese, 煲仔飯, 砂鍋, 粤菜, 锅巴, Guangdong, guoba, Hong Kong, shaguo, 堡仔飯, 广东
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Uyghur meat pies cooked under the broiler
This weekend I made an exciting discovery. I found that I can use my gas oven’s broiler to replicate tonur-style Uyghur meat pies (a.k.a. samsa سامسا). Uyghur samsa are delicious. The filling is simply fatty mutton, finely-chopped onions, salt, cumin, … Continue reading
Posted in - Featured Food Discoveries, - Recipes, Central Asia/Uyghur food
Tagged baking, broiler, meat pies, mutton pie, samsa, Uyghur, 撒木撒, ئۇيغۇر, تونۇر, سامسا
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Four unique Asian dried chile peppers
Chile peppers have only been in Asia for several hundred years now, but they have gone a long, long way to become standard and staple ingredients in many of Asia’s great food cultures. Southeast Asia is of course full of … Continue reading
Posted in - Featured Food Discoveries, - Featured Markets, - Recipes, Chinese food, Indian food
Tagged buttermilk, buttermilk cured chiles, chaotian pepper, chili, chilly, curd chile, dahi michi, dried chiles, 辣椒, facing heaven pepper, Kashmir pepper, majjiga mirapakayalu, moor milagi, Sichuan, South Indian, Szechuan, tair mulak, Tamil Nadu, vathals, 四川, 朝天
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Heng Fa Food Market in Chinatown
If you haven’t been to Chinatown in a few weeks, Heng Fa market has opened at a new location. This is the market that had purple signs “King Market” that was previously split across 10th St. just north of this … Continue reading
Posted in - Featured Food Discoveries, Chinese food
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