Recipes

Steamed Pork Ribs with Preserved Mustard Greens (Mei Gan Cai)

Steamed Pork Ribs with Preserved Mustard Greens...

This final chapter of my Life of a Mustard Green series brings together tender steamed pork ribs and homemade dried preserved mustard greens, slowly cooked until deeply savory and comforting....

Steamed Pork Ribs with Preserved Mustard Greens...

This final chapter of my Life of a Mustard Green series brings together tender steamed pork ribs and homemade dried preserved mustard greens, slowly cooked until deeply savory and comforting....

Nian Gao

Nian Gao

This traditional nian gao recipe, passed down in our family for years, uses a no steam method that cooks the rice dough in water before mixing it smooth to create...

Nian Gao

This traditional nian gao recipe, passed down in our family for years, uses a no steam method that cooks the rice dough in water before mixing it smooth to create...

Buddha Jumps Over the Wall

Buddha Jumps Over the Wall

Gently simmered in a pot rather than jar steamed, this home style Buddha Jumps Over the Wall allows flavors to slowly come together, creating a soup that is warm, rounded,...

Buddha Jumps Over the Wall

Gently simmered in a pot rather than jar steamed, this home style Buddha Jumps Over the Wall allows flavors to slowly come together, creating a soup that is warm, rounded,...

Sakura Shrimp Sticky Rice

Sakura Shrimp Sticky Rice

Sakura Shrimp Sticky Rice is a comforting home-style dish with plump glutinous rice, fragrant stir-fried ingredients, and a delicate shrimp aroma. A dish that needs no special occasion, just a...

Sakura Shrimp Sticky Rice

Sakura Shrimp Sticky Rice is a comforting home-style dish with plump glutinous rice, fragrant stir-fried ingredients, and a delicate shrimp aroma. A dish that needs no special occasion, just a...

Lucky Tofu Pouches

Lucky Tofu Pouches

Shaped like small drawstring bags, these tofu pouches hold preserved mustard greens and ground pork, simmered slowly to release deep, comforting aromas. Representing blessing and continuity in Hakka culture, this...

Lucky Tofu Pouches

Shaped like small drawstring bags, these tofu pouches hold preserved mustard greens and ground pork, simmered slowly to release deep, comforting aromas. Representing blessing and continuity in Hakka culture, this...

Gua Bao with Hakka Sour Mustard Greens

Gua Bao with Hakka Sour Mustard Greens

This episode shares a classic gua bao, filled with tender braised pork and sour mustard greens shaped by pickling, sun-drying, and time. Though not the main character, the mustard greens...

Gua Bao with Hakka Sour Mustard Greens

This episode shares a classic gua bao, filled with tender braised pork and sour mustard greens shaped by pickling, sun-drying, and time. Though not the main character, the mustard greens...