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Steamed Chicken with Salted Soy Beans

Steamed Chicken with Salted Soy Beans

Steaming chicken or fish with a simple salted soy beans sauce (Indonesian: tauco) is a healthy way to prepare a quick dish for lunch or dinner. Salted soy beans …

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Chongqing (Chunking) Chicken

Chongqing (Chunking) Chicken

Most Chinese food lovers are probably aware that Sichuan cuisine is well known for its spicy dishes, but Chongqing (Chunking) has many famous spicy dishes as …

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Steamed Chicken with Shiitake, Wood Ear, and Lily Flowers

Steamed Chicken with Shiitake, Wood Ear, and Lily Flowers

Perusing through the dried Chinese ingredients in my local Asian groceries can be a fun time. It is messy and the organization is not always perfect, sometimes …

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Sekba Babi - Peranakan Pork Stew

Sekba Babi - Peranakan Pork Stew

Sekba babi is a very famous Indonesian-Chinese peranakan dish. A peranakan dish typically means that the dish that has been adapted over time and has evolved …

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Pindang Salmon - Salmon in Spicy and Sour Soup

Pindang Salmon - Salmon in Spicy and Sour Soup

The city of Palembang on the island of Sumatra is famous for its seafood dishes, and this pindang salmon (salmon in spicy and sour soup) is one such dish. In …

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Lapis Legit - Thousand Layers Cake

Lapis Legit - Thousand Layers Cake

Lapis legit/spekkoek/Indonesian thousand layers cake is a must for special celebrations such as Chinese New Year, Christmas, or Eid. Traditional recipes use 40 egg yolks, but this recipe with 12 eggs still yields a very rich and very tender cake, and full of aroma of spekkoek seasoning.

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Soto Daging - Indonesian Beef Soup

Soto Daging - Indonesian Beef Soup

Indonesian soto daging (beef soup) is one of the easiest soup to prepare, basically a dump and forget kind of soup, and perfect for busy days.

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Sup Lobak Daging - Daikon and Beef Soup

Sup Lobak Daging - Daikon and Beef Soup

Thinly sliced daikon radish paired with cubed beef chucks make for an easy Indonesian sup lobak daging (daikon and beef soup) perfect for the cold weather.

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Dubu Jorim - Braised Tofu and Ground Beef

Dubu Jorim - Braised Tofu and Ground Beef

Winter is a good time to enjoy a good spicy braising dish, and I find myself drawn to Korean dubu jorim many times this time of year. This dish is really easy …

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Oven-Baked Tofu

Oven-Baked Tofu

Fried tofu cubes are so handy. You can snack on them, add to salads, or use in recipes. Follow this easy recipe and go make fried tofu cubes in your oven.

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Matcha Muffins with Buttermilk Pancake Mix

Matcha Muffins with Buttermilk Pancake Mix

Do you know you can bake a batch of delicious Japanese matcha muffins with Krusteaz buttermilk pancake mix? Now you don't need to buy Morinaga hotcake mix!

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Sus Vla Tepung Beras - Cream Puffs with Rice Flour Pastry Cream

Sus Vla Tepung Beras - Cream Puffs with Rice Flour Pastry Cream

Everyone loves a good batch of delicious kue sus/cream puffs/choux pastry. This version is filled with super smooth (no lumps!) rice flour pastry cream.

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