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Quick Homemade Fresh Rice Noodles with Chili Garlic Sauce
I love meals that come together quickly, require minimum cooking and deliver on flavor. I also love fresh rice noodles but we can only buy them in Asian stores and we don’t have one nearby. Just like their wheat counterpart, pasta, fresh rice noodles are soft, and only need a few minutes to cook. You […]
Potato Noodles With Gochujang Sauce (no egg, no flour)
There are so many kinds of noodles! Wheat noodles (pasta), rice stick noodles, glass noodles, soba, ramen, Udon, egg noodles, etc. They are all delicious and can be made into all kinds of dishes like soups, stir fries, salads, rolls… But there is another kind of noodle that I have discovered that is now my […]
Thai Pineapple Fried Rice
Of all the vegetable fried rice dishes I have sampled over the years in the US and abroad, pineapple fried rice has to be one of my absolute favorite. I have had it in Thai, Malaysian, and Indonesian restaurants. It is totally different from Chinese fried rice. It has a beautiful golden color, an almost […]
Burmese Spiced Split Pea Fritters
Burmese food has the most wonderful combination of sour, salty, bitter and spicy flavors. If you look at a map of Asia, you will notice that Burma sits between India, and China, and share borders with Bangladesh, Thailand, and Laos. No wonder Burmese cuisine is so tasty! A little background on Burma If you are […]
Vegan Okonomiyaki
We recently discovered that there was a new vegan Japanese restaurant in Portland. It is called Obon Shokudo (at 720 se grand ave). They serve traditional Japanese dishes minus the fish, meat and eggs! It was lovely and it reminded us of Okonomiyaki pancakes as it was on their menu. “Okonomiyaki”, now that’s a […]
