Adventures in Mika's Kitchen
Here’s one of my basic stand-by side dishes: Asian style coleslaw with a sweet sesame dressing (no mayo!). It’s pretty easy to prepare, and works well as a quick salad or side to accompany your meal! For best results, use Savoy cabbage (it’s the round head of cabbage with wrinkly looking leaves). If you can’t [...]
Earlier this week, I read some articles on the “Watermelon Toast” craze that has hit Taiwan. Lee Wen-fa (a head baker at Jimmy’s Bakery in Yilan County, Taiwan) created a fantastic watermelon shaped and colored loaf of fluffy Asian style milk bread (shokupan) in order to “encourage young children to eat more during the hot summer [...]
One of my husband’s favorite Taiwanese dishes, is “Tsao Mi Fun” (stir fried rice noodles). Everyone has their favorite version of this noodle dish (using slightly different ingredients and additions) – and his favorite happens to be the version that his sister makes. Over Christmas, my sister-in-law decided to make Tsao Mi Fun and agreed [...]
Here’s a quick stir-fry recipe that is bursting with orange flavor! This is a dish that is really easy to throw together quickly – your stir-fry will be done and ready before your rice is done steaming. Or… if you are planning ahead, you can marinade the meat overnight in the refrigerator, prep the vegetables, [...]
On our recent trip to the Big Island of Hawaii, we had dinner at the Kamuela Provision Company at the Hilton Waikoloa Village Resort. We tried the Ginger Steamed Monchong… OMG it was to die for! So soft and tender… flavored with a tasty ginger-soy-hot peanut oil sauce. I vowed that when I got home, [...]
My favorite summer beverages are fresh Watermelon Milk (Xigua Niu Nai) and fresh Watermelon Juice (Xigua Zhi). We don’t really live near any Boba tea shops… otherwise I could get Watermelon drink fix pretty easily… so I usually have to make my own during the summer when watermelon is in season. Last year when we [...]
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