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Category Archives: Pork
Ground pork with fresh chiles and aromatic herbs
Here we have another Thai-inspired dish. Thailand is famous for recipes in which ground meat is simmered in a tasty liquid and finished off with plenty of fresh aromatic herbs. Called laarb (ลาบ), these dishes are simple to make and a … Continue reading
Posted in Basil, Meat, Pork, Recipes, Stew, Stir-fry
Tagged Asia, Asian food, China, chinese food, ground pork, laarb, larb, Thai food, thai ground pork
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Simple everyday pork
The Chinese word for meat (肉, ròu) implies pork, demonstrating just how how central to Chinese cuisine it is. Pork is enjoyed in all kinds of ways: seasoned and air-cured into tasty bacon, stir-fried as a main dish, barbecued, or ground … Continue reading
Posted in Meat, Pork, Recipes, Stir-fry
Tagged Asia, Asian food, China, chinese food, Lao Gan Ma, pork, Sichuan, Sichuan peppers
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Red-braised pork belly (红烧肉)
Red-braised pork belly (红烧肉, hóngshāo ròu) is such a common dish, and so simple, that I can’t believe it’s taken me this long to add the recipe to TastyAsia. Red-braising means braising meat in soy sauce and water or stock. Pretty … Continue reading
Posted in Braising, Meat, Pork, Recipes
Tagged China, chinese food, Chinese pork belly, pork belly, red braised pork belly, red braising
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Green beans and pork in “fish-fragrant” sauce
To the Western ear, “fish-fragrant” sauce has a very strange name. Does it taste like fish? Does it smell like fish? No, not hardly. “Fish-fragrant” (魚香, yúxiāng) is the name of a sauce that comes from Sichuanese cuisine, originally developed to accompany … Continue reading
Posted in Long beans, Meat, Pork, Recipes, Stir-fry, Vegetables
Tagged Asia, Asian food, China, chinese food, fish fragrant, long beans, pork
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Bamboo shoots with bacon, chiles, and fresh basil
This is a home-cooked recreation of a Beijing restaurant dish. The restaurant in this case is another belonging to that great and rare genre, “Beijing creative.” Here is my version: And here is my poor quality, underexposed, out-of-focus, iPhone shot … Continue reading
Posted in Bamboo, Pork, Recipes, Stir-fry, Vegetables
Tagged Asia, Asian food, bacon, bamboo, bamboo shoots, Beijing, Beijing cuisine, China, chinese food
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Bacon with wood ear mushrooms and tofu (培根双鲜)
This dish was an outstanding success. The tastes blended really well together and the textures were wonderfully complimentary. Wood ear mushrooms (木耳, mùěr), which are usually sold dried and need to be soaked in warm water before using, have an earthy … Continue reading
Posted in Meat, Mushrooms, Pork, Recipes, Stir-fry, Tofu, Vegetables
Tagged Asia, Asian food, bacon, China, chinese food, mushrooms, pork, tofu
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Seafood hotpot (海鲜火锅)
This is the first Chinese hotpot dish on TastyAsia, but it certainly won’t be the last. That’s because the variations on hotpot are limited only by your imagination and what’s available at your local markets. Chinese hotpot has three main … Continue reading
Posted in Bok choy, Crab, Fish and seafood, Hotpot, Meat, Pork, Recipes, Vegetables
Tagged Asia, Asian food, China, Chinese, chinese food, Crab, fish tofu, hot pot, hotpot
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Mapo doufu (麻婆豆腐)
Legend has it that there was an old lady (婆, pó) in Chengdu who was once afflicted with some kind of disease such as leprosy or smallpox, and thus disfigured with pockmarks (麻子, mázi). She lived on the outskirts of the … Continue reading
Posted in Meat, Pork, Recipes, Stir-fry, Tofu, Vegetables
Tagged Asia, Asian food, China, chinese food, ma po tofu, mapo doufu, mapo tofu, Sichuan, Sichuan peppers, Sichuanese food, tofu
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Burmese eggplant curry
The first eggplant recipe I posted on this blog was a Sichuanese dish. Now it’s time for another take on eggplant, this time from Burma. As you move southwestwards from Sichuan Provence, the mountains of the Tibetan Plateau of China eventually give … Continue reading
Posted in Curry, Eggplant, Meat, Pork, Recipes, Vegetables
Tagged Asia, Asian cuisine, Asian food, Burma, Burmese cuisine, Burmese curry, Burmese food, China, Chinese cuisine, chinese food, curry, eggplant, eggplant curry, pork, shrimp, shrimp paste
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