Smokey tasty!

 

I’ve stop updating my blog for sometime. Not that I stop cooking, but my life was ever changing since last summer’s visit to Montreal. I know it is quite lame to blame use “busy life” as an excuse, so I will stop apologizing and start blogging again. I do have quite a tasty journey over the [...]

Saute Broad Bean with Shredded Pork and Preserved Vegetable

There are a few vegetables are the regulars on my family’s dining table when it’s summer, broad bean is one of them. Every summer, my grandparents will buy fresh plump broad beans from the market. I love the color of broad bean, it’s so green but with a little black line [...]

Strawberry Rhubarb Pie

Donald Market is the new food market that I discovered on my random bus ride. It is located in the corner of Hestine and Nanaimo street. I was attracted by its colorful street stand showcasing some of the freshest seasonal fruits and vegetable. From the countless numbers of spring/summer seasonal delights, [...]

Omnivore’s Holiday (4) Shanghainess Dim-sum

 
Clock-wise: Drunken Chicken, Shanghainess-style Wonton soup, Pork ribs with rice cake and Xie-Ke-Huang, a sweet stuffed dessert.
 
    Last Saturday was one of the religious holiday for the many Buddhists, to celebrate the birth of the funder of the Buddhism. My family paid a visit to the Linyan Temple at Richmond for this festival. After the [...]

Omnivoire’s Holiday (1) Go Fish

May is THE month of the year for me, not only does my birthday falls on the 11th, also my cousin Rainy’s as well as two other my best friends were born at May. So many birthdays equal to many delicious meals or dining out. Typically, after all these celebration, I will feel my body [...]

Japadog and Lolita

“Oh Hot diggity dog! So good, I am almost in tears!”
 
After the last day of school, I decided to rest a little before preparation of my exams. Just a little excuse to go outside and enjoying the spring sunshine, blooming cherry and fresh breeze of the city waking up from the long gloomy winter. [...]

Burgoo— The place to go for comfort food in chilly winter

After a week of crystal clear sky and beautiful sunshine, Vancouver is back to its normal state of light rain with crisp chill breeze. Me and Kathy now have this Friday ritual of going to visit a restaurant that is both edible and affordable for a student budget; yummy food is necessary to celebrate [...]

Home Alone Cooking

Day 1: Sweet corn soup with crab meat; organic baby greens with balsamic vinaigrette dressing; pan sealed shark fillet with grilled sliced shitaki mushroom, seasoned with sea salt and black pepper; spinach noodle with peanut butter and soy sauce dressing. The shark fillet has a rougher texture compare to other fish, I think [...]

My sweet confection

“Chocolate Dipolmat Cake” Layers of dark chocolate cake, chocolate custard, puff pastry (puff pastry?! yes!!) and Belgian dark chocolate buttercream.

From Vancouver’s best dessert restaurant, True ConfectionsI just simply LOVE it, so good. I was not sure if puff pastry could go well with the creamy cake, but it turned out to be a teaser of [...]