This Sichuan Sweet & Sour Pork Stir-Fry is a rustic take on the classic dish, combining tender pork shoulder with earthy mushrooms, bamboo shoots and pickled mustard greens in a rich sweet, sour and spicy sauce. Finished with toasted Sichuan peppercorns, it's packed with bold, comforting flavours.
This Simple Miso Soup is a classic Japanese comfort food made from homemade dashi infused with kombu and bonito flakes, finished with silky tofu, wakame seaweed and spring onions. Light, nourishing and packed with umami, it's a quick and authentic soup that's perfect as a starter or alongside any Japanese meal.
This Singapore Hokkien Mee is a comforting noodle dish combining egg noodles and rice vermicelli with prawns, bean sprouts and garlic chives, all cooked in a rich homemade prawn stock. Swapping lard for vegetable oil creates a lighter version while keeping all of the classic savoury flavour.
Steaming is one of the healthiest and most effective ways to cook chicken, producing exceptionally juicy meat while preserving its natural flavour. These two recipes showcase different approaches: a fragrant Guangxi Steamed Chicken topped with a sizzling Chinese chive dressing, and a complete Steamed Chicken & Mushroom Rice Bowl, where marinated chicken cooks directly over jasmine rice for an effortless one-bowl meal.
These Vietnamese Coconut Braised Pork Ribs are tender pork ribs gently braised in naturally sweet coconut water with fish sauce, oyster sauce and aromatics. The sauce reduces into a glossy, savoury-sweet glaze that caramelises beautifully around the ribs while the fresh coriander adds a final burst of flavour.
These Vietnamese Fish Sauce Chicken Wings are irresistibly crispy, sweet, savoury and spicy. The wings are first marinated in fish sauce and white pepper, coated in cornflour and deep-fried until crisp before being tossed in a glossy fish sauce caramel with crispy fried garlic, fresh coriander and chilli. The result is one of Vietnam's most popular street food dishes, delivering bold flavour in every bite.
Rè Gān Miàn (Hot Dry Noodles) is Wuhan's most famous breakfast dish. Unlike soup noodles, the cooked alkaline noodles are tossed with a rich sesame sauce, soy sauces, chilli oil and black rice vinegar, then topped with fresh garlic, spring onions and crunchy pickled vegetables. The result is a deeply savoury, nutty and aromatic noodle dish that's ready in just minutes.
These Thai-Style Fried Chicken Bao combine crispy marinated chicken with soft, fluffy steamed bao buns. Finished with sweet chilli sauce, pickles, crispy shallots and fresh coriander, they're the perfect fusion of Thai street food and Chinese bao.
Advanced Bao Folding Technique is a step by step guide to mastering professional level pleating for steamed bao buns. This Advanced Bao Folding Technique tutorial focuses on hand positioning, structured pleat progression and controlled twisting to achieve 5, 7, 9, 11 or even 13 neat pleats around your bao.
Beautiful pleats are not about speed. They are about structure, repetition and understanding how the dough sits in your hand. This technique works for bao buns, soup dumplings and larger steamed buns, helping you create a smooth rounded base with evenly spaced pleats that gather neatly at the top.
Alternate Ways To Cut Mango and Cucumbers is a knife skills tutorial inspired by street food techniques from Thailand and India. This Alternate Ways To Cut Mango and Cucumbers guide shows you how to julienne an unripe mango cleanly against the stone and how to fine dice a cucumber while keeping it mostly intact for control and precision.
These techniques focus on stability, control and using the natural structure of the ingredient to guide your knife. While traditionally done in the hand by experienced street vendors, this version adapts the methods safely for the home cook.