Stir Fried Five Spice Tofu with Chinese Chives
A dish that's simple enough for a weeknight but bold enough to impress your mates.
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Sticky BBQ Char Siu Bao are soft, fluffy steamed buns filled with rich, caramelised homemade char siu pork. This Sticky BBQ Char Siu Bao recipe uses a classic thick to thin
sauce ratio of hoisin, ketchup and sugar balanced with dark soy and rice vinegar, then slow roasted for deep flavour before being folded into pillowy bao dough.
Char siu bao are a Cantonese dim sum favourite. The key is sticky, well reduced pork filling that is not too wet, paired with a light, slightly sweet steamed dough.
Soybean Paste Steamed Fish
Steamed Whole Fish Chinese Tau Cheo Style is a classic Cantonese home dish that celebrates freshness, simplicity and balance. Tau cheo, a fermented soybean paste, forms the savoury backbone of this recipe, blended with ginger, garlic and plum sauce to create a deeply aromatic paste that steams gently over the fish.
In Chinese cuisine, steaming a whole fish symbolises abundance and prosperity. The key is choosing a very fresh fish, steaming it just long enough to cook through, then finishing with hot oil poured over spring onion and chilli to release fragrance and sizzle.
Hong Kong Style Dan Tat
Tasty Chinese Egg Tarts are a true Hong Kong bakery classic. Unlike Portuguese egg tarts, which caramelise on top, these traditional Cantonese egg tarts should have a smooth, glossy yellow surface with no browning. The custard should be silky, lightly set and melt in the mouth, with flaky puff pastry underneath.
This Tasty Chinese Egg Tart recipe uses palm sugar syrup for a deeper, more complex sweetness. The key techniques are reducing the syrup correctly, removing excess air from the egg mixture and carefully controlling oven temperature to prevent caramelisation while ensuring the pastry cooks through.
