Sichuan Hot Pot is a classic Chinese communal meal featuring a deeply flavoured broth infused with chilli bean paste, Sichuan peppercorns and aromatic spices. Guests cook their own meats, vegetables and noodles at the table before dipping them into personalised sauces for the ultimate interactive feast.
Tteokbokki is a popular Korean street food made with chewy rice cakes simmered in a spicy, sweet and savoury gochujang sauce. This version uses a light anchovy and kombu stock for depth, with fish cakes and vegetables added for texture. The sauce thickens as it cooks, coating each rice cake in a rich, glossy glaze.
This Taiwanese Sesame Oil Chicken Soup is a comforting, nourishing broth made with roasted chicken, ginger, spring onions and Taiwanese rice wine. Finished with black sesame oil, it's a warming soup that's traditionally enjoyed when you're feeling under the weather or simply in need of something restorative.
Gado-Gado is one of Indonesia's best-loved salads, combining crisp vegetables, potatoes, eggs and fresh salad leaves with a rich, fragrant peanut sauce. This version is flavoured with lime leaves, shrimp paste, tamarind, coconut milk and kecap manis, creating a beautifully balanced dressing that's sweet, savoury, nutty and gently tangy. Finished with crispy fried shallots and spring onions, it's a hearty salad that's anything but ordinary.
Quick and Easy Flash Fried Morning Glory is one of the fastest and most satisfying wok side dishes you can make. This Quick and Easy Flash Fried Morning Glory recipe relies entirely on extreme heat, precise timing and confident wok movement to keep the stems crunchy and the leaves vibrant green.
Popular across Thailand and Southern China, morning glory, also known as water spinach, is traditionally cooked in under a minute. The key is preparing everything first, then cooking at smoking heat so the aromatics caramelise instantly without overcooking the greens.
Pineapple Buns are a classic Hong Kong bakery treat—soft, fluffy sweet buns topped with a crumbly, golden crust that resembles a pineapple. Often served warm with a slice of butter, they’re rich, nostalgic and irresistible.
Lotus Leaf Fried Rice is a fragrant, earthy festive dish where savoury sausage, dried shrimp and mushrooms are stir fried with rice, wrapped in soaked lotus leaf and steamed to infuse a delicate tea like aroma. This Lotus Leaf Fried Rice recipe layers flavour in the wok first, then finishes with a second steam to allow the lotus leaf to perfume the rice beautifully.
Often served at banquets and special occasions, lotus leaf fried rice is about depth and aroma. The sausage fat coats each grain, the dried shrimp add umami, and the final steam transforms the dish completely.
Classic Ginger Spring Onion Chicken
Super Simple Chinese Chicken & Asparagus Stir Fry is the kind of quick midweek dish you would cook a few times a week in a Cantonese household. This Super Simple Chinese Chicken & Asparagus Stir Fry recipe focuses on high heat, clean flavours and proper wok technique to achieve tender chicken, crisp asparagus and a silky sauce.
The balance comes from light soy sauce, oyster sauce and Shaoxing rice wine, while a pinch of five spice in the marinade adds subtle warmth. Cornflour in the chicken marinade creates that signature silky coating that thickens the sauce naturally when it hits the wok.
Chilli Chilli Chicken is a rustic Indonesian-inspired dish where chicken legs are slowly braised in a fragrant chilli sambal made from bird’s eye chillies, garlic, ginger and tomatoes. The chicken is first browned for colour, then simmered in the spicy sauce with lemongrass and lime leaves until tender. Slow cooking softens the intense heat of the chillies while drawing out their natural sweetness, creating a deeply aromatic and fiery dish.
These Vietnamese Lemongrass BBQ Pork Chops are marinated in a fragrant blend of lemongrass, garlic, fish sauce, soy sauce, oyster sauce and palm sugar before being grilled over a barbecue and repeatedly glazed with a sticky tamarind-honey sauce. The result is beautifully charred, juicy pork with the perfect balance of sweet, savoury and smoky flavours, traditionally served with Vietnamese broken rice (Cơm Tấm).
