飲食天王, King of Catering Award

Just turned on the TV on Saturday night, and came across ‘King of Catering Award’ show on TVB HD channel. It’s an awards night, in the form of Academy Awards etc, but it’s about awarding restaurants in different categories. I only started watching half way of 2h show, but I’ve seen category winners of Sushi, [...]

阿蘇’s recipe 糖醋青瓜荷包蛋

糖醋青瓜荷包蛋 = sweet & sour cucumber with fried eggs? something like that.

May sound weird to Westerners (& to some extent, Japanese), but as Chinese people traditionally don’t really eat vegetables raw, cooked cucumber is perfectly fine & quite delicious. I like just cooking it with sesame oil, ginger & soy, but this one combines fried [...]

Twitchie!

No, I’m not talking about myself! but there’s this thing I saw on TV (no I don’t watch TV all the time either!!!). It was on a BS1 channel (Japanese) show called ‘New York Waves’ introducing different subcultures among youths in NY.
This guy, Rapheal is a leader of ‘Tech Craft’ movement in NY – they [...]

BS debate (Japanese TV)

Just turned on BS1 (one of sub-channels of NHK, a Japanese TV channel) expecting to watch a light-hearted traveling show called ‘Out & About’, but ended up watching a debate show involving 3 young politicians from the Japanese Democratic (Minshutoh 民主党) party, which of course is the new political party which won a landslide victory [...]

HK JPTimeTV 香港aTV じゃぱナビ

It a TV show on aTV on Sunday at 6:25pm. I do often miss it as we’re out on Sunday afternoon, but you can watch missed episodes on their website (http://www.jptime.tv/ an ancient website which sometimes has issues with my browsers, but it’ll get there in the end). It’s the first (& only) HK locally [...]

クレヨンしんちゃん　蠟筆小新

This would not make sense to people other than in Japan or HK/Chinese speaking cultures, but the author of the cartoon クレヨンしんちゃん (in Japan) & 蠟筆小新 (in HK/China) passed away recently from a fall while hiking in a mountain after being missing for a week or so. It shocked the nation. My thoughts are with [...]

Chinese saying

‘Sweets signify sweet life in Chinese’
I just heard that on TV (Dolce Vita on Pearl) – showing some wonderful sweets for the mid autumn festival – not just mooncakes, but this great deep-fried puff pastry made to look like peonies & candied walnuts (yum!)
On the topic of mooncakes, I think mooncakes in this blog below [...]

美女厨房 Beautiful Cooking (TV Show)

美人厨房 Beautiful Cooking is a popular TV Show in HK shown on Sunday night. I started watching it when it first aired & been quite constantly viewing is since (now it’s season 2). The format is like ‘Iron chef’ in a sense, but instead of ‘Culinary legends’ & professional chefs, there are 3 girls, some [...]

阿蘇’s recipe 咸酸菜炒魷魚

There are lot’s of fresh squid at wet market & they’re quite cheap. They’re also great diet food. Must try this one! I might add red capsicums which may be nice.
鹹酸菜炒魷魚 阿SO食譜
(hum-san-tsoi char ??? yu/ stir-fried squid with salty sour pickled vegetable)
材料：鹹酸菜、魷魚、指天椒四條、蒜頭四至五顆、蔥段
魷魚醃料︰鹽、芡粉各少許
調味料︰糖、香油、酒適量
製法
1. 把鹹酸菜浸泡一個多小時，然後擠乾
2. 取鹹酸菜的莖部切絲，下糖調味
3. 把魷魚切絲，下醃料
4. 燒紅鍋子，用蒜頭起鍋
5. 略炒魷魚絲，下酒後盛起，撿去蒜頭
6. 炒鹹酸菜，再加糖、香油、蔥段、辣椒同炒
7. 最後下魷魚一起炒
注意事項
呢排魷魚當造好平，買多少少炒啦。洗魷魚好易，只要將個筒入面d軟骨同內臟拎走就得架啦。有剩下餐可以配蝦醬同西蘭花炒，一樣惹味。
街市而家分開鹹同酸菜買架，可以一樣買一包如果鐘意食酸菜就買多少少囉。
I made this last night – [...]

阿蘇’s recipe 水豆腐

水豆腐 (literally ‘water tofu’ – savoury tofu dish with mince & mushrooms)
This looked so yummy & healthy on TV. Must try with toufuhua (soft tofu sold from a big bucket) from the snack shop around the corner. Sort of like soup, or non-spicy version of mapo tofu?
This is the closest image I could find… not [...]