Tag: Chinese food

Congee is a warm, comforting food. People often refer to it as ‘rice porridge’, but I often associate porridge as something sweet, to me it is more like a savoury rice ‘soup’. Often associated with Chinese cuisine, this humble yet nourishing dish can usually be found in Chinese restaurants during lunch service, typically listed as…

There’s a smell I’ll never forget: the intense, almost heady aroma of a roast duck cooking in a UK kitchen on a cold winter’s day. It was the moment I realized what was genuinely possible with poultry, and it set me on a culinary journey. That initial inspiration, however, quickly turned into a decade long…

The dish, Eggplant with Minced Pork, is less a recipe and more a recurring bookmark in the story of my kitchen. For years, the foundation of this meal lay, quite literally, in a small, foil-lined packet of premix. This packet wasn’t just seasoning; it was a little shortcut, a culinary cheat sheet we’d lean on…