Thai Ginger Chicken
Bami Goreng
Nuoc Cham
Bok Choy, Pak Choi
Bean Sheets
Enoki Mushrooms, Enokitake
Chard, Swiss Chard
Egg in a Cloud
Golden Needles
Pineapple Fried Rice
Manchego
Figs (Ficus carica)
Goi Ga Vietnamese Chicken Salad
Pudina, Thai Mint
Shrimp Rolls
Chicken Cacciatore
Habanero Chili
Polygonum odoratum Vietnamese Mint
Kung Pao
Rice Paper
Katsuobushi, dried Bonito flakes are an essential ingredient in japanese cooking, especially to prepare Dashi, a soup stock used for the japanese breakfast Miso soup. Katsuobushi is made from skipjack tuna (Katsuwonus pelamis), commonly called bonito. The production of Katsuobushi is quite elaborate and dates back to the year 1675. First the bonito is filleted,
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Huang Jiu characterises chinese rice wines and liquors and means yellow wine. Internationaly most known is the dark Shao Xing Huang Jiu, which is essential in chinese cooking. Shaoxing, name giver for the high grade version of rice wine, is the chinese city Shaoxing in the province Zhejiang in East China. The China Shaoxing Yellow
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Mirin, the real Mirin is called Hon Mirin, is a sweet rice wine from Japan, with less alcohol, than rice wine. Mirin is produced by alcoholic fermentation from rice, yeast, water, alcohol, sugar and spices and has an alcohol content of about 14 %. Mirin is widely used in asian cuisines, especially the japanese, korean
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Sauerkraut, finely shredded cabbage, fermented by lactic acid bacteria, is often confused with coleslaw. The big difference between sauerkraut (sour cabbage) and coleslaw is, that coleslaw gets its sourness by vinegar and sauerkraut by a fermentation process. World champions in the consumption of sauerkraut are the Germans, so during the world wars they got the
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Pumpernickel is a very dark and heavy bread, originated in the region of Westphalia in Germany. The “black bread” from Westphalia has first been mentioned in 1450 and the probably eldest pumpernickel bakery has ben founded by Jörgen Haverlanth in Soest in 1570. Pumpernickel is made from coarsely ground rye and whole rye grains, the
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Black Rice Vinegar is a vinegar delicacy originated from China. Black rice wine vinegar, the Asian balsamico, is made from fermented sticky rice (glutinous rice). First there is a rice wine produced and then by adding bacteria, the alcohol is turned into an acid. To get the dark, sweet black vinegar, caramel, sugar and spices
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Surimi, is the Japanese word for ground meat, and mostly used for imitation crab meat. Surimi, made from white fish, is very popular in Asia and often sold as seafood sticks or crab sticks. Surimi has been created about 900 years ago in Japan, the industrial technology has been developed in the 1960s. Surimi, imitation
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