Dumpling House Find: Mimi Cheng’s Dumplings NYC
Mimi Cheng’s Dumplings NYC is a dumpling house owned by 20-something year old sisters Hannah and Marian Cheng who are turning out the freshest, lightest homemade dumplings in the city. You won’t find any dirty dumplings at Mimi Cheng’s ”“ only clean healthy ones made from their mother’s secret recipe using pasture-raised meat from Fleishers […]
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Restaurant Find: Nom Wah Tea Parlor NYC
This restaurant is worth visiting for the history alone. Dating back to 1920, Nom Wah Tea Parlor is the oldest dim sum restaurant in NYC! Head here for freshly cooked dim sum (made-to-order, not carted around the restaurant) and order the Shrimp and Snow Pea Leaf Dumpling pictured above. A great weekend yum cha outing […]
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Crispy pork belly with apple sauce: A worthy mission
I learned something very interesting about the Dutch this weekend: that they don’t tend to appreciate roast pork with a good piece of crackling like many other countries of the world do. You’re probably asking who on earth wouldn’t love a piece of crackling other than vegetarian? Well according to the butcher at the Noordermarkt, […]
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Crispy tiger prawns with honey and garlic sauce: A new household favourite
This was the first of what will be many times that I cook this dish – It was an instant hit in our household. The cornflour and egg mixture creates a chewy crunchiness when you deep-fry it with the prawns and the honey and garlic sauce is wonderfully sticky and caramelises from the heat of […]
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Why chicken tikka masala is Britain’s no. 1 dish
When a dish is not considered to be authentic, like Chinese lemon chicken for example, is it right to say that it is inferior? I have always thought so”¦ at least in the case of Chinese food. We’ve all had one of those terrible anglicised chicken stir-fries with thick gravies full of corn flour and […]
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