When I lived in China over 10 years ago, I tasted smashed cucumber salad (拍黃瓜, pai huang gua) for the first time. It is a simple dish of cucumber pieces tossed with lots of garlic, vinegar, and ...
When I lived in Nanjing nearly 10 years ago, I was introduced to a delicious garlicky cucumber dish known as 涼拌黃瓜 (liang ban hua gua). It was a very simple dish, merely cucumbers tossed with a ...
In Japanese, soba means buckwheat, so soba noodles are made with buckwheat flour. If you're buying soba noodles from the store, which is what I usually do, you'll mostly likely see noodles that ...
Is it normal that I still enjoy slurping my noodles loudly? In many Asian cultures, that slurping noise means that you're actually enjoying the food. So, when I'm making obnoxious slurping ...