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Chinese Smashed Cucumber Salad (拍黃瓜)

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 ...

Chinese Garlic Cucumber Salad

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 ...

One of my favorite dishes in Southeast Asian cuisine is green papaya salad. It's tangy and light, and it does exactly what it is supposed to do: prepare our appetite for the main meal. This papaya ...

Soba Noodles with Almond Butter Sauce (Vegan)

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 ...

Shrimp and Pickled Vegetables Soba Bowl

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 ...