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 ...
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 ...
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 ...