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SIMPLE AND QUICK JAPANESE RECIPES – WAFU PASTA JAPANESE PASTA IN MINUTES

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Wafu pasta (和風) which is japanese style pasta is one genius way of cooking pasta. They are lighter on the palate than some of the popular Italian recipes around, and with that dose of Japanese asian flavours in it, you can create many different pasta dishes.

You can add fish roe, seaweed, pork slices, mushrooms, and many other asian ingredients to this dish, very versatile and for the older generation, they also prefer this flavor as well. 🙂 This time round I have decided to use meihijiki.

japanese pasta meihijiki with bacon & mushroom

Hijiki itself if a seaweed from japan, which has high dietary fibre and essential minerals, and it is good for health and beauty. You can use these for simmered dishes with soya sauce & japanese cooking wine, first look at it, and you might think it looks a bit strange, all short black strings of seaweed, but after cooking you can taste that subtle aroma from the seaweed, and I like how their texture like too, besides it is very easy to prepare too. 🙂

wafu pasta

Because this wafu pasta does not come with a lot of sauce, you can cook this and leave it to eat and you won’t feel soggy at all, it is more like fried noodles. 🙂

Ingredients needed

Hijiki x 1 table spoon

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SIMPLE AND QUICK RECIPES – PINEAPPLE RICE WITH DANCING CHEF

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Recently I have this keen interest in making rice dishes and few months back, someone mentioned to me about cooking pineapple rice and how simple it can be.

As I have never tried cooking this dish before, sound like something that I love – one pan cooking 🙂 & from recommendation, I bought my first Dancing Chef pineapple rice sauce. 🙂

dancing chef pineapple fried rice

Of course as usual I will tweak the recipe a little to suit my family and this time I added some ingredients that most of us like. It will be nice to cook from scratch, but I really do not mind to pay just over $1 to get a packet of spices or sauces to make my life easier too. 🙂
dancing chef pineapple fried rice

When it comes to pineapple rice, there need to be a concentration of flavours, and has to be a melange of sourness, sweetness and spice. A balance between the savory part which is the meat, shrimps and even pork floss and the sweet part which is pineapple, raisins. Of course the crunch from the cashews will give it an extra bite. 🙂

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QUICK & SIMPLE RECIPES – SEAH’S HERBAL CHICKEN – HERBAL GOODNESS AT YOUR FINGERTIPS – TRIED & TESTED

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I like herbal chicken, the really tender texture of chicken dipped into dark soya sauce with freshly cut chilli is really irresistible.

However I also find it hard to get nice ones in hawker center, for the good ones, the price you pay you get only a small portion which means I have to get a few portions at one go to feed the whole family and that add up the costs.

So when I see Seah’s herbal chicken mix, I thought I ll give it a try, sound like a no brainer recipe really. 🙂

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QUICK AND SIMPLE RECIPES – SALAD USING KWEPIE MENTAIKO DRESSING

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Spicy fish roe is a delicacies in Japan that it has transform itself to different products. Don’t be surprise if you come across products such as bread, salad dressing, rice balls, potato chips, rice crackers, biscuits with flavours of spicy fish roe (mentaiko).

I am totally a convert to spicy fish roe, the first time I saw my ex-Japanese boss bringing his lunch box packed by his wife, inside his lunch box, it only contains rice, spicy fish roe and a side salad. I was so intrigued that in my Japan trip, I finally bought it from the airport and cooked my first mentaiko spaghetti, and it tasted so yummy and surreal!

The savory of the fish roe and a little hint of spiciness is so addictive, it has zero taste of fishiness yet it is just something that you can’t get your head around, how the flavour can go well with so many food. And from there onwards, I have been hooked, whenever I saw products that is made of spicy fish roe, it will just go straight into my supermarket shopping basket. 🙂

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HEART SHAPE GRILLED STEAK COOKED IN JAPANESE STYLE – HONG KONG TV STYLE!

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Growing up with Hong Kong TV shows, you can hear quite a bit of the actors actresses cooking for their someone special, and very frequently you will hear them saying “Heart Shape Grilled Steak” haha.. that bring back all the “old” memories indeed.

So to revive my good old memories, I have decided to try out “Heart Shape Grilled Steak” for my husband. Rather doing it the western way, I used grated radish to add some color to it, you can find my recipes for grated radish here. 🙂

Heart Shape Grilled Steak

For those, that are scratching their heads or on the verge of pressing panic mode thinking what to cook, perhaps you can try this out, super simple and quick recipes – Heart shaped Grilled Steak cooked in Japanese style.

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QUICK AND SIMPLE DIPPLE SAUCE RECIPES – CITRUS SOYA SAUCE WITH DAIKON OROSHI OR GRATED RADISH

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Okay, if you have checked out my steamboat post, then you will have some new ideas of dipping sauce ideas. One of the dipping sauce is citrus soya sauce + grated radish.

This dipping sauce is extremely versatile, and you can use it on many dishes. You can use it with grilled items like grilled fish or barbeque meat, or shabu shabu steamboat meats. I like to also cook steak, top it with grated radish and sprinkle with lots of chopped spring onions and a drizzle of citrus soya sauce.

But how exactly do you make the grated radish. I have a few tips for you to ensure you have some tip top grated radish for your meal 🙂

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SIMPLE AND QUICK RECIPES – CHINESE NEW YEAR STEAMBOAT MEAT VEGE ROLLS AND CREATIVE DIPPING SAUCE IDEAS

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By now you probably have tried different steam boat broth and ingredients, but if you are still craving for more or wanted something different, then you might like to check out my recipes below.

I have set up this steamboat dinner on the first day of chinese new year, as I knew I will be able to eat the traditional steamboat fare at my relative’s place so I wanted to make mine a little different, a little more cosy actually.

So for our home steamboat, what I did is a mixture of Japanese cum Chinese style. I have made meat vegetable rolls, using Japanese seafood like oysters and also using Japanese dipping sauce .

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QUICK & SIMPLE REUNION DINNER RECIPES – MISO BUTTER SCALLOPS AND BROCCOLI WITH SCALLOPS

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I was testing out some Reunion Dishes at home in anticipating for coming Chinese New Year. While I was at Carrefour over the weekends, there were already lots of frozen seafood on sale, and I spotted these really juicy looking scallops from the promotion corner.

So I have decided to cook up 2 dishes using scallop, both Chinese & Japanese style.

For Chinese I have cooked up a scallop with broccoli sauteed and for Japanese, I have prepared a miso butter scallop which goes very well with rice dishes.

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QUICK & SIMPLE RECIPES – KOREAN PANCAKES IN WHATEVER WAY YOU WANT

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Following the quick and simple recipe for Japanese savory pancakes called Okonomiyaki, this is the second part of the recipe, this time I am pairing it with kimchi to make Korean savory pancakes.

For Korean pancakes, to attain the best chewiness and crispiness, I will recommend you to buy the korean pancake flour which is selling in all major supermarkets. You can definitely know it is for Korean pancakes because you can find the pictures of some lip smackingly good panckes on the yellow packaging. 🙂 korean pancake recipe

However if you do not have time to go and get the powder or you still have quite a big pack of flour yet to use, you can always use it to cook these really yummy treats. 🙂

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QUICK & SIMPLE RECIPES – CHEESE FONDUE RECIPES FOR PARTY IDEAS

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I recently got this really cool fondue set from groupon, paid only a fraction of the price for it. I have always wanted to make cheese fondue or chocolate fondue at home during weekends for a leisure dinner.

So imagine when I got this home, all brimming with excitement 🙂

Cheese Fondue with Crusted Bread

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