Noodles and Rice

February 20th, 2007

Ingredient Spotlight: Rock Sugar

From The Food of China:
Chinese recipes that call for generous amounts of oil, sugar, and chiu are usually of eastern Chinese origin. Sugar is most typically used in the solid, clear, crystalline form that has been called “rock sugar” in China for perhaps two thousand years. This form is supposed to be more […]

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January 19th, 2007

Melting Wok’s Sweet Mung Bean & Taro Dessert

Well here it is, the dessert that I just had to make. Very similar to the Filipino ginataan, but with more emphasis on the mung beans and the tapioca. I love the extra mung beans though, makes it healthier and that’s a big plus for me and hubby.

The ingredients. Would have used […]

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