Siomai soup is a hearty soup featuring a popular dumpling called siomai. Instead of just steaming the siomai, we made a soup stock flavored with chicken broth, sesame oil, fish sauce, ginger, onion and garlic.
Tamarind is a tropical fruit that may not be the prettiest or fanciest fruit, but this brown shelled ingredient is favored by many for being a sweet sour taste that just wakes you up, and
The Kalabasa squash or spelled ‘Calabaza’ vegetable, is a Spanish generic term for the winter squash, in English this is called ‘West Indian Pumpkin’. A tropical vegetable similar to a pumpkin, it has a beautiful
Muscovado sugar or Barbados sugar is a dark brown-colored partially 100% unrefined cane sugar that has been evaporated, leaving it to contain natural molasses, giving it a deep toffee-like taste and moist texture. While many
Yakult or “Yakult probiotic drink” is a familiar drink to many kids and adults alike. A small sweet beverage that came from Japan during the 1930’s, now spread all around 40 more countries around the
The Upo vegetable, also called the ‘Bottle gourd’ or ‘Calabash’ (with the scientific name Lagenaria siceraria) is a tropical vegetable-fruit with a high carbohydrate content, eaten as a main dish, usually sauteed with pork or
Bay Leaves from the Bay Tree or “Laurus Nobilis’ originating from the Mediterranean, are an aromatic leaf-herb commonly used fresh, dried, or powdered in cooking, with some traditions using it to repel bad energies or
Pechay in English this is known to be “Bok Choy”, a biennial plant that can grow to a height of around 15-30 cm in the vegetative stage. A leafy vegetable that can be grown at
The galunggong fish or the blue mackerel scad, round scad, maachili or shortfin scad. Is a staple fish in the Philippines, a very relevant fish that the price of the round scad is said to
Star Anise or the dried fruit of an “Illicium Verum” is an evergreen shrub native to Southwest China and Northeast of Vietnam. More familiarly known for its dried form of pods sometimes with seeds inside
