Spicy Dumpling

When weather is really hot and humid like now, I like to eat spicy food. This dumpling is great for this hot weather.
Also you can server this for party too.

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Vegan Daikon Radish Kimchi (Gakdugi)

Kimchi (also spelled kimchee) is a traditional Korean vegetable pickles. Daikon kimchi is one of the popular variety and one of my favorite kimchi.
I like to eat kimchi in summer time when I do not have appetite.
Usually we add shrimp paste or fish sauce to make kimchi, but this time I use asian pear [...]

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Smoked Salmon Sushi Ball (temari sushi)

Sushi Ball (temari sushi) is very simple way to make sushi at home and looks very pretty.
As temari means thread balls in Japanese, temarizushi, or temari sushi, are small and ball-shaped sushi. Temari sushi are usually cooked on happy occasions. These are easy to eat sushi and good for parties.

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Easy Buddha’s Delight recipe

We celebrate Chinese New Year last weekend.
I cooked Budda’s Delight for New Year.
Budda’s Delgiht (lo han jai) is a vegetarian dish well known in Chinese and Buddhist cuisine.
It is traditionally served on the first day of the Chinese New Year both to cleanse out the body and to honor a Buddhist tradition that nothing [...]

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Chive Dumpling humburg

Chinese Chive Dumpling is my favarite dish. Wheneveer I go to dim sum restaurant, I order them.
I cannot make exactly same chive dumpling, but I found this recipe is also another chive dumpling I like.
I used Chinese chive for this dish. You can get it from most asian super market.

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Korean Ginseng Chicken Soup :Sam Gye Tang

Sam Gye Tang (Korean ginseng chicken soup) is traditionally served in the summer for its supposed nutrients, which replaces those lost through excessive sweating and physical exertion during the hot summers in Korea.
My mom always cooked for me this dish whenever I am sick.
This is my comfort food and remind me of my mom a [...]

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kabocha Rice Porridge Soup

Kabocha is Japanese winter squash. This vegetable is very sweet and tasty.
I cook often this vegetable in winter season.
I cook Rice Porridge Soup with kabocha and left over my brown rice.
It is good for your breakfast.

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black sesame spaghetti with root vegetables

I cooked tahini paste based spaghetti with root vegetables such as gobo (burdock root), renkon (lotus root), carrot.
Look like Halloween color!!
In Japan, I use black sesame paste for this dish, but this time, I added black sesami in tahini.
Recipe is really simple.

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carrot rice with Korean-style

This is very easy dish to cook in weekday.

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bite size korean style lotus root pan cake

This is another korean style pancake made from lotus root.
I like texture of grated lotus root because it is like Mochi.

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