Chao He Cai, a stir-fry of clear noodles, eggs, chives, carrots and bean sprouts, is Chinese home-cooked comfort food. Just like our tomato egg stir fry, it’s a modest dish. While it’s not shouting from the rooftops like some showier recipes, it’s what one would whip up at home on the regular—not simply because it’s
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Category Archive: ‘Rice, Noodles & Pasta’
Shredded Pork Pan-fried Noodles is a delicious dish with Hong-Kong-style crispy noodles and a flavorful pork stir-fry on top. The sauce drips down onto the noodles and makes for a very tasty combination! What Sets This Pan-fried Noodle Recipe Apart? This shredded pork pan-fried noodle recipe is the latest addition to our repertoire of pan-fried
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This cabbage stir-fry with glass noodles and scrambled eggs is an easy, economical, and satisfying recipe. It also happens to be vegetarian! It’s filling enough to be a main meal for one or two people, and makes a great side dish as part of a larger meal. Note: This recipe was originally published in August
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This Hokkien Noodles recipe (Ginger Scallion Hokkien Noodles, that is) is a 10-ingredient wonder. They also take just 20 minutes to prepare from start (i.e. walking into your apartment after a long day) to finish (i.e. parking your butt in front of the TV with a big bowl of noods and a jar of chili
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Salted Pork Bone Soup is a homestyle comfort food recipe that we crave in the wintertime. The addition of glass noodles makes this an extra satisfying meal (you can use mung bean noodles, as we have here, or sweet potato starch noodles, or even stir in cooked rice!) If you’ve never enjoyed this soup, it’s
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This Tomato Hot Pot with Beef is the perfect warming meal to take you through the winter. The tart and sweet tomatoes provide the perfect contrast to the marbled, thinly sliced beef. Enoki mushrooms and mung bean vermicelli both add additional textural contrast for a warming, satisfying meal. Is This Technically a “Hot Pot?” Well,
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This Chinese Lamb Noodle Soup recipe is inspired by the rich, milky broths of Western Chinese cuisine. It’s full of aromatics, but has a mellow earthy flavor from long-simmered lamb shanks, which cook down and fall right off the bone. Bright green cilantro, Chinese celery, and chili oil cuts through the richness, making for an
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Pad See Ew is what I would consider Thai fast food, right up there with all of our favorite takeout noodle dishes like Pork Lo Mein, Singapore Noodles, Pad Thai, and Drunken Noodles. It comes together quickly as long as all the ingredients are prepared ahead of time and ready to go into the wok!
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