The taste from the ocean floor of the deep sea, mixed with the fresh green from the primal land, combine to produce a masterwork of delicacy.

Abalone Rice 鲍鱼捞饭​

Ingredients​

• Abalone x6 鲍鱼
• Bok Choy/asparagus x4 小青菜/芦笋
• A bowl of cooked white rice 米饭
• 1 teaspoon of oyster sauce 蚝油
• 2 teaspoons of soy sauce 生抽
• 1 teaspoon of old soy sauce 老抽
• 2 teaspoons of cooking wine 料酒
• 2 teaspoons of starch 淀粉
• 1 slice of ginger 姜
• A little bit of white pepper 白胡椒

Instructions​

1. Clean the abalones and cut grid-like patterns on the surface.
2. Put cooking wine and white pepper to marinate them for 30 min.
3. Start boiling some water and put a slice of ginger and a little more cooking wine in it.
4. When the water is boiling, put the abalones in and take them out after 3 min.
5. Put bok choy in the water afterward and take them out after they're cooked.
6. Put all the sauces listed and starch in. Add more water if needed.
7. Wait until the mixture becomes sticky and the volume shrinks to the desired size.
8. Put the abalones back in and turn off the heat.
9. Arrange rice and bok choy and pour the abalones + sauce onto them.
10. Done and enjoy!

Adornment​

Welcome to my cooking blog. I don't know whether you are drooling or "ew-ing" in front of your screen, but at least my stomach is satisfied with these dishes.

Terminology​

I mainly cook Chinese cuisine so there's a translation gap between Chinese and English cooking jargon. I will define a couple of the common ones below.

• Old soy sauce - 老抽
• Aged vinegar - 陈醋
• Cooking wine - 料酒
• Cinnamon - 桂皮
• Star anise - 八角

More to come ...

Use of Tags​

Healthy: Blog posts with a healthy tag consist of all healthy dishes, namely every dish that contains both veggies and meat, low oil, low salt, and low sugar.

Convenient: A dish that can be cooked within 20 minutes from start to finish is categorized as a convenient dish.

Delicate: Complementing the convenient tag, a delicate tag means that the cooking process for the dish is time-consuming and requires some skillful work.

Spicy: On fire!

Vegan: Veggie!

Seafood: A dish that has seafood, such as fish, crabs, clams, etc., as its component. Fun fact: I'm a super big seafood fan.

Pork: A dish that uses pork as one of its ingredients.

Beef: A dish that uses beef as one of its ingredients.

The rest of the tags are pretty literal.

Blog Structure​

Title
├── Food Name (with a picture)
├── Ingredients
├── Instructions
└── Adornment (with a video)

There's always a luring picture at the beginning followed by ingredients and instructions.

Pictures may not come with instructions at each step. (I'm lazy.)

The adornment section is the apex of the blog, always in a form of a video. It evokes some inner satisfaction!

Enjoy~

Hardness and softness -> bones and fleshes; sweet and sour -> sugar and aged vinegar; The highly contrasting taste, the like an impressionist's artwork, is the key insight of this dish.

Sweet and Sour Pork Ribs 糖醋排骨​

Ingredients​

• 1 lb of pork ribs 猪小排
• 1 tsp of cooking wine 料酒
• 3 g of salt 盐
• 2 tsp of soy sauce 酱油
• 3 tsp of rice vinegar 米醋
• 4 tsp of sugar 糖
• A few slices of ginger 姜
• Sesame 芝麻

Instructions​

1. Clean the pork ribs and dry them out.
2. Heat a small amount of oil and put slices of ginger in it.
3. Put the pork ribs in and cook until they turn gold.
4. Put cooking wine -> soy sauce -> rice vinegar -> sugar.
5. Put water to the point where it can just cover the ribs.
6. Medium fire for 20 min with the lid closed.
7. Open the lid, put salt in, and switch to high fire to evaporate the water to the point of your liking.
8. Put sesame / green onion to decorate.

Adornment​