Dawna in the Kitchen

There are an awful lot of recipes out there for Black Pepper Tofu, it turns out. So why not one more? This version is adapted from a variet...

I'm a big fan of Mapo Tofu, a Sichuan dish that integrates small cubes of tofu into a spicy (think Sichuan peppercorn) flavourful minc...

One of the quintessential dishes of Singaporean cuisine, Hainanese Chicken Rice is a bone-deep satisfying meal dished up everywhere from Ha...

This is a delicious and simple dish (炸酱面, zhá jiàng miàn ) that appears in a variety of styles within China, as well many iterations and si...

If you have access to a good Asian grocery store, you might never need to make the noodles from scratch although it's not at all diffic...

Congee (also called jook in Cantonese, amongst many other names worldwide) is a rice porridge popular throughout Asia, and there are many ...

My mother used to make a version of this quite regularly, served over brown rice as was the custom of our household. I don't know where...

I learned about these lovely Chinese flatbreads while walking hurriedly through Vancouver's Chinatown, some years ago. The image of the...

I almost called this "Not-Quite Kung Pao Chicken" as the primary difference is the use of almond slivers instead of crushed or wh...

Duck Noodles are delicious. But you can already tell that, just from the name: Duck Noodles. This is partly a recipe and partly a servin...

This is fantastic hot or room-temperature, and just as good the next day. I use bulbous dark purple eggplants, as those are the ones availa...

Fried rice is a culinary wonder. How else can you take a few bits of meat, an egg, some scraps of vegetables, and leftover rice, and make a...

This is another one of those restaurant dishes that is so good, and so simple, but seems to be something that I don't make at home nea...

The first time I made this, I couldn't find the kind of tofu that I wanted, and I ended up with a pre-seasoned "spicy" tofu t...

My last post reminded me that I've really fallen down on posting my bentos, so here's another one: Chinese-inspired chicken wings (...

(Belated) Happy Year of the Dragon! How about some 乾炒牛河? This was the very first dish I had in a Chinese restaurant, and I both adore it ...

A friend gave me some beautifully inky " Fobidden Rice " earlier this year, and I was quite thrilled, because I had been wanting ...

There is an art to the stir fry, and it's one that has taken me a long time to learn. Most of the principles seemed pretty simple - cut ...