Waffle (Hong Kong Style) Recipe

Waffle is a very popular street snack sold by hawkers in Hong Kong. It has got another special name, “grid cake” (格仔餅) as it is cooked in a larger waffle mould, round in shape and divided into four quarters.

Generally Hong Kong style waffle is spread with butter, peanut butter and white sugar, then folded into a semi circle, wrapped in a paper bag. People just grab the hot waffle and eat while walking away. You have to pay before going of course. Some dessert cafés in Hong Kong would also offer different flavours, like strawberry, chocolate sauce and honey to suit different tastes.

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Beef Fillet with Mushroom and Red Wine Sauce

Although I don’t drink wine, I really love cooking with red wine. The red wine brings out all the best flavours of meat, especially with beef. To me, it was a successful experiment of cooking beef fillets topped with red wine sauce using this Cabernet Sauvignon 2000 because this dish completely pleased my whole family in 2000. Well, this red wine was a gift from a travel agent when I bought air-tickets for my family back to Hong Kong. I stored the red wine in my pantry immediately after taking from the travel agent and didn’t touch it until now.



I can’t describe how delicious this red wine sauce was. The sour taste of Balsamic vinegar cut through the beef making you feel more craving. So be cautious!

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Red Bean Mochi Recipe

This simple red bean mochi recipe was passed from my friend and tested with success many times. The chewy texture is just right with the not-so-sweet red bean fillings.

Mochi is one of our family’s favourite desserts which is a Japanese rice cake made of glutinous rice. One of the many Japanese confections such as daifuku, that is mochi stuffed with sweet fillings, like sweetened red bean paste, is very popular around the world.



You can stuff any other sweet fillings you like in mochi. No wonder mochi is widely welcome by different people with different tastes.



Its sticky texture is a challenge to handle. My good friend, Juanna, gave this mochi recipe to me. I found it’s simple and easy to follow. I tried several times. Every time my family and I were very satisfied with the results. Many thanks to her.

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Chicken and Mushroom Pie

Generally speaking, it’s pretty croweded in every restaurant on Mother’s Day, so we didn’t really want to dine out. Yet my family suggested that I should have a day off from kitchen, at least not cooking for dinner as usual. Then came an idea from my daughter. She would like to bake a chicken and mushroom pie for us. My husband said it was a nice Mother’s Day present that was better than those bought from gift shops. Thus, I didn’t need to cook, yet was quite busy around in the kitchen, giving a bit of coaching to my daughter and taking photos of her cooking. When the pie came out from the oven, I couldn’t wait to taste it. The creamy fillings and the puffy pastry made me a memorable Mother’s Day. Together with pumpkin soup and garlic bread, I was so full to take any dessert.

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Pork Fillet Adobo Recipe

Before moving to Australia, I employed a domestic helper from Philippines because my life was hectic and I felt too tired to cook any meals after busy work. Interestingly, I haven’t tried my domestic helper’s hometown cuisine. Maybe she thought that we wouldn’t be interested.



Recently, I came across this Pork Adobo that is quite popular around Southern Asia. As I am very curious about what “Adobo” means. I didn’t know the meaning of this strange word “Adobo” until I searched on the internet. Here’s the quote from Wikipedia, “Adobo is the Spanish word for seasoning or marinade. The noun form is used to describe the actual marinade or seasoning mix, and the term used for a meat which has been marinated or seasoned with an adobo is referred to having been adobada.”



This dish looks very easy and simple. So I tried to use Adobo to cook with pork chops. Our family was very satisfied with its taste. The sauce is sweet and sour in taste with authentic oriental flavour. Best served with rice.

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Red Bean Pudding Recipe

Red beans are very nutritious food. They are low in fat and calories while high in protein, fiber, and minerals. Not only do I like their nutrition, but also their tender texture. They are good ingredients for dessert, especially for Chinese steamed ones. You might find this red bean pudding in some vintage Chinese restaurants or vegetarian restaurants. The red beans inside their puddings might be less than you want though. So, do-it-yourself at home would be the best way of tasting perfect red bean pudding because you could tailor-make the pudding with the exact amount of red beans you like.



There are various types of red beans. Keep in mind that the Azuki beans are commonly used in Chinese dessert, not the (Red type) ricebeans which are the correct ones for traditional Chinese medicine.

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Shrimp, Avocado and Dragon Fruit Salad Recipe

When summer comes, salad is a very popular dish on our table. This shrimp and avocado salad is our family’s favourite one. In last summer, I added one more healthy and terrific fruit in it. Guess what? It’s dragon fruit, a very delicious and nutritious fruit. There are two varieties of dragon fruit, one with bright red flesh and the other white, both have tiny black seeds. I bought the white one this time, adding my salad a striking colour.

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