Overseas Chinese Web Guide

Category: Food

  • Little Sheep Mongolian Hot Pot in Los Angeles

    I love Little Sheep Mongolian Hot Pot. So, during a visit to Southern California, I was quite excited to try the Los Angeles Little Sheep Mongolian Hot Pot. Sometimes, Chinese businesses confuse me. I’m wary of bootleg CDs, DVDs and handbags. But, bootleg restaurants? So, as I approach the restaurant, I see 小肥羊, the cute…

  • 小肥羊 Little Sheep Mongolian Hot Pot

    I returned to Little Sheep Mongolian Hot Pot last weekend. I still need a copy of their menu, but at least I took photos this time. Sunday night is hot pot night for no particular reason other than parking is free that night. This time, we ordered far less food than last time now that…

  • Happy Thanksgiving Google

    A stuffing recipe that I am attempting calls for 8 ounces of cremini mushrooms. I don’t have a kitchen scale. However, I have three packages of mushrooms. One package lists the weight in pounds and the other two weight in pounds. Instead of grabbing pencil and paper, I grabbed the iPhone: .8 lb + 8…

  • 小肥羊 Little Sheep Mongolian Hot Pot

    In general, I am a skeptic of boiled food. I have tried hot pot at many different places, both at restaurants and in the homes of friends and family, but never quite found it to my liking. So, I was in for an unexpected treat when I visited 小肥羊 Little Sheep Mongolian Hot Pot in…

  • Wei-Chuan Chinese Cookbooks

    After having some success with Wei-Chuan’s Chinese Cuisine (中国菜), I decided to pick some some of the other Wei-Chuan cookbooks to diversify, namely Chinese Snacks (點心專輯), Chinese Cuisine: Beijing Style (北京菜) and Chinese Cuisine: Shanghai Style (上海菜). I really like the bilingual cookbooks produced by Wei-Chuan. While I prefer to read through recipes in English,…

  • Flat Bottom Wok

    Lately, I’ve been running through woks. On the cheap end, the $10+ wok from 99 Ranch is okay. If it doesn’t work out, you’re only out 10 bucks. No big deal. However, the wok is really light and the non-stick surface, while decent, is not durable. The last one I had only lasted a few…

  • Restaurant Chinese

    Some colleges offer conversational Chinese. Others teach business Chinese. However, for Chinese Americans, the real deal is Restaurant Chinese. If you want to order off the Chinese menu, but can’t quite figure out a few of the characters, what do you do? At one point in time, I could only order dishes whose names I…

  • $470 Rice Cooker

    My National SR-MK18N rice cooker still works. However, the cooking insert had developed a scratch on its non-stick surface. And, as consumers of non-stick cooking products all know, today’s scratch is tomorrow’s flake. So, who used a metal utensil in my rice cooker? Anyways, Panasonic sells a replacement pan for $49 (which seems a bit…

  • Wine Library TV

    I’ve heard about Wine Library TV a while ago, but never visited the website because I’m not a wine drinker. However, I finally saw an episode tonight and found it to be absolutely entertaining and hilarious. Jim Cramer of Mad Money appears on Wine Library TV. Gary Vaynerchuk reviews “2 Buck Chuck” from Trader Joe’s.…

  • Fennel Nian Gao (年糕) with Shiitake Mushrooms

    Just had two wonderful bowls of fennel 年糕 (nian gao). Nothing you would find in a Chinese or American cookbook, at least one that I own. Basically, I had a bulb of fennel that has been sitting in the refrigerator and needed to use it up. I also had a bag of nian gao (or…