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Making Colorful Dumplings with Helen You

Helen You spent her early life in China. There, she didn’t only use wheat flour to make dumpling dough. Instead, she also used cornmeal to add extra texture. And now, she wants to show us how to put some colorful twist to our dough.
Prepare 250g of flour, 175ml of water, a pinch of salt, and 1 egg white. These will be the base ingredients for the dough.
For the coloring, Helen uses natural ingredients. Here she will show us how to add green color into the dough using spinach puree. If you want to add red color, you …

Wilson Tang’s Tips in Making Dim Sum

Wilson Tang, the current owner of the oldest Chinese restaurant in New York City, is sharing tips in his dim sum-making process. Read on to know what the master has to tell to us.
Steaming the dim sum
The most ideal tool to use here is a bamboo steamer. But if you don’t have one, you use any other steamer as an alternative. 
Even if you can’t find a single steamer in your house you can make a DIY steamer using a heat-proof plate as the steamer surface and three foil balls as the supports.

Celebrating the Art of Noodle Making with Hetty McKinnon

In her newest book, Hetty provides us with easy-to-make recipes so that you can improve your noodle-making skills at home. But we don’t want to talk deeply about her book here. Hetty wants to show us the tips to make her version of noodle, which has similar ingredients to the famous hand-pulled biang biang noodles but is handled in a much simpler way.
Use high-gluten flour
To improve the chewiness of your noodles, you should use high-gluten flour. All-purpose flour actually works just fine, but it will result in less chewiness.
The dough…

3 Tools That Should Not Be in Your Kitchen (and Their Alternatives)

From years of experience in the kitchen world, we have discovered that there are unnecessary tools that shouldn’t be in your kitchen in the first place. To know what they are and what are their alternatives, read below.
Wooden Spoon
Wooden spoon on the first position of the things-you-should-throw-away-form-your-kitchen list here for several reasons. It warps, it chips, and it will rot if you don’t keep it dry. Moreover, it absorbs aromas and flavors, making it difficult to completely remove unwanted odors when you clean it.

3 Expert Tips to Bake a Cake

It’s already your fifth attempt baking a cake and it still resulted in a miserably looking cake? Don’t give up just yet! Pay attention and see how you can improve your baking skill with three expert tips to bake a cake below.
Read the recipe thoroughly
Okay, we know you may think that we don’t have to tell you this. But, believe us when we tell you that there are still people out there who don’t pay enough attention to the recipe. Always do exactly what the recipe tells you to do, including the precise oven temperatures, how long should you bake …

Organize Your Kitchen with There 4 Brands

Having trouble keeping your kitchen looking clean and neat? Don’t be worried! With help from these brands and their functional yet nicely looking products, you will be able to achieve success in organizing your kitchen.
Open Spaces
Even though this brand is a newcomer in the industry, it starts to gain trust and popularity from the customers with its functional and chic kitchen organizing tools. Some of their popular products are drawer dividers, storage bins, and self risers. With the soft and earthy color tones, their products will totally fit in …

Llubav’s Spaghetti

If you’re not in the mood of chopping anything, then this recipe is a great option for you. Now, pick up your blender and these ingredients: 150g of baby spinach, 5 large kale leaves, 12 large basil leaves, 2 cloves of garlic, 50g of feta cheese, 2.5 tablespoons of cream cheese, 3 tablespoons of extra virgin olive oil, and, the star of the dish, 500g of store-bought spaghetti.
Start with cooking your pasta. Heat up a pot of water, add salt generously, and throw your spaghetti in.
Meanwhile, you can start making the …

Pulled Mushroom Tacos

Taco de Champinon, or more globally known as the mushroom taco is the most popularly offered taco menu for our vegetarian fellas. 
Before you start cooking, you will need oyster mushrooms, grapeseed oil, smashed garlic, dried bay leaves, lime, and smoked paprika for the pulled mushroom And, for the taco, you will also need salsa Guille, finely chopped white onion, avocado slices, thinly sliced radishes, and chopped cilantro.
Preparing the mushrooms
Start with pulling the mushrooms from the edge of the caps …

Lucky 8 Stir-Fry

This mixed veggie dish draws its inspiration from Buddhist vegetarian cuisine which may include a certain number of ingredients that represent good fortune, wealth, joy, family integrity, and long life. Whenever you feel like you are longing for a Chinese vegetarian meal, this dish can always be a great option to have. Now, let’s not wait any further, pick up your wok and get cooking! 
The ingredients you need for this dish are bean sprouts, shiitake mushrooms, stripped carrot, lily flowers, ear mushrooms, bok choy, snow peas, Shaoxing wine, and sesame oil….

Ros Omelette

Ros comes from a Hindi word for “gravy” and it contains a lovely combination of a sweet creamy taste from the coconut and a biting spice flavor from the chili. And, to satisfy your craving and curiosity, we will show you how to cook this Goa-native cuisine at the comfort of your own home.
Preparing the ros
To make ros, you will need coconut oil and paste, coarsely chopped onion (preferably the yellow one) and tomato, ginger paste, ground turmeric, Kashmiri (red chile powder works as well), garam masala, and kosher salt.