If you go into 5 different Taiwanese restaurants and ordered their Black Bean Noodle (called zha jiang mian in Mandarin), chances are you will receive 5 different variations of this one dish! The Black Bean Noodle recipe, like most other Chinese recipes, really depends on the restaurant or family and what their preferences are! Some places [...]
The marriage of bacon and maple. I've always seen bacon and maple donuts as well as bacon and maple cupcakes, but haven't seen very much of them on a cookie. For work this week, we are hosting an event in which the theme for the night is bacon. I was asked to make a small [...]
While I was in Taiwan, my aunt taught me how to make beef noodle soup. There are so many different variations out there, but to determine if the dish is good or not, there are two things people look at: the beef, and the broth. Is the flavor there? The color and the depth? Is [...]
The Kitchen Harvest 