Category: Ingredients

Vegetable – Florence Fennel

I had seen this vegetables on some Western recipe sites.  So, when it appears on our supermarket shelves, I quickly grabbed a head for experimenting.  It is such a lovely looking vegetable isn’t it? The vegetable is called Florence Fennel and from what I gathered on the net, it is grown as vegetable whilst another…

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Preserved beans and black beans

# Karen commented on July 19th, 2006:^ Is Black bean paste same as taucheo or preserved bean paste? I’m from Melbourne and not sure if Lee Kum Kee sauces have any preserved bean paste… or issit similar to Black bean paste? To answer Karen’s question, I have taken photos of the two types of beans…

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Dried lotus leaves

This is a photo of dried lotus leaves which I bought from the Chinese dried seafood shop. Cost only 70 cents for two pieces. Anyone cook lotus leaves wrapped food before? Hope to hear some tips before I attempt to make lotus leave wrapped rice. The recipe books and the shopkeeper told me to soak…

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