Make your own dumpling pastry 水餃皮 for Chinese dumplings
Why buy frozen dumpling pastry when it’s easy and cheap – and better – to make your own? Joanne found this pastry to be very easy to use to make Pork Dumplings (jen jeow – sway jeow), Taiwanese street food 台灣口味豬肉水餃. As it was fresh it was soft and easy to shape and didn’t need...
Going to the fruit, vegetable and plants auction – Spalding Auction
Since we have moved to this area known as “South Holland” which is on the South Lincolnshire / Cambridgeshire border we have been looking for auctions for supplies for the garden and also good vegetables. When we lived in Warrington there were auctions in Knutsford / Chelford to go to; they sold vegetables, plants and...
Spring is here – grow your own vegetables! 春天來了
春天來了-種植自己的蔬菜！Previously we talked about Taiwanese greens and vegetables and where is best to buy them. Vegetables are very important to Taiwanese cooking and also great for your health. Today I am going to talk about another way to get some hard-to-find vegetables for your cooking. “Grow your own.” Spring seems to have arrived here in...
How to find Taiwanese favourite vegetables in the UK 在英國如何找到喜歡的台灣蔬菜
在英國如何找到喜歡的台灣蔬菜 If you go to most of the UK’s big name supermarkets there aren’t so many of the vegetables that you have loved in your food from being brought up in Taiwan. So where do you go to find your favourite vegetables? And what are the best places to buy Chinese vegetables in the UK?...
