food & things with Christy Wang
This might be the best noodle dish i’ve made lately!! I’ve been on a biiiigg mapo tofu kick lately (like eating it every day of the week kinda big). And with tomato season being at its semi-peak, I felt like the spicy umami flavors of …
Jjamppong is my all-time favorite korean-chinese food and a dish that does NOT get enough recognition!! For this at-home version, I’m using a mixed medley of frozen seafood but tbh this would be EVEN better if you were using an assortment of shell-on mussels, head-on …
I feel like I’ve been enviously watching everyone else eat tomatoes on ig for the last 2 months and it’s finally my turn!! We had a colder than usual winter so I didn’t even see tomatoes at the farmer’s market until august?? This might just …
I’m a day-one cheung fun stan but my childhood exposure to them was always the shrimp and/or pork-filled cheung fun you get at dim sum. A few years ago I had peanut-hoisin rice noodle rolls at a HK-style cafe and I was obsessed with the …
In elementary school, my friend’s mom would bring spam musubis to every potluck; they were the ooonnllyy thing I cared about. I remember being so bummed the one time she was away for work and didn’t bring them in lol. Nowadays, I know that I …
A random memory popped up a couple of months ago — I was having dinner with my grandparents and my grandpa had brought out a pork dish that was served in a pumpkin. My parents and aunt suggested it might be ‘fenzhenrou’ when I brought …