food & things with Christy Wang
I’m not a big meal prep person in the sense that I don’t often make full meals in advance. I do ingredient prep though — which often means blanching veggies and soft-boiling eggs to have on hand for meals during the week. Sometimes this just …
A few weekends ago, I finally ate at Udon Mugizo in San Francisco and tried their creamy mentai udon and omg, I was mindblown by how good it was!! I immediately knew I had to try to recreate and in all humility.. I think I …
I’ve been living in lisbon the last few weeks, which means my condiment selection has been much sparser than usual but I’ve loved how just a few ingredients can come together to make something delicious! I’m thinking I might eventually just do one post with …
I love the simplicity of these noodles and they’re SO good. I’ve been loving the soy-butter-mushroom combination recently and a little miso gives it more complexity. It’s a riff on Japanese Wafu Shoyu-Butter Mushroom pasta. Wafu pastas are Japanese-style pastas such as creamy mentaiko spaghetti, ketchup …
So first of all, I feel like everyone needs to know about preserved mustard stems (Zha Cai), these savory, tasty little bits of vegetables are typically sold in packets for ~$1 or less at asian grocery stores (my dad likes to talk about when you …
I love HK-style crispy chow mein with gravy, and recently made this simple at-home version that uses baked chow mein instead of the standard pan-fry. I drew inspiration from Hetty McKinnon‘s sheet pan chow mein which popped up on my feed a few months ago …