Shrimp Dumplings

| April 3, 2009

It’s Friday, thank goodness!  You know what that means, a meatless recipe is coming up.  Just two more meatless Fridays, that’s today and next. We can do this!  Actually, I haven’t really been eating meat for the duration of Lent, except for a teeny weeny taste while I’m cooking.  So come Easter, I am going [...]

Steamed Dumplings

| March 24, 2009

We used to buy a lot of frozen dimsum (siu-mai, siopao and dumplings).  Since the first time I tried my hands on making homemade siomai (shu-mai), there was just no going back go frozen ones, except for siopao (steamed pork buns), which we now just buy occasionally…and which I hope to make from scratch real [...]

Homemade Shrimp and Pork Siomai

| November 19, 2008

As promised just two posts down, I’m posting the recipe  for the Homemade Shrimp and Pork Siomai that I made the other day.  I got it from here. Making these siomai from scratch was another first for me, not counting the time we made dumplings for a soup (Molo Soup) during Home Economics class in [...]

WW #29: Steamed Buns with Roast Pork Filling

| October 8, 2008

We bought two different brands of steamed buns the last time we went to the Asian store: one was our usual brand and the other, a brand we were trying for the first time. This is the new brand… It is slightly bigger than the ones we always buy.   Four pieces of our usual brand [...]