Cooking Tips

Easy to follow step-by-step tutorial on how to wrap Shanghai soup dumplings (Xiao Long Bao 小笼包), featuring homemade dumpling wrappers.

Homemade Chinese Bun Wrappers for yummy fluffy Chinese Buns. You can either use a rolling pin or a stand mixer {pasta machine}.

Sheng Jian Mantou {生煎馒头} is a traditional Huai Yang style pan-fried pork buns featuring dumpling size round buns filled with tasty pork fillings. Learn to wrap Sheng Jian Mantou in …

How to wrap wontons classic way at home to make super healthy and delicious wontons at home? Learn easy three steps

Homemade sweet rice mini-balls (xiao yuan zi 小圆子) made of water-milled sweet rice flour are so soft, chewy, and such melt-in-your yumminess. They make perfect red bean mochi soup.

Egg wrappers made of 100% egg are for making traditional Huai Yang style egg dumplings with pork fillings, or Dan Jiao (蛋饺) in Chinese.

Roast sesame seeds over the stovetop using a wok is truly easy and quick. Takes about 5 minutes. A great way to enjoy this ancient superfood.

Roasted grains such as barley, rice and wheat via stovetop using wok is easy, direct and energy efficient. An old-fashioned method used since ancient time.

Steaming all-purpose flour for 10 minutes and turning them into homemade cake flour is an old-fashioned trick popular in China in old days.

Basic sage pesto made of fresh sage, organic virgin olive oil and a bit of Himalayan pink salt is an excellent way of preserving sage.