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Recipes that include bean curd sheets

Vegetarian Yellow Sparrow

Wednesday, August 11, 2010

Soo Hwang Chue sounds a little better in Chinese than it does translated into Vegetarian Yellow Sparrow, and like the Lion’s Head Casserole, these don’t really look like birds. Naming issues aside, it’s a fabulous dish. It takes a little prep work and a bit of finesse, so it’s one of those dishes that you want to make for your special vegetarian friend to show them that you went the extra bit for them. It’s full of so many nutritious ingredients like shitake mushrooms, black fungus, and lily buds, all considered to have medicinal properties to enrich good health. The edamame, dry bean curd, and  bean curd sheets round-out this dish with an abundant source of protein. In my opinion, this is the perfect vegetarian dish.

Vegetarian Yellow Sparrow

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Chinese Chicken Roll

Wednesday, August 4, 2010

Some Chinese dishes are so well known that there’s already an accepted English name for them. It certainly minimizes confusion when all the restaurants use the same name on their menu. We have no doubt what Hot & Sour Soup is. We recognize the word wontons and Ma Po Tofu signals heat to us.  For every widely known Chinese dish, there’s at least 5 that have not met with such fame and fortune. I don’t read much Chinese so even I get confused when reading the English translations on menus.

It always causes me to think about naming when I write these recipe posts. Sometimes, like this time, I really didn’t know what to call this dish. In Chinese, it’s called Jee Jwen, which translates to Chicken Roll.

Chinese Chicken Roll 6

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Vegetarian Fish

Tuesday, August 25, 2009

I hope you made the Cold Noodles with Peanut Sauce yesterday and have left-over sauce, because that wonderful peanut sauce is also used for this dish, Vegetarian Fish. It’s another perfect summer time food because it is served cold or at room temperature. The mung bean sprouts are crunchy and refreshing, held together by the light and thin bean curd sheets.

Vegetarian Fish 3

I’m not entirely sold on the name Vegetarian Fish but that’s just the literal translation from Chinese. Vegetarian Fish (and another one called Vegetarian Duck that I will post too) is basically a filling wrapped in bean curd sheets. It has nothing to do with fish at all and is truly vegetarian.

Having never cooked with bean curd sheets before (but eaten it countless times), I was shocked at how incredibly easy it us to use. I stood there with my mouth gaping open as my mom assembled this dish, 1, 2, 3…Why had I waited so long to use bean curd sheets? I love the way it tastes too. Imagine taking tofu, which I adore, and making it into the thinnest of crepes, with amazing elasticity, so that you can wrap anything inside. It’s a blessing!

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