Five spice pork :

Char siu pork with homemade marinade

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Char siu is one of my favourite meals. It can be eaten in so many ways. My personal favourite is with chinese pancakes, slices of cucumber and spring onion. Spread the pancake with hoisin sauce (boiled up leftover marinade) add a little[...]

Crockpot Sweet and Spicy Asian Pork Shoulder

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This recipe rocks! Just throw a few ingredients in the crockpot, let it cook for 4-8 hours (depending on low or high setting) and you’ve got a flavorful meal with very little effort. The super-tender pork is flavored with five-spice, soy[...]

It was a Hot-Pot Party!!!

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There are lots of things to celebrate : mid-autumn festival, end of toughest interview week, smooth transition into the new semester, AND, a product review opportunity from CSN store, again!. Check out their new “ Ottoman Coffee Table[...]

A Celebration and What's for Dinner Tonight

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In two weeks, it will be the blog-iversary of Mignardise. What? You never heard that word before? It means I'll have been writing this lovely little blog for a whole year. What should we do to celebrate? I have a few ideas... Subscribe and/or[...]

Too much to say and too few words to say it

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B eing busy has its advantages and it has its disadvantages as well. I can only think of the disadvantages, though, when I am set on complaining. For me one of the greatest catch 22's of the advantage/disadvantage conundrum is how it triggers[...]

Caramelised pork with five-spice broth

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There is something about Asian food that heightens the senses, walking down Williams St in Northbridge or any other area where there is a high density of Asian peoples and restaurants, gets the old tastebuds going and has my mouth watering.  The[...]

Five spice, peanut and pork zhongzi ???????

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I nearly missed the correct date for Duan Wu Jet ???. I knew it's the 16th but my silly head keep thinking it's Thursday instead of Wednesday today.I made another batch of zhongzi last night, this time is savoury with ground roasted peanuts and pork[...]

Chinese Five Spice Braised Pork Belly with Lotus Root and Steamed Yucca

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My earliest food memory as a child would have to be my mother’s braised pork shoulder otherwise known in Chinese as “Hong Sao Rou — here the centerpiece for a feast is turkey, at my home it was the almighty braised pork shoulder. [...]

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Whew, this has been a week of tight work deadlines for me, all in preparation for an expo that my company puts together in Indonesia every year. This year's show is in two weeks so I'll be working pretty much non-stop up to that[...]