Food from different cultures

Chongqing Ice tangyuan Author: jiangmin Hi, everyone, i f you have read my previous blogs, you will find Chongqing Hotpot and noodles are very spicy, I know in Sydney, a lot of people do not like spicy food, so today, I will introduce one sweet dessert that you might enjoy. Firstly, look at the beautiful picture that I find online, in my city, we called this ice tangyuan which is simple to cook. Then, let's learn how to cook this yummy dessert at home!!!    →Simple and Cheap← Ingredient: 50g brown sugar, 100g glutinous rice flour, 500g water (depend on the eater-absorbing quality for your glutinous rice flour), fermented glutinous rice (optional), ice water. The ingredient are super easy to prepare, all the ingredient can buy from any Chinese supermarket. Steps: Put all brown sugar into boiled water and mix well, then put the brown sugar water into refrigeration until it freeze.  Put the glutinous rice flour and water together and kne...

Hi again! It's Britney introducing you to NorthEastern Chinese cuisine. One of the most popular dishes from this cuisine is called di san xian (roughly translated to "three delights from the earth"). It may seem these translations sound too corny but it truly is that good!   This is comprised of three main ingredients: potatoes, eggplant and green capsicum. (what is there to not like about potatoes 😀) It's a golden stir-fry infused with flavours of garlic, vinegar and a sweet brown sauce.  This is a classic dish that is a must-try when you visit your next NorthEast restaurant.  As for a recommendation, I would still recommend eating at Hong Fu, they make the best representation of di san xian in my opinion!  Reference:  https://www.blog.thatsmandarin.com/5-top-dishes-to-order-at-dongbei-restaurants/ Image: https://thewoksoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/di-san-xian-7.jpg

Bakso Bakso or baso is how we call meatball in Indonesia. This is one of the most common street food that you can find if you are traveling to Indonesia. Each region have their own style of making their meatball, that's why in Indonesia you can find a lot of variations tastes of meatball with different textures, sounds interesting isn't it?  Besides the textures and tastes. There are also a lot of different types of meatball that you can commonly find in Indonesia, which I will mentioned some below.   They sometimes serve meatball with tofu and sliced beef as an extra toppings. They also put some veggies and bean sprouts. Some people having it with noodles, vermicelli, or rice noodle. I will show you different types of meatball from different areas in Indonesia.  This is from Pontianak, or normally called as "bakso Pontianak" This one is from Solo, so we called it "bakso solo"  Lately, people present bakso in different way. They add egg o...

For today's topic, I want to Introduce Japanese Ramen. Ramen is a Japanese traditional dishes which means pulled noodles by translation. Ramen is made by Chinese wheat noodles with different kinds of meat and usually flavored with soy sauce or miso. Nearly every region in japan has their own type of ramen, such as the tonkotsu (pork bone broth) ramen of Kyushu and the miso ramen of Hokkaido. If you go to japan, you will find out there are so many ラーメン屋 (ramen restaurant). you can order your ramen from a vending machine, once you paid, you will get a ramen ticket, then you need to pass it to the chef and wait for your ramen. I thought it is very interesting when I order ramen by a vending machine for the first time. For my favourite ramen restaurant in Sydney, I want recommend Ippudo, it located outside of Macquarie shopping center, beside the Starbucks. image 1 reference image 2 reference

Chongqing Noodle-Chapter 2 Author: jiangmin Hi, everyone, do you enjoy my first blog which is about Chongqing hotpot? In today's blog, I will introduce Chongqing noodle to you. Hope you can enjoy as well. If you have been to Macquarie shopping centre before, you must notice there is one restaurant named ZHAOZAIER SICHUN NOODLE which is just near the boost which is the most popular juice in Australia. You can eat Chongqing noodle in this restaurant which is very delicious. Or just follow me to learn how to cook at home for authentic Chongqing noodle. Firstly, the most important part for cooking Chongqing noodle is to choose a good capsicol, to make capsicol is very complicated, so I will recommended some capsicol which is also good and we can buy from chinese supermarket directly in Sydney. Ingredient:  0.5 spoon light soy sauce, 0.3 spoon sesame oil, 2 spoon vinegar, 1 spoon capsicol, 1 teaspoon chicken powder, 2g paprika powder, 1 teaspoon table salt. ...

Hey! This is Britney showing you delicious dishes from NorthEast China! So, you have probably heard of sweet and sour pork. A staple in Chinese fast food dish. Well, let me introduce to you Dragon Fish, which is basically sweet and sour fish. You would find this dish at a NorthEast Chinese restaurant.  To describe the dish, it is a battered deep-fried whole fish that is deboned and cut into pieces that are still attached to the fish. This way, it is easier to pick out the fish. It is covered in a thick sweet and tangy sauce, typically the same sauce you would have in sweet and sour pork. It's crispy on the outside, soft and tender on the inside.  If you want to try this out in Sydney, I strongly recommend Hong Fu Northern East Chinese Restaurant at Parramatta. They're known for their authentic foods with a wide variety of choices! (p.s. don't expect top-notch customer service but I can assure you that they have the best tasting dishes. That is what Chinese cul...

Traditional Hotpot in Chongqing Author: jiangmin zhu Hi, everyone, I am jiangmin zhu. I am a native Chongqing person. In my following four blogs, I will introduce four traditional Chongqing food to you. Hope you can enjoy them. Sydney is a multicultural city, in Sydney you can eat this traditional hotpot as well, but it is very expensive if you want to eat outside, so let's find another way to enjoy this delicious food. The picture below is my roommates and I eat hotpot at our house, looks like very yummy, right? If you want to try this traditional hotpot, just keep reading!!! Eat hotpot at home, just follow these steps: Buy one hotpot seasoning in any Chinese supermarket. Buy whatever food you like and can be cooked, such as potato, tomato, beef, chicken, tofu etc. Put the hotpot seasoning into boiled water.  When water boiled again, put the food you prepared before into the pot, and when the food cook properly, you can enjoy then. Ti...

Satay Today I am going to introduce you to one of the most well known Indonesian food called Satay, or known as Sate in Indonesian language. Satay is basically a skewered meat. In Indonesia, there are a lot of different types of Satay, which I will introduce some to you today.  1. Chicken Satay For the first one here, I am going to introduce you to Chicken Satay. This type of satay is the most common one. For chicken satay they serve it with peanut sauce and chili as a topping. 2. Lamb Satay  For the second one here, we have Lamb satay. Different from chicken satay, instead of using peanut sauce, they use sweet soy sauce and add some shallot as a topping.  3. Pork Satay Last but not least, I am going to introduce Pork Satay. This is my favorite one. Different from two others, pork satay normally served without sauce, and give you some salt and chili as an extra toppings. One of my favorite pork satay is in Bali, I really recommend you to try it, it is ...

Hello, Everyone I'm Lin, For today's blog, I will introduce a japanese traditional food - sushi to you.                                     Sushi are very popular nowadays, In Macquarie Shopping center, there are many sushi restaurants, There is also one shop located in Macquarie University.  Sushi is a Japanese dish of prepared vinegared rice with some sugar and salt, accompanying a variety of ingredients. For example, seafood, vegetable, and some fruits like avocado (Which is my favorite flavor) In a rotation sushi restaurant, you can order your sushi or just grab the sushi you want from the conveyor, making sushi is very quick, so you don't need to wait a long time for your dishes. One more thing is some people may get confused with sushi and sashimi, sushi is usually with rice, but sashimi is consisting of fresh raw fish or meat sliced into thin pieces and often eat with soy sauce. ...

Hello, Everyone This blog is an introduction for our group members as well as briefly main topic in following blogs during the next few weeks. We will talk about some foods which come from different countries. Different cultures may have their own cooking style, unique tastes for foods. There are four members in our team: Seven, Callista, Britney and Lin Seven(from ChongQing,China): She will introduce the culture of Chongqing's food.Chongqing is a city located in the middle part of China. In ChongQing, people like spicy food and they will use lots of chili for cooking. During the following weeks, she will talk about how to cook traditional Chongqing food as well as show us how delicious the food is. Callista (from Indonesia ) : As same as ChongQing, Indonesian food is known for their special spices and Indonesian love spicy foods as well. she will introduce some Indonesian traditional food. Britney(from China): Her family is from Northeast China, the cuisine is v...