Taiwanese Recipes for Home Cooking

We love homemade dumplings! You can make these with store bought dumpling wrappers, or you can also make your own! I'll tell you homemade dumpling wrappers are SO delicious. Here's how to make it!

Chinese Steamed Eggplant with Garlic Soy Sauce is a tasty veggie side dish that we like to make at home! It is made by steaming Chinese eggplants until it is soft and tender, then drizzling it with a flavorful sauce.

Stir Fry Lamb with Asparagus is an easy and delicious dish you can make it any night! Marinated sliced lamb stir fried with asparagus, ginger, garlic and green onions!

This Asian Pan Fried Pork Belly is so easy to make and so delicious! You can dress it up with your favorite sauce too! Here's how to make it.

If you’re looking for a unique side dish to your entrée – look no further! This easy simple Bok Choy Mushrooms Stir Fry is easy to make and makes a yummy and nutritious veggie side dish!

Chinese Chicken with Pickled Mustard Greens (aka Suan Cai) 酸菜雞丁 is often cooked at my house - it is one of my mom's favorites to cook, which is great, because it is one of my favorites to eat!

Red braised whole fish aka Hong Shao Yu, is a very common dish in Chinese and Taiwanese cuisine. It is traditionally made by cooking a whole fish with rice wine, ginger, scallions, soy sauce, and the star ingredient of chili bean paste.

This is a simple stir fry vegetable we make very often at my house - A Choy Stir Fry with Garlic. If you've never had this veggie - I recommend it!

Daikon Radish Pork Soup is a classic Chinese soup made with cubed daikon radish, pork bone broth, ginger, and garlic. It's soothing, warming, and healthy too which explains why we make it so often.

Chinese Garlic Chives Pancakes or Jiu Cai Bing (韭菜餅) is a traditional Chinese dish that can be served as a snack, appetizer, or light meal. It's actually not super hard to make either! I'll show you step by step in this post.

We almost always have a soup to go with our dinner - and this Seaweed Egg Drop Soup is an easy one that is on the rotation!

Napa Cabbage Glass Noodles is a Chinese dish with napa cabbage cooked with glass noodles, shiitake mushrooms, dried shrimp, garlic in a shiitake mushroom soy sauce!

Taiwanese Ginger Fish Soup is a light healthy and tasty soup that's also easy to make! Chunks of white fish simmered with julienned ginger and chopped green onions - so warming to the tummy!

Red Braised Chicken (or aka Red Cooked Chicken) is such a delicious chicken dish - it's made by browning chicken and then simmering with soy sauce, ginger, green onions, and more!

Shredded Meat Celery and Dried Tofu Stir Fry - The name is a mouthful but it's a popular dish in Chinese cuisine! Marinated shredded beef or pork, stir fried with dry pressed tofu (aka dougan) along with julienned celery.

Stir fry winter melon (炒冬瓜) is a an easy veggie side dish - we like to cook this veggie with dried shrimp and soy sauce. This is how we make it at home.

This Garlic Soy Sauce Chicken is so delicious - what is it? It's garlic soy sauce marinated chicken pan fried, and the drizzled with the garlic soy glaze!

This dish is one of my mom's favorites - Stir Fry Bean Sprouts and Garlic Chives. I do see why, it's tasty and I love the crunchiness of the bean sprouts and how it pairs well with the Chinese garlic chives!

Okra is such an interesting vegetable - some love it and some hate it. We are a fan! We usually cook this veggie with this recipe - by a simple Chinese Stir Fry Okra with garlic and dried chili peppers.

Red braised fish aka Hong Shao Yu, is a very common dish in Chinese and Taiwanese cuisine. It is made with rice wine, ginger, scallions, soy sauce, and the star ingredient of chili bean paste.

Have you ever had Luffa before? It's a gourd, also known as silk melon or si gua in Mandarin. Delicious and nutritious - we love to stir fry this veggie with dried shrimp!

Tender water spinach stir fried with smashed garlic and fermented tofu - I have many favorite veggies, but this is my favorite veggie dish of all times! In this post, I'm going to show you how we usually cook it - easy and delicious, and nutritious too!

There's a reason why chicken is so popular - you can make it so many ways. There are lots of delicious Chinese chicken recipes for example! Here's 20+ delicious Chinese chicken recipes to try!

Sesame Oil Kidney Noodle Soup is a traditional dish in Taiwan, especially for people trying to 'heal' and be healthier. If you're not used to organ meat, you might not ever try this dish, but if you've ever had it before you know how delicious this noodle soup can be!

This Bok Choy Shiitake Mushrooms Stir Fry is an easy veggie side dish that is also delicious! The flavor the shiitake mushrooms add to the bok choy is perfect!

We love making red braised pork belly - and sometimes we like to make modifications to it! For example, we have a family friend that has fresh bamboos in their yard, and so every year when it's bamboo shoots season - we make red braised pork belly with bamboo shoots 竹筍紅燒肉!

The amazing thing about this dish is it is insanely easy and it's also super delicious! Salmon With Green Onions, Garlic, and Soy Sauce is a great way to get some seafood in your diet, and it's a healthy meal too!

Stir Fry Clams is one of my favorite seafood dishes! We like to stir fry with Rice Wine, Soy Sauce, Basil, Ginger and Scallions - we find that too much sauce takes away the natural flavors of the clams, while basil, ginger and scallions add to it!

One of the reasons I love Chinese food so much is the variety of ingredients! Just think about the veggies - bok choy, Chinese mustard, yu choy, to name a few, and now one of my favorite veggies ever (It's #2), Sweet Potato Leaves! This Stir Fry Sweet Potato Leaves Recipe will show you how …

Taiwanese beef noodle soup is made with Red Braised Beef! You make the beef and you can eat it with rice and veggies. Then for the second meal, cook some noodles and add veggies in the soup which makes Taiwanese Style Beef Noodle Soup 台式紅燒牛肉麵!

Chinese Broccoli is a popular type of vegetable that can found in Asian cuisine. It's not hard to see why! It's a delicious veggie, and it's very easy to just stir fry with some garlic and serve as a delicious side! This recipe will show you the simplest way we like to make Chinese Broccoli …

One thing I love about Chinese food is the variety of Chinese vegetables. It's really one of the reasons I visit the Chinese and Asian super markets - you can't find a lot of the veggies at your average stores. I'm going to introduce to you some of my favorite Chinese vegetables that I cook …

If you are a fan of seafood, you should try this Pan Fried Pomfret! The pomfret is pan fried so that the skin is perfectly crispy! It's actually not hard to make either - let me show you how!

Bamboo Pork Stir Fry ( Sǔn jiān ròu sī 筍尖肉絲 ) is a yummy dish I love ordering at Chinese restaurants! As it turns out, it's also not difficult to make at home either - Here's how to make it step by step!

King Oyster Mushrooms Stir Fry with Basil is an easy way to make king oyster mushrooms that's also delicious! I love using fresh Thai Basil from my garden to make this dish extra fresh.

Luo Song Tang aka Chinese Borscht Soup is my favorite soup in the world! This soup is so rich and tasty - Beef broth based soup with chunks of beef cooked with garlic, onions, potatoes and tomatoes. The flavor is so delicious and it's also a very nutritious soup!

This Chinese Chicken Mushroom Soup (香菇雞湯) is on my rotation week after week. It's not hard to see why, the broth is insanely tasty, as the soup is made with one whole chicken, shiitake mushrooms, red dates and more!

This is the way my mom makes Chinese Sweet and Sour Spare Ribs (aka "Tang Cu Pai Gu" 糖醋排骨) ! It's a very tasty dish that goes very well with white rice. If you're looking for the American sweet and sour pork version, this is not yet, but this is just as tasty, if not …

I absolutely love adding chili oil to most things I'm cooking or eating. Sometimes it's because I love the spicy kick of it and other times it's just because it adds an additional flavor profile to the dish! Turns out it's not super hard to make chili oil at home if you prefer some homemade …

This Chinese Cucumber Salad is super refreshing and perfect when it's warm out! We make this as a side dish often, and the garlicky goodness and spicy kick to it is so delicious!