Japanese fried chicken thigh fillets with a light ultra crisp crust coated with Chinese-style sweet sour sauce spiked with Korean chili flakes.
Cook time: 25 minutes
Servings: 3 people
Spicy sweet sour chicken karaage
Main Course
Humba
A Filipino adaptation of Chinese red-braised pork belly (hong shao rou).
Cook time: 2 hours
Servings: 6 people
20-minute chicken braised in sweet spicy sauce
Chicken thigh fillets are browned on both sides then braised in a sauce made with calamansi juice, fish sauce, honey, garlic, ginger and chilies.
Cook time: 20 minutes
Servings: 4 people
20-minute soy calamansi chicken
Inspired by the Filipino beef dish called bistek, skin-on chicken thigh fillets are lightly browned and braised in soy sauce with plenty of garlic. The cooking is concluded with the addition of onion rings and freshly-squeezed calamansi juice.
Cook time: 20 minutes
Servings: 2 people
Hanoi-style beef pho
Pho is a Vietnamese soup with rice noodles, meat and vegetables. This is beef pho recreated from a hot bowl of noodle soup I enjoyed in Hanoi.
Cook time: 3 hours 30 minutes
Servings: 4 people