Many Asian dishes use tofu, even desserts. Douhua is a Chinese savory dessert made with tender tofu. This is a fast and easy way to prepare douhua tofu pudding with ginger syrup. All you will need is a box of pre-prepared tofu mix, water, brown sugar, and some ginger.
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Bitter melon is a common vegetable used in Vietnamese cuisine for a variety of dishes, including soups and stir fry recipes. This bitter melon recipe is stir-fried with eggs, shrimp, and bean thread noodles.
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Jello mooncakes are an alternative to the traditional Mid-Autumn Festival mooncakes. These jello mooncakes use coconut cream as the outer layer and taro and green tea as the inner filling.
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This dipping sauce for seafood and steamed chicken is extremely easy to make and only requires six ingredients. You can make smaller batches at a time, or you can make a lot and save for later.
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Baked lobster tail with onion butter is one of those “fancy foods” that actually take very little time and effort to prepare. What makes this baked lobster tail recipe a Vietnamese one is not the lobster itself. But rather, the dipping sauce.
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Chili garlic sauce is a must-have in most Asian restaurants and home kitchens. There are only five ingredients for this homemade chili garlic sauce recipe. It’ll taste just the same (if not better) than store-bought chili garlic sauce without the added preservatives.
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Vietnamese cold chicken with sticky rice and papaya salad is not just a single dish. All three dish in this meal comes from different parts of Asia.
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Fruits are considered desserts after a meal in Viet Nam, and Vietnamese green mango with sweet fish sauce is a common and popular dessert.
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Squash soups are perfect for the Autumn season. Kabocha squash is one of my favorite squash soups because it can be eaten without peeling off the skin.
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Vietnamese seafood stir fry noodles are my quick and easy go-to when there’s “nothing to eat.” Just some seafood, choy sum, and Top Ramen noodles from Costco.
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Limeade is Viet Nam’s equivalent of lemonade. Like its American counterpart, limeade is a great drink for a hot summer’s day.
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Inspired by salsa, this seafood salad combines many ingredients tried together with a sweet and spicy sesame seed dressing.