Having walked by many times, finally tried #Teochew Chinese spot Bo Ky per @RobertSietsema's recent praise.
Duck was as expected - moist, tender & flavorful, the soft skin delicious. Would like to explore more, but other items I tried were unremarkable.
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One of my traditional foods is a stuffed bun that replaces the bread with a huge tofu pocket. I haven’t had that in years and I think it will be hugely delicious for lots of people who have not tried it. It’s the teochew ‘tau kwa pau’
#Food #ChineseFood #Teochew
Inside the House of Tan Yeok Nee as Singapore opens its last Teochew mansion to the public #Singapore #Heritage #Teochew
A photo of a southern Chinese congee dish replacing rice with oats in a congee. Topped with fried garlic, scallions, chillies and a pickled radish omelette
[Food, oat and tea congee with Teochew pickled radish omelette]
I make congee using oats instead of rice sometimes. I add a black tea bag for a few minutes, and dashi. Then I fry up some ‘chai poh’ (pickled radish) omelette and that’s basically what my […]
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I just spent 10 minutes zooming into every dish and menu item from a Cambodian restaurant in Seattle to check if it was truly serving the Cambodian Teochew food that I was wanting (very similar to the Vietnamese Teochew and Singapore Teochew food I like). I think it is, but the best way to […]
I was telling a friend about the old Teochew names for Southeast Asia cities.
I wrote it down somewhere and I want to make a map of old SE Asian port names in Teochew
I did this research some time ago
- Pontianak, Kalimantan was 坤甸 (khun diang)
- Jakarta was 巴斜 (pah sia)
- Phnom Penh was […]
Photo of a hand holding 3 lunar new year red envelopes with gold foil on top all behind a background of red lanterns
Happy to get back into photography and capturing 3 whole years of red envelopes. What an evolution.
#redenvelopes #lny #lunarnewyear #tet #chinesenewyear #lixi #angbao #teochew
A photo of the sweet potato scent oolong tea leaves
A photo of the packaging from Wuyi origin. Next to it is the tea in a clear pot
A photo of the first brew of the tea
Things to keep me afloat: Wuyi Origin’s Fan Shu Xiang (sweet potato scent) oolong.
As a Chaozhou person I have a deeply held preference for Chaozhou style oolongs and this (and dancongs and ya shi) are my faves. Can I have many faves?
#Tea @tea #Chaozhou #Teochew
I was posting about my grandfather and Swatow yesterday. I wrote a little thing about him which was published in an anthology of Singapore writing.
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#TootSea #Singapore #Teochew #Swatow #Shantou #Chinese #Food
