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How blogs can help you be a Wok Star!

June 3, 2014 By Eleanor Hoh 47 Comments

One of the things I’ve always struggled with is providing content to support my customers who are new Wok Stars and reach potential Wok Stars! For some reason, I always thought I should be blogging about just food and provide my customers with lots of meal ideas because I don’t teach ‘recipes’.

Well, these thoughts were banished when I watched Creative Live’s Build a Successful Creative Blog with April Bowles-Olin!
The biggest takeaway from April’s course was…
Blog about the topic you are an expert in, that’s what your audience want and expect from you.
April helped me open my eyes to blogging more than just about cooking in a wok but to focus on solutions why folks have not succeeded in wok cooking or offering tips how to succeed in wok cooking through reading my blogs!
Crafting titles to attract the right audience is the most important element to blogging, and this is something I must learn and fast!

OBGYN, Dr. Eric woks on top of his electric stove

I love helping people solve problems, so after April’s course, I posted a blog describing how folks who’ve used the wrong wok and stove were never successful until they bought my Kit and Stove and are now Cast Iron Wok Converts!
Providing tips for Easy Wok Dinner and eating healthier is also a popular topic!
Sharing tips about woks
Dispelling misinformation by so called ‘experts’, a subject that irks me something rotten and itching to blog about!
and the list goes on and on.
My problem has always been how to manage all this because it’s overwhelming. April provided us with a clear procedure. It’s what I teach people about wok cooking and should apply to myself! Thank you so much April.
And when I flounder with blogging topics, I have to keep reminding myself that when I provide content that helps people make decisions, they become your avid fans!
Buyers always tell me that the content and solutions I provide were what helped them decide to buy from me. Now, if I can entice more folks to visit my blog, I believe they will understand a little more that what I provide in my Wok Star Kit Bundle will help them be successful Wok Stars!

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My Wok Star Kit Bundle with everything to help you succeed: right wok, gas stove, good knife and seasonings!

I’ll leave you with some very touching comments from Wok Stars!…
“Wonderful website…Brilliant business plan, instructional approach (Zen easy-style)…my dear EH…I am profoundly impressed by your digital entrepreneurship and the intelligence of your website!!! I am SO happy to have found you…” Ralph A.
“I like your style of wok cooking because it has a healthy fresh spin on cooking.
Also you make it fun and easy! I will also join your newsletter and be one of your Wok Stars! Thanks,” Billy
“Wok so much…can’t tell you enough how much you have changed my eating habits and inspired so much enjoyment for cooking. :)” Dr. Eric, busy OBGYN
“I picked you as your site was the most informed and you actually know what you’re talking about. I found your site personalized and friendly as well as smart. Most sites I’ve visited I found were rubbish, no idea what they were talking about and obviously don’t use woks and or don’t believe in what they are selling.” Kind regards, Julia
“Without the knowledge you’ve shared on your site, I would’ve spent a lot of money just to get poor results because my existing equipment is inadequate.” Brian
“I felt that when I saw your Youtube clips and reading your website. I can see your passion in what you’re doing as that was very obvious…you are the only one that took the time and effort to put everything together and at it’s most simplest and easiest form of understanding. So–TO ME—that is GOLD, my dear!!…YOU stand out and sets YOU far above the others when someone is really serious about eating healthy and looking at wok cooking to assist them in their journey. So–Don’t Stop What You’re Doing!! You are the WOK STAR in my book!!” Holly
“With your kit and the butane stove, we’ve got the perfect setup now. I just wish I hadn’t wasted all that money before finding your kit and stove!” Thanks so much!” Joe & Cristina
“Your kit is thoughtfully put together, with the selling points for me being the organization and ease. I am looking to eat healthier and have fun, I think you made that happen for me.” Daniel
“I love that you take the time to explain why you are so insistent about recommending a very specific product. In general, I respond to real people who are passionate about what they do. When I saw your website, I knew I wanted to support you.” Nathan

This post is a part of the “What ‪#‎BelleLive‬ Taught Me” blog tour. In order to continue your journey, visit Kris Windley’s, Blogging is a Team Sport: How to Build Community Online – and Why You Have to
and Laura Kuenzig’s, Done is better than perfect
or for a full list of participants please visit Jo Cavagnis, It’s All About You

Mangoes for Mother's Day!

May 9, 2014 By Eleanor Hoh 6 Comments

I can hardly believe it’s 2 years since my mom passed away, so for Mother’s Day, I’m celebrating her life with mangoes, one of her favorite fruit and mine! Eaten on its own or in a salad or salsa, the creamy, smooth champagne mangoes are divine. Mangoes always conjure up sweet memories of my childhood growing up in Hong Kong. My favorite mangoes were the tiny ones you can pop into your mouth in one bite! Another memory was of my mom showing us how to cut the mango along the seed and cubing it inside its skin, then pushing the skin from below so the juicy cubes magically popped up ready for us to enjoy without getting our hands all sticky. I love showing this trick to my friends who’ve never seen it done before!

What I’d like to remember my mom for are 2 essentials she taught me which have helped me tremendously in my daily life, thanks mom!

1) Her “little bit of this and little bit of that” approach gave me permission to stray outside ‘recipes’ and I loved her for it. I didn’t understand how significant this approach was till I started teaching cooking myself. It opens up a whole new world of exciting surprises when you don’t have to follow a rigid recipe.

2) The way you do anything in the kitchen applies to everything you do in life i.e. put your whole focus into what you’re doing and do it well! It’s this ‘focus’ that’s motivated me in everything I do from small to large projects.
My three sisters and I are very different but we all inherited a bit of her and we’re proud of it. She’s definitely left her stamp on all who were lucky to have met her!

Happy Mother’s Day to all the moms out there!

Mango, Kale Salad

I dreamed up mango and kale salad by finding both at discounted prices from my local farmers’ market. How I come up with my dishes is by seeing what’s fresh and seasonal! Though I confess I overdid it with buying a whole case of 14 mangoes! It was a race to eat them pretty quickly because they started ripening. So, that’s how I ended up making a mango salsa with other vegetables left over from my cooking class.

The sweetness of mango in contrast with the slightly tangy flavor of kale complemented each other very well. Because raw kale can be pretty hard to digest, ‘marinading’ with my homemade vinaigrette did wonders, they became soft and tender as if they were cooked and only for as little as half an hour before I tossed them with the rest of the fixings. So easy and what a delightful change, they brought a more crunchy texture compared with the usual field greens. Mango, kale salad with grilled curry pork shoulder were such a treat, I’ll definitely make this again.

Mango Salsa
Cubed jicama, tomatoes, shallots, cucumber and mango with a touch of Japanese rice vinegar, tad of salt was all I added to make this salsa. Such a versatile side, I enjoyed it in so many ways…for breakfast with fried egg, lunch with frittata or grilled sausage, with a leftover Filipino grilled pork, for a snack with brie on crackers…

Fruit Fiesta is also the theme for this month’s Let’s Lunch. Let’s Lunch is a virtual themed lunch from food bloggers all over the world! Join by posting a comment below or on Twitter using #LetsLunch. We also have a private Facebook group where we hang out, anyone can join but needs to be invited. Check back for more yummy fruit posts from my Let’s Lunch buddies!

Rejuvenating Balinese Green Apple Salad at Spicebox Travels.

Cantaloupe Pie at Tea and Scones.

Mango Refrigerator Cake at Asian in America.

Sticky Pears at Monday Morning Cooking Club.

Grapefruit Bourbon Cocktail at Glass of Fancy

Mangoes for Mother’s Day at Be a Wok Star.