Amazing how the universe heard me! I’ve wanted to be in a documentary and journalist, Lei Huang came out of nowhere. Honored to be part of her Master thesis, Taste of Home, about how food help people build home when they are far away from home.
Watch it and I would love to hear your feedback in comments below.
Proud of Lei, coming up with concept and following through. I think she’ll be a fantastic documentary filmmaker and storyteller! She captured the essence of how food is a great connector when we leave home, whether it’s giving cooking classes, cooking together or eating out!
She also made a nice little video when she was shooting me make Easy, Yummy Singapore Noodles Video, you can view it here. So, of course I had to do a blog, Easy to Make Singapore Noodles!with step by step, hope you’ll try it, so good! So happy to attend Lei’s Commencement and now we are friends for life!Thanks Lei and Mariana for making me look good, ha, ha!
Journalism graduate, Lei Huang produced this video of my Singapore Noodles when she was working on her documentary for her Master thesis project. I was honored to be a part of her short documentary, “Taste of Home”about how food help people build home when they are far away from home.
You can also get a step by step how to make my delicious Singapore Noodles here.
Journalism graduate, Lei Huang produced this video of my Singapore Noodles when she was working on her documentary for her Master thesis project. I was honored to be a part of her short documentary, “Taste of Home”about how food help people build home when they are far away from home.
You can also get a step by step how to make my delicious Singapore Noodles here.
Here’s my first Facebook Live Wok Star Cooking Challenge with Nina Malavia, talented Social Media Maven and ex-pastry chef.
She wokked up a dish using surprise ingredients I presented without using any recipes or measuring any ingredients, just like how she learned in my cooking class.
I hope to showcase more Wok Stars and want you to share your ethnic dish or something unusual you make in your wok. If you have my Wok Star Kit Bundle (cast iron wok and gas stove setup), click the contact tab at the top and let’s collaborate.
Look forward to hearing from you. See what Nina wokked up…
Six reasons why your cast iron wok gets smoky and how to tame it! I’m only referring to the lightweight cast iron woks that folks have purchased from me, so you’ll know what to do. No cause for alarm. Here are possible reasons why smoking can happen…
1. fermented ingredients like tamari when it touches the wok and caramelizes
2. anything that’s sweet like onions can caramelize
3. any food particles that are stuck to your wok if not washed properly
4. if you use oil that can’t handle high smoke point (another post to discuss oils) but coconut oil is one that is supposed to handle high heat but can get smoky, turn it down a bit!
5. if you use a wok whose material is not a good conductor of heat
6. if you use teflon (NEVER, EVER, EVER, EVER use on high heat! I’ll post something about this horrible material in another post!) I only took this photo to show what a smoky wok looks like. That’s coconut oil which is supposed to handle high heat but I would turn down your heat a bit!
When nos.1-3 happens, they caramelize and or harden and forms a crust. If you don’t scrub off properly and cook with the crust stuck to your wok, it will make your wok smoky and it will form a thicker and thicker crust. This makes it difficult for the heat to reach your food. So, please scrub off any hardened crusts completely. Dry off with paper towels and then just zing on your stove on medium heat to dry off completely.
Check out my short 2:34 minutevideo that shows you exactly how to clean the crust and restore your cast iron wok! It’s easy and takes a few minutes. Please do it so you’ll have a superb experience when cooking.
For no.4) I’ll be posting oils good for high heat cooking and their temperature chart soon.
I hope this helps, let me know in comments if you have any questions, had other smoky incidents or zing me an email.
