Dinner 2026

[Honkman]

Steamed Pork Belly with Pickled Mustard Greens from “Phoenix Claws and Jade Trees” and Stir-Fried Water Spinach with Chile and Sichuan Pepper from “Land of Plenty” - pork belly is first parcooked in water, marinated with dark soy sauce and then the skin quickly deep fried. Afterwards, the sliced pork belly is steamed with meigan cai, garlic cloves, cooking wine, dark and regular soy sauce and sugar. The sauce is thickened at the end with tapioca starch.

Ong choy is stir-fried with dried chilies and szechuan peppercorns and finished with toasted sesame oil. Served over rice

[rotuts]

Bean w Bacon soup .  Some sauted chorizo ( generic , USA ) 

 

 

knob of butter .  window green onions.

 

favorite soup .  found they carry lower salt version , and its on sale this week !

[patti]

Pot roast with mashed cauliflower and roast gravy.

 

 

 

[Paul Bacino]

( Hong Shao Rou )  Shanghai Style braised pork--from Woks of Life---I add shitake mushrooms too

 

 

 

My Shaoxing Wine

 

 

 

[rotuts]

@Paul Bacino

 

hopefully no added salt in that wine.

[Paul Bacino]

Finally back from our Australia/ new Zealand trip--i get to cut into this 35 day dry aged prime rib covered in wagyu fat

 

Thank u @haresfur and @sartoric--for your tips - we did a few excursions but trip was for a wedding.. Queenstwon was awesome btw

 

 

 

Edited 6 hours ago by Paul Bacino (log)

[liuzhou]

1 hour ago, Paul Bacino said:

( Hong Shao Rou )  Shanghai Style braised pork--from Woks of Life---I add shitake mushrooms too

 

 

 

My Shaoxing Wine

 

 

 

 

Doew the bottle give any indicaton of where that "Shaoxing" wine is made? I've never seen anything like that and their website gives no information.

 

I do see from your bottle that it's salted. Never a good sign.

 

 

[rotuts]

@Paul Bacino

 

now that the Food Pyramid  ' has be righted  [ sic ] '

 

Id love to dig into a couple of those steaks .

 

Just two.   Get back to an even keel , before the ship sinks.

Edited 6 hours ago by rotuts (log)

[Paul Bacino]

2 hours ago, liuzhou said:

 

Doew the bottle give any indicaton of where that "Shaoxing" wine is made? I've never seen anything like that and their website gives no information.

 

I do see from your bottle that it's salted. Never a good sign.

 

 

I knew i'd get  some expert advise...so what do i buy correctly?

[KennethT]

1 hour ago, Paul Bacino said:

I knew i'd get  some expert advise...so what do i buy correctly?

The Shaoxing that is unsalted will only be found in a liquor store.  Pretty much any of them found there will suit your purpose.  I'll try to take a photo of mine when I get home tonight....  it's perfectly adequate...

Edited 2 hours ago by KennethT (log)

[KennethT]

@Paul Bacino I should have said that in NY State,  an unsalted Shaoxing will only be found in a liquor store since our grocery stores aren't allowed to sell anything with a higher ABV than beer...  anything higher needs to be salted so that it is not drinkable... your state may be different and allow normal wines/spirits to be sold in grocery stores.

[rotuts]

@Paul Bacino

 

I got my bottle in Chinatown BOS  some time ago .  still good.

 

little English was spoken , but , they pointed out to me the selection

 

and i got the most expensive :  $ 7.00    its very nice for so many dishes,

 

oddly , or not so oddly , Total Wine does not carry the win.

 

so look to ChinaTown -ish.

[liamsaunt]

Hot honey and mustard chicken with sweet potato purée and roasted broccoli

 

[liuzhou]

2 hours ago, Paul Bacino said:

I knew i'd get  some expert advise...so what do i buy correctly?

 

I didn't mean to suggest that you did something incorrectly. I don't know exactly what you bought. Although, looking it up I found on Amazon that it contains caramel which is another bad sign. 

 

Going by Amazon's price, I'd say you could probably find something better for very little more.

 

Anyway, perhaps this discussion would be better in the Shaoxing Wine topic.