Pinoy Mapo Tofu with Easy-to-Find Ingredients

Pinoy Mapo Tofu with Easy-to-Find Ingredients 2

TakeMeBackTuesday has me reminiscing about classic Chinese cooking shows from my youth. Any other Pinoy kids out there remember binge-watching Cooking Master Boy? One episode forever seared into my memory banks was when Mao went up against the Master Chef to recreate Mapo Tofu. For the uninitiated, Mapo Tofu is a spicy twist on silky […]

How To Cook Kiampong Rice -Rice Cooker Recipe

Kiampong Rice

My Happy Birthday Kiampong Rice It’s my birthday and I decided to cook something special! (yes, I have to cook it myself for myself haha). For some reason, I got a sudden craving for Kiampong. Fortunately, I had all of the ingredients in the pantry. And guess what? You don’t need to be a kitchen […]

Quick and Easy Claypot Chicken Rice in the Imarflex Turbo Cooker

Claypot Chicken Rice

Well, I know it’s not cooked in a clay pot, like in those traditional Chinese restaurants. I attempted this Claypot Chicken Rice on an Imarflex Turbo Cooker. The Turbo Cooker is the Filipino version of the American Instant Pot. It’s a multi-cooker which means you can cook assorted types of food on it and can […]

Tikoy sa Latik Recipe -Tikoy with a Twist!

tikoy sa latik -tikoy recipe

The Chinese New Year is coming up again and if you’re like me, who have generous Filipino-Chinese friends, bosses, or colleagues, you’ll have dozens of Tikoy in the refrigerator before the end of February. They love giving away this sticky and sweet glutinous rice as a symbol of prosperity and abundance. We usually have them […]

Slow Cooked Hongkong Style Roast Pork Liempo Belly

Slow Cooked Hongkong Style Pork Roast - Relax lang Mom Filipino recipe blog

For an extra scary Halloween, Our menu for today is a putok batok pork recipe. It’s my version of the Hongkong Style Roast Pork Belly, slow-cooked to perfection, with a spine-tingling melt-in-your-mouth fat. Awooooo! One of the very best things that got me addicted to the slow cooker (also known in the other side of […]

How to Cook The Best Beef Lo Mien Noodles

How to Cook The Best Beef Lo Mien Noodles 6

Lo Mien and Chow Mien Noodles are both made from wheat flour with eggs added. Lo mien are stir fried and cooked in high heat. It is similar to our pancit canton, except I find Lo Mien to be a bit sweet. In Binondo (in Manila), if you order this, they make the noodles fresh […]