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🌶️ Mapo Oyakodon Hybrid
麻婆親子丼のハイブリッド

Made & used a Mapo sauce (from mapo tofu), instead of traditionally used katsuobushi dashi broth, for oyakodon (chicken & egg rice bowl).
🍳🐔✨

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唐揚げおろしポン酢を作りました。 🍗🍋✨

Made some oroshi-ponzu for karaage I got from Tokyo Central Market’s deli section (also got their gyudon 🐮)

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Thai Prik Nam Pla 🌶️🐟

Essential, magical condiment when eating Thai food. Really opens up da palette and makes already-delicious Thai food way more delicious. 👅

Use sparingly like table salt; only few drops per bite. 🧂

After pickling for a week or so, the chili is not nearly as spicy as when raw, nor is it fishy.

The salty fish-sauce neutralizes the spicy heat from the raw chili; resulting in crunchy pops of pickled chili slices.
And, the chili neutralizes any fishiness of the fish-sauce.
Magical alchemy.

Usually green chili is used.
Green chili is better for this, as it has way more flesh/meat than very-ripe(thinner skinned) red chili.
More flesh/meat on chili = more nice pickled, juicier crunch & pops of flavor.

I do it restaurant style - super simple, only chili + fish-sauce.

I omit garlic (and also lime, sugar)… as garlic becomes rancid/brown if pickling or left in fridge for months.

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SF-style Garlic & Herb Fries Recipe:
🧄🍟

Frozen French fries; or, fresh, scratch-made fries if u down like dat.
(I just used Costco Kirkland frozen Extra-Crispy French Fries and air-fried them)

For 1-2 servings:

2-3 garlic cloves, minced (can use more if you want… like the large amounts of minced garlic used at classic SF burger joints like Burgermeister)

1-3tbs olive oil
Fresh chopped parsley or dried parsley
Black pepper
Pat of butter, 1/2-1tbs

My additions/adaptations (optional; but huge improvements):
Pinch of - dried basil, dried oregano, red pepper flakes, 1/8tsp bouillon powder (mushroom or chx bouillon)

Briefly sauté/melt & mix everything in pan on low heat for 15-30secs.
Don’t crisp/brown the garlic; we want it still kinda white & fresh.
It actually only takes 20secs to cook & remove the rawness of minced garlic.

Toss the cooked fries in the pan with the garlic & herb olive oil mixture.

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Mì Xào, Vietnamese stir-fried noodles. 🤤✨

Video recipe here:
https://youtu.be/dXgNxwuYM64

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-berto’s/taqueria style salsa roja 🍅🌶️✨

1 garlic clove
Small piece of onion
Juice from lime/lemon wedge
Pinch of salt

Per big tomato:
1 chile de arbol (remove seeds), for mild

2 chile de arbol (remove seeds), for mild-medium

2 chile de arbol (leave seeds), for medium

3 chile de arbol (leave seeds), for medium-spicy

4-5+ chile de arbol (leave seeds), for spicy

Add 1 California chile if wanting deeper red color and slightly earthier/fruitier flavor (or 1/2 guajillo chile).


Broil or air-fryer tomatoes for 10-15mins. 400ºF

Torch tomato skins until black (no need to peel off blackened skin)

Briefly toast chile on pan (or torch on super-low setting) until slightly toasted
(be careful not to burn; just needs a quick toast)

Put everything in blender along with 3-4 tbs of water (adjust as needed; -berto’s salsa is usually thin, watery and runny)

Blitz in blender for 30secs or more until totally liquified

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Vietnamese BBQ
🐷🍯✨
Grilled Pork-Chops, Sườn Nướng
Grilled Pork-Meat, Thịt Nướng

Video recipe here:
https://youtu.be/KkDSW4ziKnY

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Mexican Chicken Tinga without making a huge pot of it. 🐓🌶️✨
Small batch / single or double serving.
Easy & quick.

Costco roasted chx.

For 1 large serving or 2 small servings:

0.5cup sauce:
Roux (1/2tbs oil or lard or butter + 1/2tbs flour, fry until blonde)
1tbs chile powder (New Mexico or California chile)
1/2c water + 1/2tsp chx bouillon
1-2tbs of tomato salsa or tomato sauce (optional)

1/16tsp cumin
1/16tsp oregano
1/16tsp salt
1/8tsp white/apple vinegar or lime/lemon juice
1/16tsp sugar
1/16tsp garlic powder or 0.5x garlic minced
1/16tsp onion powder or small onion piece minced



For 2 large servings (basically double the above):

1cup sauce:
Roux (1tbs oil or lard or butter + 1tbs flour, fry until blonde)
2tbs chile powder (New Mexico or California chile)
1c water + 1tsp chx bouillon
2-4tbs of tomato salsa or tomato sauce (optional)

1/8tsp cumin
1/8tsp oregano
1/8tsp salt
1/4tsp white/apple vinegar or lime/lemon juice
1/8tsp sugar
1/8tsp garlic powder or 1x garlic minced
1/8tsp onion powder or small onion piece minced

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Vietnam’ized some Filipino Pancit into Miến Xào
🥦🍄‍🟫🫑💥

+ Vietnamese style garlic-butter sauce on chicken
🧄🧈🍯

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Bò kho, Vietnamese beef stew (noodle soup version)
🐮🥕🍅🍜✨

I used The Wok's Of Life recipe:
thewoksoflife.com/bo-kho-spicy-vietnamese-beef-ste…

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