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Chef
Charles Phan's Grilled Five-Spice Chicken with Tamarind Sauce
For years, folks have nagged Chef
Charles Phan of Slanted Door fame to write a cookbook. But with six
restaurants/cafes now, he hardly had the time.
Fortunately for all of us, he finally
managed to do it, releasing his first cookbook last month, "Vietnamese
Home Cooking" (Ten Speed Press), of which I received
a review copy.
The book is filled with beautiful
photographs of Phan's most recent trips to Vietnam. The recipes highlight
the fundamental techniques used in Vietnamese cooking: frying, steaming,
braising, grilling and stir-frying.
"Grilled Five-Spice Chicken with
Tamarind Sauce" is easy enough to prepare. Chicken thighs or breasts
marinate in a pungent bath of fish sauce, light soy sauce, loads of
shallots, copious amounts of garlic, chiles, fermented red bean curd and
five-spice powder.
Click here
for the recipe and for a recollection of the first time I took my parents
to the original Slanted Door location.
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Delicious doings
for Chinese New Year
Martin Yan's M.Y.
China restaurant in the Westfield San Francisco Centre will be offering
two special menus, Feb. 1-26, for the Chinese New Year celebration.
The first menu, $88 for
two people, includes: "Juicy Dumplings Sampler"; Peking
duck (1/2 duck two ways -"Skin in Sliders" and stir-fried meat
in lettuce cups); "Seafood Treasury" (shrimp, scallop, and
calamari with mixed greens and mushrooms); "Forbidden Fried
Rice"; and sugar puffs.
The second menu, $68 for
two people, includes: "Seafood Dim Sum Collection (shiu mai, har
gow, spinach dumpling); Peking duck (1/2 duck two ways - "Skin in
Sliders" and stir-fried meat in lettuce cups; green pepper beef rib
eye; vegetable egg white fried rice; and sugar puffs.
Pair all that with a
"Stone Serpent" cocktail ($11), made with that staple of
Chinese banquet dinners - Belfast Sparkling Cider.
Click here
for more things to do and places to go to celebrate this Year of the
Snake.
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From My Family to
Yours
Sometimes the best way to celebrate Chinese New Year is with family and
friends.
If you are planning a big
gatherings and wondering what to cook, try some Jung Family recipes.
"Steamed Pork Cake
(hom yu jing jiu yok bang)," "My Dad's Foile-Wrapped
Chicken," "My Version of my Mom's Sticky Rices," and many
more soul-warming recipes.
Click here
for my Recipe Index and scroll down to the "Jung
Family-Related Recipes" section.
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