Basic Ingredients for Asian Cooking
After living briefly in Asia, I came back and added to my kitchen a whole range of seasonings and ingredients I’d never used before. Here’s a quick list of what you’ll need for Asian cooking.
- sesame oil (sidebar: in “real” Chinese cooking, sesame oil is never used during the actual cooking process, but added as flavoring afterward)
- sesame seeds
- oyster sauce
- soy sauce
- soy bean paste
- vinegar
- red pepper powder/hot pepper paste
- sake (used as cooking wine)
- veggies, especially carrots, brocoli, and mushrooms
- tofu
- rice
It’s also good to have:
- dried seaweed
- dried shrimp
- soybean sprouts
- fish sauce
- corn syrup
- rice wine
- honey powder
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Shining Inheritance/Brilliant Legacy
Shining Inheritance hit over 40% with its most recent episodes:) I have to say, I’m quite proud of this baby. It’s not exceptional, but it is very very good, and it has all the charm and accessability of a Boys Before Flowers storyline without any of the gigantic screwups/melodrama that dragged that story down.
You know, I personally don’t find Bae Soon Bin’s character Junse compelling at all in this drama, but I’d be excited to see him in other roles. See following picture for proof positive of his um, acting potential.
I thought this sequence of caps was hilarious – the first is an actual scene from the drama and the next is a behind-the-scenes
Aw. So adorable!! The more I see of the actors behind this drama the more I like them, particularly Lee Seung Gi.
And here, in one cap, is why Eun-seung and Hwan are both meant to be together and the cutest couple ever . Matching expressions!
You can watch online on Viikii
Coffee and Irony 