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    Chinese Potstickers – Gyoza

    10/4/2010 - By 


    Here is one of my favorite Chinese recipes of all time. It is a delicious recipe that can be founded in almost all Chinese restaurants. Also, this is a recipe that freezes really well if you follow the trick which I show in the video. Once they are frozen, you can have a great meal in less than 10 minutes after pulling from the freezer.

    This recipe also brings back a lot of memories from my childhood. It is quite the production to make potstickers and our entirely family would work together to make a monster meal of potstickers. My Dad and one of my brothers would make the skins and my Mom and I would wrap the potstickers. It was a miniature assembly line.

    My grandmother who recently passed away also made her version of potstickers and contributed to the recipe. The recipe is a family recipe that has been handed down from the generations and also quite different than the potstickers you get in the restaurants. Enjoy. This batch turned out delicious.

    One comment on “Chinese Potstickers – Gyoza”

    1. I make this gyoza few days ago. It tasted delicious. I couldn’t find ready made gyoza skin locally, hence I prepared it from scratch. The skin turns out fine and not too doughy. The trick of getting paper thin skin is using the dimsum wooden rolling pin which allows me to apply equal pressure on the dough to get the paper thin edge. This gyoza go well with Japanese Gyoza dipping sauce.

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    My Grandmother – The Bridge Player

    9/27/2010 - By 


    My grandmother died on September 22, 2010 in Los Angeles, CA. She was 107 years old. She was the most amazing person that I know, and perhaps will ever know. Now that she is gone, I have lots of thoughts about how my grandmother shaped my life and I also have lots of stuff on my computer about my grandmother.

    This is the first installment. My grandmother was an avid bridge player. Furthermore, everyone in my family is an avid bridge player. In my family, there are three sons, and my parents. The highest level that a bridge player can achieve in competition is called Life Master. Both my parents and both of my brothers have achieved Life Master. I guess I am the black sheep of the family as far as bridge goes, although I know the basic rules so I can participate.

    My grandmother loved to play bridge too. She never played bridge competitively but we would always play in every family gathering since there was never a shortage of players. My grandmother played well into her early hundreds. In her neighborhood, she organized a weekly bridge game when she was in her 90’s. When she was 101, she abruptly stopped playing because she said it would make her head explode.

    For those that don’t know, bridge is a very difficult card game. It takes a good memory and a good grasp of numbers and of course the 52 card deck. My grandmother had all of those skills and it is truly a marvel that she could play bridge to such an advanced age.

    I took this video in 2002 because I was excited about digital video. The video quality is only so so, but the mere fact that I can pull this video from my hard drive and upload it to YouTube is why I love digital technology. Check out my grandmother at 99 years old playing bridge with me and my two parents in Los Ángeles CA.

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    Curry Beef – Chinese Style

    9/22/2010 - By 

    Here’s my second cooking video. This one is a curry beef recipe which my mother originally typed for me on a real type writer when I went to college. I have since modified the recipe to make it my own. It is a really good recipe because it freezes really well. That is, place the left overs in the freezer, and it survive well in the microwave after a reheat.

    The key ingredients are:

    • Beef sliced in one inch slices
    • Sliced ginger
    • Chopped green onions
    • Marinate of corn starch, cooking wine and soy sauce
    • Sugar
    • Curry powder
    • Chopped cilantro (garnish)

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    Chicken and Bean Sprouts

    9/10/2010 - By 


    Welcome to my first cooking video. I am really excited about making it. The main reason is that I love YouTube. It is so awesome. Whatever you might want to learn, there are hundreds if not thousands of videos waiting to show you how. Mainly I use it for learning new songs on guitar and also cooking. So in that spirit, I decided that I should share some of my favorite recipes and how I make them on YouTube.

    I love cooking. It is something that I try to do every weekend because it is like any skill. You need to practice to get really good. Here is my first of what I hope are many videos of my favorite Chinese recipes.

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    Show to Ryan when He Turns 15

    8/11/2009 - By 


    I have been rearranging all of my video files, and I found this one taken back in May 2002 in Columbus, OH. Ryan, 7 years old in the video, was acting like a hyper active 7 year old. Ryan was always trying to figure out how to be a little more absurd. I took this video, and I said to him, “I can’t wait to show you this when you are 15 years old.” Here it is 2009, and unbelievable as it sounds, Ryan is now 15 years old.

    Now that we are in the digital age, it is really fun and easy to see how much children change over time. Whereas us adults, we are basically the same. Well, maybe in Ryan’s case, he hasn’t change that much. Just kidding. Actually, Ryan will be 15 in October, but close enough. Also, I am no longer hosting my videos on YouTube (It’s a long story), so let me know if there is any difficulty viewing.

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