These recipes are inspired by my favourite Taiwanese Dishes. The ones I crave when I visit my parents, the ones I line up for in the Taiwanese Night Markets and the ones I grew up eating. They’re easy recipes that anyone can follow and I guarantee they will be a great addition into your weekly rotation or dinner party menu.

Each of them encompasses a sustainable or ethical way of cooking, so that you can cook environmentally consciously in your home too.

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Healthy Soba Noodles

There's nothing better than a bowl of comforting soba noodles, oh wait there is! A bowl of noodles that is also healthy and comforting all at the same time. And this one can be done in a quick 30 minutes.

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The Easiest Tomato and Egg Stir-fry 番茄炒蛋

Quick and easy tomato and egg stir-fry. This 10 minute mid-week meal should be added to everyone’s weekly rotation! Comforting and nostalgic meal to enjoy over a big bowl of rice.

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Taiwanese Style Zong Zi (Ba Zhang)

Sticky Rice Dumplings, known as Zong Zi or Ba Zhang, are enjoyed during Dragon Boat Festival. The pyramid shaped parcels take time and love to make.

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The Best Dumpling Dipping Sauce

This is the best dipping sauce to dunk your home-made or store bought dumplings into. It's the perfect balance of savoury, sweet, spicy and tart. It's so good you might find yourself slurping it down.

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Cheat’s Chicken Rice

A creative and delicious way to use up leftover rotisserie chicken from the grocery store. A cheat’s Chicken Rice with and addictive ginger spring onion sauce and creamy coconut rice.

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Dad’s “Secret” Mentsuyu

A four ingredient Mentsuyu noodle sauce concentrate recipe to simplify your favourite Japanese dishes.

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Bean Curd ‘Noodle’ Salad

A healthy, satisfying noodle salad made from bean curd strips, tossed in a umame, flavour packed vinaigrette.

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Mapo Roasted Tomatoes with Labneh

The BEST Tomato Recipe. Inspired by the classic Chinese dish ‘Mapo Tofu’, this quick and easy recipe has all of the numbing spice of the original dish, but is balanced out by the sweetness of the caramelised tomatoes and creaminess of the labneh.

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