Yun Hai Family Recipes

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Yun Hai Family Recipes

雲海家常食譜

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Tainan-style Zongzi
台南肉粽

Red Oil Wontons
紅油抄手

Ai Yu Jelly Champagne Punch
愛玉果凍香檳賓治

Hakka-style Tang Yuan
客家鹹湯圓

Steamed Fish
清蒸魚

A Bon Appetit-Worthy New Year Spread

新年快樂

For Bon Appetit's Fall 2019 issue, Yun Hai founder and CEO Lisa Cheng Smith shared nine Lunar New Year recipes, featuring flavors from her childhood.

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Everything
chili crisp
dry goods
herbal jellies
Sesame Oils & Pastes
Soy Sauces & Pastes
Taiwanese jams
tatung
vegan
vinegars

Hot and Sour Dumpling Soup 酸湯水餃

Turn a handful of frozen dumplings into a spicy, sour, and aesthetically striking dish.

Tainan Style Zongzi 台南肉粽

Sticky Rice Dumpling, or Zong 粽, is glutinous rice is packed tightly into a tetrahedral funnel made of bamboo leaves and tied off with twine.

Black Bean Tofu 蔭豉豆腐

Pairing yìnchi (fermented black soybeans) with tart and sweet of pickled cordia seeds makes this tofu dish the perfect complement to rice.

Lu Rou Fan

Lu Rou Fan 滷肉飯, or braised pork over rice, is almost as much of a staple in Taiwanese cuisine as rice itself.

A Bon Appetit-Worthy New Year Spread

Here are the nine Lunar New Year dishes that Yun Hai founder Lisa Cheng Smith shared with Bon Appetit, featuring flavors from her childhood.

Steamed Fish

There’s no better answer to a hangry weeknight than a simple homestyle steamed fish, made in a Tatung steamer with minimal ingredients.

Run Bing and Spring Roll

Run Bing (潤餅), or Taiwanese Spring Roll, is a customary dish. Families gather and wrap fresh, lightly cooked ingredients in spring roll skins.

Soy Paste Burnt Basque Cheesecake

A tart and caramel-y dessert from Ozzy Hsieh of Yu Ding Xing. We love it for showing how versatile soy paste, a type of rice-thickened soy sauce, is.

Steamed Egg

This easy, perfectly silken steamed egg is cooked in a Tatung Steamer then dressed with soy sauce and chili crisp.

Sticky Rice Stuffing

This is a tradition in many Taiwanese-American families, adapted for the American autumnal season.

Sesame Oil Lion’s Mane Soup

This is a vegan take on the Taiwanese classic, Sesame Oil Chicken Soup, featuring lion's mane mushrooms.

Three-Cup Chicken 三杯雞

This is a classic Taiwanese stir fry, often paired with light beer. It's sweet, salty, fragrant, and garlicky, with a hint of freshness from basil.

Winter Melon Chicken Soup

This is a simple winter melon soup garnished with blanched Yu Choy and drizzled with soy sauce and black sesame oil.

Red Oil Wontons 紅油抄手

Slippery, soft, and savory pork wontons make for a beautiful contrast to a spicy, sour, and tangy sauce.

Black Sesame Soy Paste Pound Cake

In this recipe by soy sauce brewer Ozzy Hsieh, black sesame and roasted cashews create a deep, nutty aroma that will fill your house.

Taiwanese Cold Noodles 台式涼麵

These cold noodles with sesame-peanut sauce are best enjoyed in the early mornings after a long night of KTV.

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