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Sneak Peak – Char Siu Bow – Pork Bun Recipe from our brand new DIM SUM Cookbook
This book is now available to purchase in Waterstones and online with Amazon. Also pick up a copy at Sweet Mandarin. We are having a book signing party at Sweet Mandarin on 22nd February 2015 5pm –...
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This is a lesser known stock which we call ‘sea stock’. The kelp tastes seaweed-like but stronger and the bonito flakes originate from the dried bonito fish. It is perfect to use in a miso soup with...
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Chicken Foo Young!
Foo Yung has been criticised as an anglicised Chinese dish but actually this omelette dish has roots in a Shanghainese dish called Fu Yung Egg Slices. Nonetheless, I believe we should embrace...
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Waterchestnut and Prawn Dumpling? Buy the dim sum cookbook and learn how to...
This is a really easy recipe but very effective and a party pleaser. Try this recipe at home and see what you think.This book is now available to purchase in Waterstones and online with Amazon. Also...
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Want to try make Pan-fried Pork Dumplings…… Then buy The Dim Sum Cookbook –...
This recipe is one of our family favourites and its so easy to replicate at home. We hope you will enjoy making these with your family. Purchase the DIM SUM Cookbook from all good bookshops and...
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Pork Open-Top Dumplings – Siu Mai – Buy our DIM SUM book today!
This recipe is taken from the DIM SUM book out now in Waterstones and online with Amazon. Also pick up a copy at Sweet Mandarin. We are having a book signing party at Sweet Mandarin on 22nd February...
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Tuesday’s Pork Rib Broth
My twin sister Helen, younger sister Janet, younger brother Jimmy and I grew up in the family food business and lived above the shop. Like our parents and their parents – it was a way of life and we...
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Lettuce Wraps (or San Choy Bau in Chinese)
When I make this dish, I think of my grandfather Chan who grew up well practised in Kung Fu and also immersed in his family’s restaurant business. He’d often amuse himself by throwing lettuces in the...
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Crispy Won Tons
These are one of my favourite dim sum. They are a great party food and are so easy to make. You can fill the wontons with any filling of your choice. I prefer using prawn as it makes the wontons light...
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Prawn Dumpling Mr Matt Preston? Masterchef Australia’s Next Challenge: Dim Sum…
Our brand new DIM SUM cookbook is out and we are delighted that it has caught the eye of Matt Preston, the formidable judge on Masterchef Australia. The DIM SUM Cookbook is now available to buy in...
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Thank you to the generations of clients who have supported us. You’re the best.
We held a Thank You Dinner for our longest standing clients – those who through generations have frequented my Grandma’s restaurant, my Mum’s takeaway and now us at Sweet Mandarin. As I was serving...
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Six Degrees of Separation – Dim Sum, Silk Road, Guangzhou China, Britain,...
As a British Born Chinese, I have lived a very British way of life being educated in Manchester and Australia. However, throughout my life, I grew up with the backdrop of serving and cooking in the...
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Yin and Yang Foods – Can Balancing such foods improve your hair and skin?
Balancing Yin and Yang can improve one’s hair and skin. “The created universe carries the yin at its back and the yang in front; Through the union of the pervading principles it reaches harmony” (Lao...
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Look Inside our DIM SUM Cookbook – and Buy Buy Buy! Thanks Antonio Carluccio...
This DIM SUM Cookbook is a culmination of generations of dim sum recipes and even has a chapter on Superfood dim sum. This book is now available to purchase in Waterstones and online with Amazon....
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Hot and Sour Soup
Helen, Janet and I gave up our day jobs as a lawyer, engineer and financier to open Sweet Mandarin in 2004 to the horror of our parents who protested that restaurants were hard graft and...
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The Chicken Wings
I gotta just blog-wax lyrical about the Chicken Wings - I just ordered a portion . Now there is a saying that “the Chinese will eat anything with its back to the Heavens except the table and chairs” –...
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Merry Christmas – We’re having Peking Duckenail for our Christmas Roast...
Peking duck is Beijing’s most famous dish and was served to numerous Emperors. However, the true Peking duck recipe takes over 24 hours to make and requires a pump to blow air between the skin and the...
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My Mum’s Chicken’s Feet Soup (For Beautiful Skin)
When my mum was pregnant with us, her knees were pained by the weight of the bump and Lily made this soup for my mum to boost her cartilage. There was a surprise in the pregnancy – only I had shown up...
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We’re open today 1st Jan 2016 Happy New Year! A New Year – A New You – Tip...
A New Year’s Message to You All HELLO! We hope you have recovered from all the Christmas festivities and raring to go for 2016. At Sweet Mandarin there are early preparations to make the celebration...
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Oprah’s Ten Weight Loss Recipes – Beansprouts and Chinese Chives
This series of blogs is addressed to Oprah and all those out there battling the bulge and excess weight. I am often asked by my clients to prepare for them a special detox meal over a period of a week...
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