Tiny Urban Kitchen: Cooking and Tasting Around the World

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• Tiny Urban Kitchen: Cooking and Tasting Around the World

  Welcome to Tiny Urban Kitchen, where I (Jen!) chronicle my travels around the world and my cooking adventures in my tiny urban kitchen.

• Easy Homemade Mochi - Tiny Urban Kitchen

  mochi (n) a Japanese rice cake made of glutinous flour pounded into a paste and molded into shape (source: Wikipedia) I've always had a weakness for the chewy texture of rice cakes. It doesn't really ...

• Traditional Pork Belly Buns (Gua Bao) - Tiny Urban Kitchen

  Gua Bao from Shangri La in Belmont, MA Long before David Chang made pork belly buns famous with his famous Momofuku signature dish, Taiwanese people have been enjoying "gua bao," a traditional pork be...

• Homemade Chinese Dumplings (jiao zi) - Tiny Urban Kitchen

  Nothing beats a homemade dumpling. OK, perhaps I exaggerate slightly. There are some transcendent dumplings out there that I have no hope of every recreating. However, by and large, I almost always pr...

• Matcha Mochi Cake - Tiny Urban Kitchen

  Over the holiday break, I received the most interesting e-mail from a friend. Dear Jen: I have a serious proposition for you. [Our friend] gave me a taste of your green tea mochi that you made for his...

• Oven Roasted Kabocha Squash - Tiny Urban Kitchen

  Kabocha squash, when roasted, tastes phenomenal. I seriously can't stop eating it when I make it. Furthermore, it's so easy to roast in the oven.