Five Spice Kitchen

09/19/2017

I decided to take an hour break from work, then found kimchi, tofu and thawed dumpling skins in the fridge. So naturally this is happening.

03/12/2017

Five Spice Kitchen updated their address.

Five Spice Kitchen updated their address.

02/28/2017

When in Short Pump...

02/22/2017

When you can put a half dozen of them together while heating up the pan, are quicker than instant ramen, and way more satisfying. Last of shrimp and chive dumpling fillings are used up from workshop last week. 😢

02/17/2017

When you just had a dumpling workshop and find leftover filling and skin in the fridge, quickie dumplings for your own dinner have only two pleats but are still delicious.

02/17/2017

Tonight's workshop fillings were shrimp & chive, chicken & cilantro and veg with king mushrooms. Lots of dumpling making fun tonight!

02/13/2017

knows my !
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Repost: Dumplings are basically pockets of love, so why not make some for your special someone this ? Head to saveur.com for the recipe for these mixed shellfish dumplings 🍤

02/03/2017

date night is sold out for 2/16! Team Dumpling .rocks, let's do this!

01/31/2017

Lunch inspirations

01/30/2017

Happy Chinese New Year! I hope the workshop attendees cooked some of the dumplings they took home!

01/27/2017

Sherrina brings heat to the dumpling kitchen! 😎✨

01/07/2017

Snow day kitchen sink dumplings from scratch - king mushrooms, napa, carrot, onion and chives

12/31/2016

When are specifically requested by the party hostess...

12/23/2016

When in 's restaurant...

10/01/2016

The pasta guru at work

09/23/2016

Barrel aged and fried from Mekong, celebrating the first paycheck from job! 🙆🏻

09/22/2016

Giant Soup Dumplings Are Selling Out Within 15 Minutes

I neeeeeeed one, now.

09/08/2016

At the end of a long day, fried are my favorite take out option.

09/05/2016

What? You don't spend countless hours on Insta drooling over other people's dumplings? I do, and is one of my favorites!!! Wish I could go to Ontario for some right now!

09/03/2016

Korean yaki mandoo at the Noodle and Friends!

11/10/2015

I kneaded the flour ( here), salt and boiling water and magically the dough came together. My mother never made the dough for for the wrappers, but she often made them for 수제비, just the dough cooked in soup seasoned with dried anchovies. But I do have memories of rolling out dough and making dumplings with an old boyfriend's mother, who really taught me how to cook, in my early 20s. S**t! That's 20 years ago, too?

11/10/2015

and soy sauce aren't friendly. I had a guest who came last week that's was and despite my best effort to find him something to eat at , it just wasn't possible. I bought him a gluten free and his party had cocktails at the ramen shack, but went to find food elsewhere.
I have many friends and I fret that they miss out on a lot of good Asian food. So I googled gluten free dumpling wrappers while in the market and picked up and rice flours since I will make it from scratch. Sweet rice flour is naturally sticky, and it acted as a binder and rolled out smooth, strong wrappers.

11/06/2015

This happened last week, too. Bar team was making a tea syrup for cocktails that went wrong. It had a whole bag of leaves. We tried to salvage it and I suggested boiling the syrup down with the leaves in the pot. I cut cheese cloth, wrapped the leaves and simmered the syrup. And when I looked at this and smelled the medicinal, smoky scent of the tea, memories of Chinese herbal medicine being brewed at my house and a thousand houses in my childhood somewhere flooded back. How is it that last time I went home was, 1993? And how is it that a scent, a piece of cheese clothe, a simple act of wringing the leaves out by hand would take me back instantly?

11/06/2015

Sometimes, actually always, the Universe provides little hints. Last week at , a chef took leftover napa cabbage and decided to make . I hadn't made kimchi from scratch in... Decades. But my Type A, I'm-the-legit-Korean-in-the-house personality had to butt in, and I had my hands in freshly minced garlic, ginger, red peppers, fish sauce and scallions. I can't list all the memories that flooded my head while I was doing this. Except suddenly I am now the 40 something 아줌마 making kimchi in those images, not the little kid being shushed out of the kitchen.

11/03/2015

The second generation changed my life, mainly because I could photo document everything I loved about my daily life. In my case, what I was eating, or cooking, or who I was sharing a meal with.
I had cooking clubs and prototype of food blogs before Facebook and Wordpress. As a marketer, wanting to find and tell stories is an underlying motivation that drives everything I do. It's the stories and images make my life vibrant.

11/02/2015

Welp, here I go again. 40 something is an interesting time. On a rainy Sunday last week, I thought it would be a good day to make dumplings, something I hadn't done in ages. Then I headed to the market and filled up my buggy, but instead of reaching for the premade dumpling wrappers, I went for variety of flours, a small rolling pin and a bamboo steamer. It was time to do it in an old fashioned way.