Mapo Tofu

Mapo tofu is a spicy dish that for people who like spicy food. This dish you can't eat without rice or noodles because it might be salty or spicy to you. A little bit rice top with mapo tofu and put into mouth, you can taste both rice and spicy tofu melt in your mouth. Or you can put rice in your mouth, and then a bite of mapo tofu. Rice will balance the spicy tofu, so you won't feel too hot in your mouth.

If you don't like too spicy, you can add less hot sauce, but it would lose the original taste. The story of this dish came from China. After war, Some Chinese brought this to Taiwan. Ma as 麻 means spicy, Po as 婆 is symbolic as grandmother. This name of mapo is a story came from a old woman, who was specialized in making this dish. If you google online, there will be many different recipe. Basically the method is same; it's just people use different chili sauce, so it taste a little bit different. I put many fermented chili bean sauce instead of hot pepper because it's much easier.  Here, I am going to use the faster method to make this dish.

what you need:
Tofu 1 pack ( chop into dice shape)
Grounded pork or beef 50g
Green onion 2 (chopped)
Garlic clove 4 ( minced)
Ginger 5g (minced)

Source:
Fermented chili bean sauce 2 Tbs ( you can get at Chinese market)
soy sauce 2 Tea sp
sugar 1 tea sp 
Water 30 cc
chicken broth 30 cc
chili powder 1 tea sp

Directions:

1.Add oil in pen and wait for 1 min , then add garlic, ginger, and grounded pork.
2. After pork turns to white color add all sauces, and stir to make sure sauces are even with pork.
3. Add tofu, also stir them slowly. Cook for 3 min till sauce gets into tofu for a bit.
4. Add green onion

Asian style pen fried potato

Living in another country requires me to cook because there are not many real home dishes around where I live, especially in Boston. I recently ran out of idea of cooking potatoes, and then there was a thought come up with my head-my mom's potato dish-, I would not say it's super delicious, but it makes me feel warm because I would thought of my family when I am having the food. Eating this food I feel I am home.

Adding sauces it's common in Asian cuisine because it enhances flavor. Oil,vinegar, soy sauce, sesame oil, sugar, and cooking wine will never disappear in Asian food recipe. So if you like Asian cuisine, these sauces are must be have. I am going to introduce my mom's pen fried potato dish, and it's very easy to make.

You will need:

ingredient :
A potato (cut into thin stick shape)
5 plants of Parsley chop into small pieces ( according your preference)

Sauce:
1/3 cut oil (any oil)
pinch of garlic salt
3 TSPsoy sauce
2 TSP vinegar
2 tea SP butter (optional)If you like butter flavor, oil can be reduced for a bit
Steps:
1. Add oil in pen, and wait till get warm
2. Pen fried the potato with mid fire till potato cooked
3. add all sauce, butter, and mix with potato
4. turn down fire to small, leave about 3 min for potato soaking all sauce.
5. add parsley and mix with potato

Ps. Don't forget keeping mix potatos while absorbing sauce, so potatoes will get sauce even.