Long time no see guys! So anyways, recently I've been trying to learn how to cook several different Chinese inspired dishes. As I've spent a year and a half in China now, and have even unlocked the "Asian Girlfriend" lifetime achievement award, I've slowly been learning how it is they like to construct their dishes, and have been trying to make some stuff for myself and for my parents while on holiday back home.
One vegetable I really enjoy eating is called WaWa Cai (娃娃菜) (sometimes translated into Engrish as "baby food"). Basically, it seems to me to be like a younger version of the traditional white cabbage (bak choi) （白菜）you may be familiar with. In China, my favorite recipe containing WaWa Cai is called "Gangguo Wawa Cai" (looking something like the picture below), which contains some extra ingredients that I haven't yet built up the courage to use or find here in the USA. For me, coming from a family where every day is a concoction of my dad's newfound interest in baking, and the high fat Puerto Rican cuisine I was brought up in, this dish makes for a great refresher in knowing that you don't have to sacrifice taste in order to get health benefits.
The way I like to make it is to take a metric ****ton of chopped Chinese White Cabbage, Onions, Garlic, Ginger, Soy Sauce, Vinegar, Green and Red Chillis, Salt, Pepper, Oil, and Water and sort of shove it all into a wok until it cooks down to a softer, mushier texture. If you've done it right, the little water you've poured in should have prevented the vegetable from burning, and should be quite spicy and sour in flavor. The soy sauce should have darkened the color of the dish quite a bit, from a bright white to a dull yellow with traces of light brown in the juice. Depending on the amount of chillis you put in you can control the level of spice. My girlfriend is particularly fond of firebutt syndrome, so she likes to put just enough chillis to make me want to amputate my tongue. In any case, it makes for a pretty healthy and low calorie dish that you can combine with white rice if it's too hot for you.
This is what I'll be eating exclusively for the next two months in order to lose the weight I gained during the Christmas holidays. Curse you whipped cream!
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