Sweet and sour dishes are probably some of the most popular dishes in Chinese American restaurants. Sweet sour pork especially seem to have become very much a staple of any Chinese restaurant here. My mom used to make sweet sour dishes at home a lot too. And the color is nothing like anything I’ve seen at the Chinese restaurants here.
Here, most sweet sour dishes are BRIGHT RED and the sauce tends to run more sweet than it does sour. I have never quite got used to that red coloring when I eat sweet sour dishes at restaurants here.
We had a huge piece of halibut sitting in the freezer that we needed to use up. We defrosted it, and cut it into several fillets. Annie decided to take a few of the fillets and make a sweet and sour fish dish (that’s for another post). I took the remaining fillets and coated them with a couple tablespoons of Old Bay Blackened Seasoning.
Daikon or white radishes are all over the farmer’s markets right now. They looked so good that I couldn’t help myself and bought 5 of them. Not all of them are going into this soup. I used some of them for radish cake (which I will post later). Continue reading Pork and Daikon Soup with Red Dates and Carrots→
Recently, someone asked me why I post so many of my recipes in Metric measures (you know who you are!) instead of cups and Imperial measures. I said, "Well, I’m from Malaysia and we measured all our cooking and baking in grams." To which she responded, "You’re in the US now, so get with it!" Ok, well, there are other reasons I do so.
