Asian cooking at home

Of course, by simply seeing the title you will say to yourself that to eat real good Asian cuisine, nothing beats the little Chinese restaurant on the corner. You may not be wrong, however, if you love to cook and are a bit curious, you may be tempted to succumb to the temptation of preparing a typical Asian menu yourself.

However, before you even start cooking, think carefully about what kind of flavors you want to experiment with. Indeed, Asian cuisine is not limited to Japanese sushi or Chinese lacquered duck... A multitude of flavors, countries and different cultures exist and are sometimes abused by the uninitiated who often cause confusion.

Once the menu is well established, as with any recipe, you will have to find the right ingredients. If it is easy for us to find the constituents of a tasty beef bourguignon, it is another matter to succeed in finding all the ingredients of an authentic Japanese buri zoni. If you are looking in your usual supermarket you will probably be extremely disappointed. Very few stores offer specific Asian ingredients. Most have a small piece of the shelf for Asian specialties, but all too often settle for dehydrated noodles and industrial sauces.

However, if you are lucky enough to live in a large metropolis, by looking around you might find a small Asian shop that offers all kinds of ingredients. But again, watch out for disappointments. Even if these grocery stores are full of “rare” ingredients for Westerners, they do not always have the essential ingredient! If you walk into a Chinese grocery store, you might only find Chinese ingredients there and therefore not find the Vietnamese nuoc-mâm that you sorely need...

The last solution is to order your ingredients on the net. And yes, today we only order audio-video material or books on the web. More and more merchant sites are specializing in the marketing of foodstuffs. Some of its online stores come to specialize in various food products, such as ordering fruits and vegetables, ordering beers, but also ordering Asian ingredients. You will have no trouble finding online stores offering to buy wasabi in tubes, bamboo shoots, sake or even wakame seaweed.

These e-commerce professionals will often guarantee you top quality products, reasonable delivery costs and will finally allow you to make delicious dishes with the flavor of Asia yourself.