Check us out at the CHOW: Time Inc Event!

Eddie will be featured on the Panel of Speakers and there wil be a food tasting afterwards!

A Full Day of Pork

I woke up and saw a lot of pork belly and sausage in my fridge, so what's a brother to do? I started off with Breakfast Salad: romaine, red sausage, taiwanese relish vinegarette (i give up spelling that shit and its my original recipe so i can spell it how i want), and a sunny side up egg. Fuck you pulino's breakfast pizza lol. naw, i'm playin, i like pulino's. lives up to hype in my book. not gonna get into whether its THE BEST, but who the fuck cares, its dope. ketih mcnally got the white bird game on lock. he needs to teach them how to walk in their big ass shoes, but they still look good hobbling around like pigeons. i fux wit you and ur bitches, pulino's.



Ahhhhh I love it. Salt Cured Pork Belly. Cured, cooked twice, sliced, and served with seasoning salt.



as it will be served at xiao ye





OH, and a giant bowl of Triple Lindy Rice. This rice is special. Triple cooked (sauteed, steamed, then rice cooker) with red sausage, cured pork belly, and flavas. Entirely different texture than other rices. It has the consistency of fried rice, WITHOUT the greasiness. You taste the flavors and get the ill texture you like. I should have been enjoying this with my roor but fucking evan broke it. BUMSHIT.



And lastly, a bonus. The most professional jump-off you will ever see on this blog, Matt Baer Bidness cards designed by Ning. This is BIG motherfucking Business haha.

Its Always Timbo Weather

Oh shit! The big homie Coltrane hit me with a pair of timbs. These joints got friday at santos written all over em

Hainan Chicken and Mo!

Here is the Hainan Chicken we'll be serving at Xiao Ye. Its one of my favorite dishes all time, really tough to make too. The timing on the chicken has to be perfect and then there's the ice bath that's a pain in the ass! haha. The dish comes with chicken rice (rice made in chicken stock), minced ginger, green onion oil, and chili sauce we make ourselves.



This was the chicken in the ice bath. I used a free range bo bo chicken so it comes with feet and all.



Here is the Spicy Bang Bang Chicken Noodles. It is hand-pulled free range chicken, chili salsa, and noodles tossed in green onion infused oil. I love cold noodles, especially in summer. The chili salsa is made of pureed kim chi and a bunch of other little things. I think it utilizes kim chi in a way other people aren't right now and its pretty cool.



Usually, you get bang bang chicken and it has all sesame paste. I have my own mixture and its accented by peanut butter and chicken stock. The noodles also come with sliced cucumbers and hand pulled chicken.

Highlights from Talk & Taste!

Talk & Taste was a lot of fun! Nice meeting some other people cookin' dope food too. The big guy in the kitchen makin a cameo is Zak from Fatty Crab/Cue. I went to Cue' recently, really dope bbq. I would stick to the bbq, but definitely the best bbq I've had in a LONG time. Worth the trip and wait. Met another member of the Huang Clan, Ching-He Huang. Really, really nice, she's doin her thing over in London so hope to make it out there sometime.

EFRE - Everyone's Favorite Round Eye aka Sarah Arden was also in the house assisting with the demo.

I was real happy that Remy sponsored the demo. So I made TJ a KTV Delight - green tea, remy, chinese sausage BONG lol

Lucky Rice Night Market

Thanks Taiwan Toursism for being so gracious with the sign and writing baohaus off to the side in 8 point font LOL. What kind of Taiwanese manners are these? Its all good, tourism council was really nice. Next time, they should just show a brother some love for bringing free food, staff, and cooking everything. I mean, shit, I lost 5 lbs for this event, I went down to a b-cup, that's not what's poppin.

Please, please, no photos, I just bagged up a bird and I got powder on my shiiieeetttt.

Real nice venue under the archway, great weather, really one of the most fun food events I've ever been too. Danielle, Cindy, Barbara, and all the lucky rice people were organized, and we got everything we needed. If you are a restaurant, def work with them if you get a chance!

Uncle Jesse cookin' up a storm!

This was my favorite dish we did. I woke up early, chopped up the top layer of pork belly and then ground the bottom half. The top half of pork belly is AWESOME, great texture, snappy, and when braised, so soft. Then, the meatier part is good for sausage ground. This was for our Lu Roh Fan i.e. Taiwanese Pork Belly Gravy on Rice.

photo from metromix

Oh yea... taiwanese fried chicken

Oh whats good girl, can you get away? BRRRRR (bird call)

Cat gettin her shine on.

The fam was in attendance holdin' down BK. My bad I forgot to take photos of stinky tofu, if you got some put em up! My favorite part was definitely puttin out stinky tofu open air under the bridge. WHAT IT DO?

Lucky Rice Cocktail Party

This event was crunk. As crunk as crunk could be with the ill after-work-blazer-wearing crowd. They dropped "Paid in Full" and some other decent tracks so that was good and surprising. Unfortunately, they forgot to play a few appropriate joints like "My Drank and My Two-Step" and "The Humpty Dance" for the old heads. LOL. They love the humpty dance.

It was no Just Blaze @ Santos set, but come on, for a food fest, you aint gonna hear complaints from me! Plus, they had free bonchon! Bad news, mo fuckers were pushing old dudes and kicking geishas for a chicken wing cause approximately 30 wings came out every hour. But you know I threw them bows and got to the front so I could get busy! UGGGhhhhhhhhh

Our homies from WD-50 were there and had one of the best drinks of the night. As you will see though, I'm a sucker for coconut. I love coconut water and if I could trade my poland spring jugs for jugs of vitacoco I would. These guys had the Oishinho - sake, cachaca & coconut water. One of the more straight forward, simple, clean drinks of the night and I really liked that.

Evan got real excited finding the Daniel bar that had frozen 8-balls in martini glasses, but he wasn't sure if he needed to drink it in the bathroom or not. Ning loved this drink too.

This was B Flat - Kissui Vodka, sake, Plum Wine & Peach liqueur garnished with Yamamomo. This one was good even though the plum wine was a little sweet, again, more minimalist compared to the other drinks that tasted like herbal experiments. I'm not going to list any bad ones cause I'm sick of getting blog posts re-posted with headlines like "Baohaus Hates World Peace and Vitamins!" (cause honestly, i'm toe-up most of the time i write these things and its all a joke) But as a commentary on trends, I'm not into drinks that feel like you are tasting a confused spice racked with a liquor back. I know food nerds get orgasms reading descriptions of drinks with shit like cardamom, rhubarb, or chinese 5-spice, but its no fun when your drink resembles a recipe for chicken brine.

But back to your regularly scheduled programming.... By this time, we were double-fisting and 6 deep about 20 minutes into the event. Uncle Jesse looked a lil' hurt. As you can see, yours truly didn't get the memo and showed up in an oscar the grouch t-shirt. Ma bad yall!

Ning got twisted too and started making love to the En Japanese Brasserie - Warm Sake Strawberry Whipped Cream Dassai 50 w/ Strawberry Whipped Cream.

At this point, Uncle Jesse wandered off.... Do yo thang homie but I think shawty is taller than you LOL

I found mo dranks.

Cindy found us!

Spot Dessert Bar: Corn Cream (or, if you read the chingrish on the pamphlet "Corn Crema") with Tropical Fruit Salad & Condensed Milk Toast. This was AWESOME. I tried to go to Spot 3 weeks ago, but as I rolled up, the cops rolled on a guy and his girlfriend, pulled a 9 on the dude and shut down the block. Thanks guys....

I leave you with this, Happy Birthday Sparkz. It was my boy's birthday this week and an Elvis Short Person came through to the party. Best drink of the night at Lucky Rice Cocktail Party: Macao Trading Drunken Dragon's Milk: Green Tea Vodka, Coconut Puree, Thai Basil & Bitters. Was like a coconut milk tea with basil and drank.