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1. Open the e-mail Paypal containing invoice.
2. Click on “Pay Invoice” link in the e-mail, to open the invoice
3. On the Paypal invoice page, click on “Pay” at the lower left corner . This will lead you to the login page on Paypal site.
4. If you don’t have paypal account, click on “Continue” at the lower left side, above various credit card symbols
5. The link will lead to the screen for using credit card payment
Many people love mochi. Do you know that you can make mochi at home too? You can find the most required ingredients at PierMall.com. Here is the list:
glutinous rice flour
glutinous rice flour
3) Wheat or corn starch, you can find it in your local store
Here is a step by step videos I found on youtube, which is quite helpful. Enjoy!
Here is another one with some variations.
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Jujube Chinese Red Date
Jujube date is a very popular Chinese fruit. You can enjoy them fresh during the fall (August~ October) in the northern China. But most frequently, they are enjoyed from dried fruit. Here are some easy recipes that are popular in China.
Several commonly used ingredients mentioned below can be found at PierMall.com:
For Health Benefit
(1) For those who always feel fragile, tired, with poor sleeping quality
Jujube Chinese Red date, Dragon Eye fruit, Lotus seed
Wash all three ingredients
Cook Lotus seed in water until soft,
Add jujube date and dragon eye fruit for another 10 minute.
Sweeten with sugar, rock sugar or honey.
(2) For those with high blood pressure, high cholesterol
Use 8 oz celery, 30 pieces of red date. Wash and boil in water together for 30 minutes. Drink and soup and eat both celery and date
(3) For those recovering from sickness
Cut lamb into small pieces, add shelled peanut and date, cook over medium heat for 2 hours. Eat both meat and soup
(4) For those with excess brain work: poor sleep, forgiveness
Cook jujube date 4 Oz, dragon eye fruit 4 Oz , walnut 2 Oz and American ginseng slices 0.5 oz together until soft, add 2 Oz honey mix together. Cool and stored in a air tight glass jar. Enjoy 1 table spoon morning and evening.
Honey Peanut & Jujube
4 Oz Dried jujube date,
8 Oz Honey,
4 Oz raw shelled peanut
3 cups of wate
Wash jujube date and peanut thoroughly, soak in the warm water for 15 minutes
Combine 3 cups water and peanut, cook over gentle heat until peanut is soft
Add jujube dates to the cooking pot, continue to cook for about 10 minutes or until jujube dates are soft but not overcooked.
Drain the water and set the jujube date and peanut aside to cool
Add honey to the pot and cook over low heat until it becomes sticky
Add jujube dates and peanuts into honey, and mix them well.
Jujube date paste
Cook dried jujube dates for 10 minutes or until it is soft.
Make sure do not overcook the dates, which might turn sour when overcooked.
Puree the cooked dates in a food processor,
Sweeten with sugar.
Work the date into smooth paste.
It can be used as spread for the bread, filling for many other things, such as: bread, cookies, dessert and steaming bun
Snow mushroom Jujube soup
10 Jujube dates
20 Goji berries
20 peanuts or dried lotus seeds
2 large Snow Mushroom
1 cup of Medium grain rice or sweet glutinous rice
Sugar (black, brown, white or rock sugar)
Soak the snow mushroom in cold water for 4 hours
Wash the mushroom thoroughly. Break into smaller pieces and remove the hard part of the roots. Wash jujube date, Goji, and peanut/lotus seed
In a pot, combine rice with peanut/lotus seed, cook over high heat until boiling
Reduce the heat to medium heat, add snow mushroom and continue to cook
When the peanut/lotus seed is soft, add jujube date and goji berry and continue cook until they are all soft . Snow mushroom will become gel like
Cook in slow cooker: This soup can also be cooked with slow cooker. Just add all ingredients except jujube dates into the pot, Cook over high heat for 3~4 hours, or low heat for 5~6 hours until all ingredients are very soft. Add jujube and continue cook for 30 minutes before serving.
Tips: When the jujube date is overcooked, it will turn sour. So add the jujube in the last step. Usually it only requires 30 minutes’ cooking time. If you use black or brown sugar, the soup will turn dark color
The rice can be optional in this recipe. When there is no rice added, the soup is more gel like.
Eight Treasure soup
This is the traditional Chinese dessert. There are many different forms: Ba Bao Soup, Ba Bao Rice Cake, ba Bao Rice Dishes etc The ingredients are all similar: there are at least 8 different things. Sweet rice, Red beans, jujube date are the essentials. For the rest, you can add anything. Just use your imagination. Here is one example:
6 Oz Sweet rice (gluto rice)
4 oz Chinese Red bean (Or Japanese Azuki bean,. But it can be replaced with red kidney bean). Green Bean (mung bean) can also be used.
2 oz Raisin
2 Oz raw shelled peanut
2 oz Lotus seed
2 Oz pine nut (or walnut)
2 oz dried jujube date
2 oz Longan dragon eye (shelled dried whole fruit or seedless dried fruit)
4 cups of water.
Wash sweet rice and soak in water for 3 hours
Cook sweet rice, peanut and lotus seed in cold water until they are soft
Add longan dragon eye, jujube date and pine nut and continue cook until the rice become sticky
Add raisin and sugar, cook for another 15 minutes
Serve.
Tips: If you want to release the flavor of dragoneye into the soup, add it early. The fruit itself will become tasteless if cook for long. If you want to keep the sweetness in the fruit itself, add the longan fruit together with jujube.
Slow cooker version:
This soup can also be cooked in a slow cooker:
Add water, rice, peanuts and lotus seed in the slower cooker Cook in High for 3~4 hours, or in Low for 4~5 hours
Add dragon eye fruit, jujube red date and raisin and sweeten the soup 30~45 minutes before serving.
Tip: If you like thick soup, add less water. You can always start with less water and adjust the water during the cooking.
Walnut jujube date soup
This soup is great for the brain function
4 Oz medium grain rice
0.5 oz walnut
O,5 oz jujube date
Wash all three ingredients
Soak the rice for 30 minutes
Add rice and walnut with 4 cups of cold water
Cook over high heat until boiling
Add jujube date, cook over low heat for 45 minutes
Sweeten
Ginger Jujube soup
0.2 Oz Ginger slices
0.6 Oz dried jujube dates
1 oz brown sugar or black sugar
This is an excellent drink for the cold day. It is also good for the relief of Dysmenorrhea symptom in winter.
Wash date thorough,
1. Slice ginger
2. Add all three ingredients in 2 cups of water
3. Cook over high heat until boiling
4. Turn down the heat, continue cook 10 minutes
5. Drink the soup
Luo Han Guo, the fruit of Siraitia Grosvenori, is native to southwestern China. It has been used in traditional Chinese medicine for the treatment of lung congestion, colds, and sore throats, and gastrointestinal disorder. It is considered by the locals to be a longevity aid.
Besides its medicinal purposes, it has also been used as a sugar substitute. The unique chemical components of this sweetener in Luo Han Guo are triterpene glycosides, known as mogrosides. Mogroside is 300 times sweeter than cane sugar and is extremely low in calories. Due to its low caloric attributes, Luo han Kuo extract has been used used as a sweetener in beverages and cooked food. It is a stable, non-fermentable additive ideal for diabetics.
Luo Han Guo products are usually available as extracts and dried fruits. You may find both forms at piermall.com
Luo Han Guo Beverage @ piermall.com
This dissolving block of extract can help you feel cool and relaxing as it moistures the throat and lung, reduces the chronic cough.
Luo Han Guo Dried Fruit @ piermall.com
Below recipe was adopted from www.healthy-chinese-recipe.com. Thank you.
Ingredients:
2 Luo Hang Guo
1 cups water
Procedure
1. Clean Luo Han Guo. Crush into small pieces. Put in a teapot,add water.
2. Bring to a boil, turn to low heat, continue to cook 10mins.Turn off heat.
3. After finishing drinking, add additional water, repeat cooking 3-5 times.
Luo Han Guo Tea – Diabetes Recipes
Serving Method
Serve as tea. Serve whenever you want to drink. At least drink one cup in the morning and in the afternoon.
Beneficial Function
To moisten the lung and relieve cough. To reduce blood sugar and blood pressure. Suitable for diabetes caused by depletion-thirst in lung and stomach, especially those who have complication of hypertension.
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Today, I encountered an inquiry from one of our customers. He bought a bag of Japanese seaweed snack
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and a bag of Korean Seaweed snack
Both are great stuffs…. for us. However, it doesn’t seem so for this customer, who was new to the seaweed. After devouring the super crispy Korean seaweed, he found the taste of Japanese seaweed is quite dull and thought it was stale.
The truth is, the Japanese seaweed snack is just as fresh as the Korean seaweed snack. The difference in the taste was due to how the seaweed snack was made by Korean or Japanese.
Korean style seaweed snack are usually seasoned and roasted in sesame oil (most of the time). You can do one experiment. Use a fine tissue, or simply use your finger to rub the Korean seaweed gently, you will see/feel the oil on the tissue or your finger.
Because the Korean seaweed has been roasted in oil, it is very crispy and it stays that way very long. Japanese seaweed, on the other hand, is not added with any oil. They are simply seasoned and dried roasted, just like the seaweed nori used for sushi making. The Japanese seaweed snack is not very crispy. It gains some degree of crispy from being very dried, but you will never have a Japanese seaweed snack or nori sheet as crispy as Korean ones.
Because it is not oiled, many new comers to seaweed snacks might find the Korean seaweed is more attractive than the Japanese one.
Nevertheless, after enjoying the Korean seaweed for a while, you might find the mild, “plainer” Japanese seaweed to be just as enjoyable. You can use it to roll the rice, meat, sprinkle over the noodle, soup or eat out of packets. Many many ways to enjoy. At 4 calories per 12 strips, you don’t have to worry too much on how much calories you are taking in.
Just like Fried Chicken, it tastes great, but one day you might find a grilled Chicken to be just as tasty as the fried one……..
We love all different kinds of seaweed snack. PierMall.com carries
4 different seaweed snacks:
 Korean Seaweed - Low salt - 3 bags |
 Korean Seaweed Snack - Green Tea |
 Original Korean Seaweed - 1 case |
Japanese seaweed snack (light spicy)- Value pack available
PierMall.com also carry many different seaweed nori for sushi:
 50 sheets seaweed nori +1 Sushi Mat (product of China) |
 Seaweed Nori for Sushi (China) |
 Seaweed Nori for Sushi (Japan) |
There are many types available, available in single bag or value pack. Search for “Seaweed”
The Metropolitan Home’s Weekend Kitchen recipe – Black sugar magic is calling our Okinawa black sugar brick (also sold at our store at Amazon webstore). You can also find at our own online store: PierMall.com for better pricing. The original recipe can be found at Metropolitan Home . Download recipe PDF file here
The newest batch of Okinawa black sugar brick just arrived in US. Very fresh and moisture.
Upon opening the bag, use a kitchen or steak knife to break the sugar into smaller pieces and store in air tight container. It is easier to break the sugar when it is freshly opened.
Before you use up all the black sugar, give it a try to eat a piece of sugar. You would be surprise at the rich flavor the sugar offers!
Shinobi came back from his summer camp and was excited: they made the chocolate ice cream in a bag! So we had to reproduce his project at home. We modified his ingredients, since we don’t have any chocolate syrup at home. We made two bags: green tea ice cream and mint chocolate ice cream. Here are the recipes and what we did:
