Member Since:
May 2006
Cooking Level:
Expert
Cooking Interests:
Baking, Grilling & BBQ, Frying, Stir Frying, Slow Cooking, Asian, Mexican, Italian, Southern, Healthy, Dessert
Hobbies:
Music, Charity Work
I am a student at Rutgers Engineering School studying Mechanical Engineering. I love cars(preferably japanese), clothes(nike labels, ralph lauren labels), and computer hardware. I love watching anime and reading manga. I love music(japanese, underground rap, some mainstream rap, jazz, classical). I love to play video games(preferably PC). My three skills that I would like to continue to get better at in my life are Cuisine, Martial Arts, and Breaking/Popping/Locking. The most important thing in my life is Jesus Christ and the holy bible. Then comes my family and friends, and lastly my education.
My favorite things to cook
I love Buffalo Wings PERIOD. I want to make my own sauce, I want to make the blue Cheese Dip, I just love Buffalo wings. Other than that I love cooking Italian and Southern foods. My favorite style of cooking is the Grill/BBQ, nothing is better. I enjoy baking, it's actually something I just started this year. I also enjoy cooking Asian & Mexican cuisines. The most important thing I do when I cook is that I make sure I balance the food out so there is a balance of meats, veggies, and carbs. Eating balanced is eating healthy!
My favorite family cooking traditions
My family is Chinese. The men in the Tang family are all great chefs. We acutally own a Chinese Restaurant. The men in the family are usually always known to be better cooks than the wives, so I got to make sure that is the same in when I'm married and in my house. My family loves cooking Chinese food, all the traditional foods. It's very hard to mimic the cooking because there really is no easy direction to follow. It's alot of things that go with Chinese traditional cooking. You kind of need to grow up eating the food to know that what you are doing is right. It's very hard to just go in the kitchen one day without a backround in the flavor and just pick up a wok and throw down. I'm still learning as my father teaches me. Although I don't really like Chinese food that much. It's still very good, but I just prefer to learn more on the Italian and the Down South menu.
My cooking triumphs
The first wings I ever made were so good, my dad that claims that doesn't like American foods and "hates" buffalo wings, paused and said this is dag on tasty in Chinese. The first cake I baked which was a few weeks ago came out like a professional made it. It was my first cake, a going away party, but I made it for someone very special to me since she was going to China over the summer so I worked uber hard on it. It was a vanilla cream frosting with bananna cream filling on two yellow cakes. Everyone went banannas when they ate it. My first dessert was Bananna Cream Pudding, which acutally wasn't my own recipe it was from a family member in the ministry that I grabbed cause it was just so banging, but I copied it and added more zing to it and turned out amazing.
My cooking tragedies
I've never had a tragedy so far and I plan to keep it that way. I'm very intricate when it comes to cooking. I must have everything I need around me before I even begin to cook and I plan out my strategy about 3 times before I begin to move. Cooking is like really serious to me. The way I think about cooking is it's like war, you have to plan the best strategy than you have to carry out that strategy perfectly to get the best outcome.