If you live in the Bay area and haven't been to Burma Superstar, then you need to change that...STAT. This place is always crowded, granted it is a super small restaurant, but still. I often crave their Samusa Soup, which is a thick spiced broth with potatoes and peas filled fritters and falafels. My mouth is watering just writing about it. We always get the soup and their Tea Leaf Salad. Yes, you heard it right, tea leaves...in your salad. Don't cringe just yet...its not the regular English Breakfast tea leaves. In fact its fermented green tea leaves, which means the tea leaves are steeped in hot water and then blended with spices. It sounds strange but this happens to be their most popular dish. My husband, who doesn't like drinking tea or coffee, actually enjoys eating this salad. I always make him try weird food and I almost always fail to impress. But this tea leaf salad was a winner.
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This is a perfect weekday dinner. It needs minimal prep and doesn’t take that long to cook. Add your favorite veggies and make multiple variations of this stir-fry.
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My hubby requested Indo-Chinese food for dinner. I was going to make noodles and fried rice but I wanted to make something new as well, so tofu lettuce wraps came to mind. I had never made them before and only had them once at P. F. Chang's a few years ago! I went to Whole Foods and picked up butter lettuce, tofu and peanut butter. The peanut butter was probably the best I've ever had! It was the Whole Foods brand (365) peanut butter. So peanuty and so buttery...YUM! Move over Skippy & Jiffy.
Anyway, I came home and just threw some ingredients together and voila...came up with a delicious peanut sauce. Also, butter lettuce is preferred because of its smooth texture. And they're small and cute!
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