asian parents... what do you feed your toddlers?

[Anonymous]

If you feed your toddler Chinese, Japanese, or Korean food, can you share some not too complicated meal ideas? Not need to share recipe unless you have links off the top of your head - I can look them up. We are a mixed family and predominantly cooked asian food (Chinese, Korean, and Japanese) before having children. Our toddler is entering a picky period and I'm running out of simple dinner ideas. I'm curious what other asian families feed their toddler aged children. If they eat what you eat, can you share dishes that your toddler loves?

Thank you!

[Anonymous]

Rice, kimchi cut up pretty small, avocado and cucumber sesame salad

Lots of sushi starting at age 3

Tempura

Dumplings of all kinds

Congee- a big favorite

Most soups just serve with rice

Galbi with rice- they would eat this every single day if they could

[Anonymous]

Japanese here. Salads with seaweed cucumber and carrot, easy on the vinegar. Sushi, starting with vegetarian tolls. Various iterations of ochazuke (rice soup). Curries with all sorts of meat and veggies. I couldn't do rice with one kid suffering from chronic constipation, he had a more western diet with breaded products. I had to do rice with the other who always had the runs. Sigh.

[Anonymous]

Miso soup with anything (soft boiled veg, egg, tofu) with rice was our default but my kids basically ate anything with us adults as long as it was not spicy and cut up small enough .

Favorite snack was (and still is) nori!

[Anonymous]

I have a very picky 3 year old who surprisingly loves dried seaweed. I think it’s because she likes salty food. She also like litchis. Sadly, she refuses to eat bibimbap even though this is one of her favorite books:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0547076711?psc=1&ref=ppx_pop_mob_b_asin_title

[Anonymous]

Love @happy_baes and her kid-friendly Korean recipes. She’s local too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Rice, kimchi cut up pretty small, avocado and cucumber sesame salad

Lots of sushi starting at age 3

Tempura

Dumplings of all kinds

Congee- a big favorite

Most soups just serve with rice

Galbi with rice- they would eat this every single day if they could

Thanks! How do you do the galbi with rice? Do you cut it up into small pieces and mix it with rice? Or just put a portion of it next to rice? I'm pretty sure my toddler likes the taste of galbi, but he has become very picky with meat in general if he sees it on his plate. He'll cry and tell me he doesnt want it, but if he's not paying attention and I sneak a piece into his mouth he will happily swallow it....

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Rice, kimchi cut up pretty small, avocado and cucumber sesame salad

Lots of sushi starting at age 3

Tempura

Dumplings of all kinds

Congee- a big favorite

Most soups just serve with rice

Galbi with rice- they would eat this every single day if they could

What kind of sushi? Do you make it yourself?

Thanks! How do you do the galbi with rice? Do you cut it up into small pieces and mix it with rice? Or just put a portion of it next to rice? I'm pretty sure my toddler likes the taste of galbi, but he has become very picky with meat in general if he sees it on his plate. He'll cry and tell me he doesnt want it, but if he's not paying attention and I sneak a piece into his mouth he will happily swallow it....

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Rice, kimchi cut up pretty small, avocado and cucumber sesame salad

Lots of sushi starting at age 3

Tempura

Dumplings of all kinds

Congee- a big favorite

Most soups just serve with rice

Galbi with rice- they would eat this every single day if they could

what do you put in the sushi and do you make it yourself?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Miso soup with anything (soft boiled veg, egg, tofu) with rice was our default but my kids basically ate anything with us adults as long as it was not spicy and cut up small enough .

Favorite snack was (and still is) nori!

Did they eat the contents of miso soup as well? DC loves miso soup and asks for it frequently, but refuses to eat anything in it - seaweed, scallions, any kind of vegetables i've put in - he cries for me to pick out the solid and then will slurp tons of the soup.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Miso soup with anything (soft boiled veg, egg, tofu) with rice was our default but my kids basically ate anything with us adults as long as it was not spicy and cut up small enough .

Favorite snack was (and still is) nori!

Did they eat the contents of miso soup as well? DC loves miso soup and asks for it frequently, but refuses to eat anything in it - seaweed, scallions, any kind of vegetables i've put in - he cries for me to pick out the solid and then will slurp tons of the soup.

Because he needs the salt, apparently.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Love @happy_baes and her kid-friendly Korean recipes. She’s local too.

thank you - I will check this out!

[Anonymous]

I haven’t seen eggs mentioned.

You can wash kimchi off to make it less spicy.

[Anonymous]

I have a toddler and a preschooler; they’re not overly picky but have their fair share of days where they just refuse certain foods. Neither is very fond of meat so we mostly avoid that. Things we like:

Japanese style curry with chickpeas or tofu
Onigiri (plain rice or only with furikake; they won’t eat fillings)
Tea eggs
Oyakodon (sometimes)
Yakisoba (shrimp sometimes; never if I make it with meat)
Pan-friend shrimp with peanut sauce and fresh vegetables
Most Chinese bakery staples (milk bread makes everything better)
Steamed dumplings like gyoza and shumai
Soups (miso, ramen or hot udon) with an egg poached in the broth
Senbe for snacks
Mugicha for drinks

Restaurant food they love that I don’t cook at home:
Tempura
Sushi
Dim sum

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I haven’t seen eggs mentioned.

You can wash kimchi off to make it less spicy.

I would be careful with kimchi. After reading in the health forum about adults who choked on lettuce and chicken skin, I stopped letting my kids eat things that could form a flap over their windpipe.