The Most Versatile Meat Ba
This most basic Chinese Meat Ball is based on finely chopped Pork. By varying the size and adding other Meats, flavorings and ingredients, as well as varying the shape, you can get a larger version (Lion”s Head) good as a major dish steamed with Cabbage Leaves, some quite small balls that work perfectly as appetizers with drinks, and variations combining with Lamb, Beef and so on. The varieties are endless and they freeze well, so one might Continue reading
Vegetarian Dish
Visual and Taste Appea
Cucumbers Stir-Fried
Cucumbers usually appear in Salads in Western cooking and commonly uncooked. The Chinese cook often treats them as a vegetable, often stir-fried. In this style, they are cooked for about three minutes, and preparation time might be ten minutes total.Zucchini may be cooked the same way. Roll-cutting, that is, rotating the vegetable slightly between slices and cutting on the slight diagonal, increases Continue reading
Chicken Wings and Champagne
Korean Fusion Dish
Korean food used to be just that, but more and more we are seeing Fusion dishes with a Korean inspiration like this one. This Korean-inspired Fusion appetizer matches ingredients like Chinese Shao Xing Wine and Hot Bean Paste to produce a distinctive East-West taste. This is good served warm as a substantial appetizer with a glass of Champagne. Continue reading
Different Approach to he Sweet Potato
Sweet Potatoes are often baked,sometimes steamed and usually on the heavy side. This Chinese approach to the tuber, stir-fried, is light Continue reading
These Go With Drinks
Another Way to Use Five Spice
These tiny Back Ribs dusted with Five Spice powder are perfect as an accompaniment to drinks. Just another way to use this versatile flavoring, still so little-known outside the Rim. Continue reading
Shrimp in Their Shells for Flavor
Shao Xing Meets Ginger Meets Sesame
Sesame Oil
In this Chinese-inspired Fusion prep, cooking the Shrimp in their shells adds flavor and protects the Shrimp flesh from the heat of the Wok.
In Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shrimp is Continue reading
A Sichuan Dish
Black Tea Meets Star Anise Meets Brown Sugar
This dish is adapted from the Sichuan classic Tea-Smoked Duck, substituting Game Hens for the larger bird. It has the intense, robust flavors characteristic of Sichuan, which transfer nicely Continue reading
The Other Important Chicken
Typical Family Cooking
Soy Sauce
This is the other important Chinese Chicken recipe you need. Red-Cooking 紅燒 is the Chinese name for a cooking method that Continue reading
Non-Oily Eggplant Prep
Affinity with Ginger
Asian Eggplants
Eggplant is said to absorb a lot of oil in cooking, which causes many people to steer clear of it. This Chinese way Continue reading
The Most Popular Stir-Fried Dish
As Easy as Cooking Stir-Fried Cabbage
Is this the best recipe for making Stir-Fried Cabage (Chao Bai Cai), or is there a better way? It would be interesting to know if anyone is using another method that works better.
Stir-Fried Cabbage (Chao Bai Cai)
Ingredients:
1 pound Cabbage or Napa Cabbage, washed, well-dried and sliced
2 ounces Pork, such as Pork Chop of Bacon, sliced finely Continue reading