I love Thai cuisine. it is full of different flavours, different styles of cooking and it is often very easy to do yet ranks as one of the classiest cuisines in the world. While you have Thai restaurants around the…
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Tea eggs 茶叶蛋/茶葉蛋 are a Chinese street food. You can either buy it off the street or have it as a snack while sipping tea in a teahouse. The best tea leaves to make tea eggs are red tea. This…
“Braised chicken with forest mushrooms” 小鸡炖蘑菇/小雞炖蘑菇 is one of the signature dishes of the Chinese Dongbei cuisine. Literally translated as “small chicken braised with mushrooms”, the original recipe calls for a young chicken. As with all homefood, there are hundreds of…
English: Cellophane noodles, Chinese vermicelli, Bean threads, Bean thread noodles, Crystal noodles, Glass noodles Mandarin Chinese: Fen Si 粉丝/粉絲 Minnan Chinese (Hokkien): Dang Hoon 冬粉, Sio Hoon 細粉 Cantonese Chinese: Sai Fan 細粉, Fan Si 粉絲 Japanese: Harusame 春雨 Korean:…
Cantonese Chinese: Yi Min, Yi Fu Min 伊麵, 伊府麵 Minnan Chinese: Yi Mi 伊麵 Mandarin Chinese: Yi Mian, Yi Fu Mian 伊面/意面, 伊府面 Some time ago, I introduced Yi Min in the recipe “Cantonese Lobster Noodles 龙虾上汤焖伊面”. I could…
This is my first recipe from Shanghainese cuisine, and I have chosen its most famous dish to start off my posts. Shanghainese cuisine is known as Hu cuisine (沪菜) in China. It is the cuisine that centres around the Jiangnan…
This is a Cantonese classic. It may be difficult to replicate if you cannot find fresh thin egg noodles in your area. Fresh egg noodles taste much like fresh pasta: they have a special texture that cannot be obtained in…
This is another Cantonese dish I am presenting to you. As you have already learnt in this other recipe, the Cantonese are mad about seafood. Another aspect of their cooking is to create a sticky gravy out of the juice…
The Cantonese LOVE traditional claypots or clay casseroles. These are used widely as well in western European cooking, in France they are known as cocotte. These claypots are loved by generations of cooks and continue to be used today due…
Chinese Cantonese, Chinese Hainan/Qiong, Chinese Hokkien/Min, Chinese Northern, Chinese Sichuan, Recipes
“Explosively stir-fried” fish with ginger and spring onions 爆炒姜葱鱼片
I am introducing this dish to you in order to demonstrate a Chinese method of cooking called “Bao Chao” 爆炒. Often, one translates “chao” 炒 as stir-frying but that is only one of the two ways how one stir-fries. Literally…
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