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You may have tried some of the edible fungi popular in Chinese cuisines, such as the Wood Ear (Mu’er 木耳) which I have written about here or the Silver Ear (Yin’er 银耳) which is an important ingredient in a popular Cantonese dessert. If you haven’t tried the Golden Ear (Jin’er 金耳), then you really should!
The ‘wood ear‘ is the name translated directly from Chinese ‘Mu’er 木耳‘ for a group of related edible fungus. Most commonly, this refers to the ‘black wood ear‘ – the Auricularia auricula-judae – which comes from its common English name,…
‘Jiuniang’ 酒酿, also known as ‘Laozao’ 醪糟, is a traditional homemade Chinese sweet rice liquor. Unique to the Han Chinese population, this practise is popular in pure Han communities in central, northern and western parts of China, as well as in migrant Han enclaves such as the Hakkas 客家 in southeastern coastal China and on Taiwan island.
This is another of the nouvelle cuisine of Sichuan that has popped up in the last few decades, together with Shuizhuyü 水煮鱼 and Suancaiyü 酸菜鱼 – both recipes which I have also covered This particular dish showcases the green mastic-leaf prickly ash…
This Sichuan fish dish is a second favourite of mine, right after the Shuizhuyü 水煮鱼 (fish in chili oil). This dish packs such a punch and it is so appetizing, that I guarantee that your guests will come back…
There are about three types of Zanthoxylum pepper used in the Chinese Sichuan region: Sichuan pepper, Majiao and Qinghuajiao. Majiao Chinese: Majiao 麻椒 Latin: Zanthoxylum bungeanum Colour: Brown Majiao is a species of Zanthoxylum closely related to Sichuan pepper (Zanthoxylum…
Chinese cuisine has more than two thousand years of continually recorded history and development. The earliest surviving recipe dates from the Western Han period 西汉 in 200BC. Despite the styles and tastes that developed regionally, there are techniques which have…
If there is a dish that can aptly be branded “appetizing”, it will definitely be THIS dish. It is oily, spicy, smells heavenly, it is flavoursome and salty, full of umami-essence and upon tasting it, your food intake will double!…
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…
Fish in hot chilli oil or “Shui Zhu Yu” (水煮鱼) is the most famous dish of Sichuanese cuisine. A fairly recent invention, it has gained popularity throughout China as the ubiquitous Sichuanese dish. As was mentioned before on this…
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