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Chinese Cuisine
This is the very first item a Chinese cook prepares when starting work in the kitchen each day. It is...
The most commonly used oil in Chinese restaurants is a blended vegetable oil that is sold in a 20 litre...
Marinating the raw ingredient with basic seasonings (salt, pepper, sugar, soy sauce, vinegar, wine, oil, cornflour, etc) creates a basic...
A dish is usually made up of more than one ingredient – in the few exceptions when only a single...
Batters and Thickening Agent Batters are used to coat ingredients before cooking. They help the food to retain freshness, flavour...
When describing the harmonious blending of colours, aromas, flavours, shapes and textures in the principles of Chinese cooking (see page...
Because of some kind of "uniqueness"which distinguishes Chinese food from the Western world. Such a bold statement requires further qualification:...
The iron-plate sizzled dish is a Chinese version of the Japanese Teppanyaki or sukiyaki. In Japan and Japanese restaurants in...
Made of earthenware (hence the name sand-pot), casseroles as cooking utensils must have preceded metal ones by many thousands of...
You may well wonder whether chopsticks are essential for Chinese cooking: the answer is yes and no! Basically, there are...
Some wok sets consist of a pair of stirrers in the shape of a spatula and a ladle, made of...
The Chinese cooking utensil known as the wok derives its name from theCantonese for ‘pot’ or ‘pan’; the correct transliteration...
The traditional Chinese chopping block is a cross-section of a tree trunk. Made of hardwood, they range from about 25cm...
A Chinese cleaver may appear to the uninitiated to be hefty and ominously sharp. But in reality it is quite...
The Chinese batterie de cuisine consists of very few basic implements: it is said that an itinerant Chinese chef carries...
You must have wondered, when visiting a Chinese restaurant, how it is that you never have to wait long before...
INTRODUCTION A certain ‘uniqueness’ distinguishes Chinese cooking from all other food cultures – perhaps with the exception of South-East Asia...
If you have always wanted to try cooking Chinese food at home, but have been put off by the daunting...
China is an ancient country with profound tradition of "spirits culture", and there are countless stories about spirits from ancient...