Serves 8–10. Preparation & cooking time: 45 mins & cooling time. This very popular Sichuan dish is also known as...
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Serves 10–12 as a starter, or 4–6 as a main course. Preparation & cooking time: about 1 hour & cooling...
The tremendous celebrations on the first of october the date on which China commemorated sixty years since its foundation as...
Serves 10–12 as a starter, or 4–6 as a main course. Preparation & cooking time: 55–60 mins & cooling time....
Serves 4–6. Preparation & cooking time: 10–15 mins 250g (8oz) uncooked and unshelled prawns, headless pinch of salt For the...
Serves 8–12 as a starter, or 4 as a main course. Preparation & cooking time: 25 mins & cooling time....
There is a Chinese proverb which says that if a village wants to get rich，the first thing it must do...
Serves 18–20 as a starter, or 10–12 as a main course. Preparation & cooking time: 1 hour & cooling time....
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...