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Kung Pao Chicken (Gong Bao Ji Ding)

  A classic Sichuan dish featuring tender chicken cubes, crunchy peanuts, and a bold, spicy-sweet sauce. 📋 Ingredients Chicken & Marinade: 300g (10 oz) boneless chicken breast or thigh (cut into 1.5 cm cubes) 1 tablespoon light soy sauce 1 teaspoon Shaoxing wine (or dry sherry) 1 teaspoon cornstarch 1/2 teaspoon sesame oil Sauce: 1.5 tablespoons light soy sauce 1 tablespoon dark soy sauce 1 tablespoon Chinese black vinegar (or rice vinegar) 1 tablespoon sugar 2 tablespoons water 1 teaspoon cornstarch Stir-fry: 2 tablespoons vegetable oil 3–4 dried red chili peppers (cut into sections, deseeded if preferred) 1 teaspoon Sichuan peppercorns (optional, for numbing aroma) 2–3 garlic cloves (minced) 1 small piece of ginger (minced) 2 spring onions (white parts chopped into 1-inch sections) Other: 50g (about 1/3 cup) roasted or fried unsalted peanuts 🍳 Instructions 1. Marinate the Chicken In a bowl, combine the d...

Chinese Braised Pork with Vermicelli (Zhūròu dùn fěntiáo)

A savory northern classic that brings rich pork flavor and silky vermicelli together in a single pot. Main: 500g (about 1 lb) pork belly (with skin) 100g dried sweet potato vermicelli (or mung bean noodles) Aromatics: 4–5 slices of ginger 4 cloves garlic (smashed) 2 green onions (cut into sections) Seasonings: 1 tablespoon cooking wine 2 tablespoons light soy sauce 1 tablespoon dark soy sauce 1 tablespoon oyster sauce 1 teaspoon sugar (rock sugar preferred) Salt to taste Optional: a small piece of star anise or a bay leaf for added aroma Oil: 1 tablespoon vegetable oil practice: 1. Prepare the Pork Cut pork belly into bite-sized cubes. Blanch in boiling water for 2–3 minutes to remove impurities. Rinse with warm water and set aside. 2. Soak the Vermicelli Soak dried vermicelli in warm water for 20–30 minutes until soft. Drain and set aside. 3. Sauté Aromatics Heat oil in a wok or large pot. Add ginger, garl...

Stir Fried Fish Bladder with Pickled Pepper

 Everywhere in the world has its own food culture. Chinese food, however, stands out from the rest. What others don't eat, the Chinese eat. What others don't think of, the Chinese eat. This magical country can always bring to the table foods that you would never think of. For example, fish bladder. I'm sure many people don't know that swim bladder can be eaten. Today, I am going to share with you a traditional Chinese dish: Fried Fish Bladder with Pickled Peppers. To make this dish, you need to prepare: Fresh swim bladder, suitable amount.   Soy sauce, oyster sauce, salt, chicken essence, pepper, white wine, green onion, ginger, garlic, millet chilli, pickled pepper, moderate amount. Practice: 1, first prepare some fresh fish bubbles, and then put into the water to clean, and then use a toothpick or knife to all give it a puncture, the inside of the gas release. 2, handle the fish bubble cold water in a pot, add onion and ginger white wine or cooking wine blanch for 2 m...

chili pepper with tiger skin

 Everyone thinks meat is delicious. But eating meat every day makes anyone feel tired. This time we need to change the taste, eat some vegetarian dishes. Today we bring this dish: tiger skin sharp pepper. Ingredients to be prepared: Peppers, 5 Soya sauce, moderate Salt, according to their own taste moderate add Sugar, 2g Vinegar, 2 spoons Minced garlic, moderate Cooking oil, a little. Practice: 1: Wash the sharp peppers and cut off the root. Use a small knife to scoop out the seeds and tendons from the inside of the sharp peppers. 2: Cut the sharp pepper in half. Dry the water. 3: Put a moderate amount of oil in a pan over medium-low heat, place the peppers in the pan, and press and turn them over with a spatula from time to time.      Make both sides of the sharp pepper evenly heated, fry the tiger skin. Then set aside. 4: Mix the bowl of sauce. Add 1 tbsp of soy sauce, 2g of salt, 1 tbsp of sugar and 2 tbsp of vinegar to the bowl. 5: Heat the oil in a hot pan, add ...

Garlic Spinach

 Why have you been very obese? It's because you eat too much high protein food like chicken nuggets. In fact, we should eat more green vegetables. Not only healthy, but also not easy to be obese. Today we share a traditional Chinese dish: spinach with garlic. Ingredients to prepare: Spinach, 500g Salt, moderate Carrot, 1 Garlic, the more the better Cooking oil, 20g Soy sauce, moderate Method: 1: Spinach, carrot, after washing, cut into sections, garlic minced 2: Put them into a pot and run them through boiling water. 3:Burn oil in a pan, add minced garlic and stir-fry. 4: Add carrot and spinach and stir fry well. 5: Add soy sauce, salt, stir fry evenly. So far: a simple and healthy garlic spinach is finished.

Cold Pork Liver for Drinking

 Another old saying in China: Good wine goes with good food, and good food goes with good wine! To some extent, you can also improve your drinking capacity by making a good wine dish! Today I'd like to share with you a Chinese Golden Classical Drinking Dish: Pork Liver in Cold Sauce! Ingredients to prepare: 1 pork liver 5-6 small onions 6-7 slices of ginger 2-3 star anise 1-2 tablespoons of cooking wine 1 tablespoon of scallions 1 tablespoon of garlic 1 tablespoon of white sesame 2 tablespoons of chili pepper 2 tablespoons of soy sauce 1 tablespoon of vinegar Salt, as appropriate 1 tablespoon of oyster sauce ½ tablespoon of sugar ½ tablespoon of pepper 1 tablespoon of peppercorn oil 1 tablespoon of sesame oil 1 tablespoon of red oil chillies Practice: 1: Put small onions, ginger, cooking wine, star anise, pork liver in cold water and cook until the liver is just cooked. About ten minutes. 2: Put the cooked pork liver in cool water to cool down. 3: Cut into thin slices as in ...

A particularly simple Chinese cold dish

Some people say that Chinese people are not of high quality, this I admit. But some people say that Chinese food is not good, this I disagree. Chinese people still have their own way of doing things when it comes to food. We can use very simple ingredients to make very tasty food. For example, you can make a simple but very tasty cold dish with spring onions and tofu. Ingredients for tofu with spring onions: Tofu 1 piece of small onion moderate amount Salt moderate amount Sesame sesame oil moderate amount (about 5g) Method: 1: Wash the tofu; small onions, wash and drain; 2: tofu into a bowl, crushed with a spoon, there are small cubes does not matter, eat better texture; 3: small onion minced, about 5 mm wide; 4: small onions into the tofu, according to taste sprinkle a little salt; 5: and then drizzle a little sesame sesame oil, sesame sesame sesame oil is the finishing touch to this dish, do not add on the bland and tasteless; mix well. Warm tips: this dish for the wine dishes. With ...

The Divine Way to Eat Instant Noodles

 Instant noodles a kind of instant food product is popular all over the world. Generally speaking, we eat instant noodles like this: And in China, we eat instant noodles like this: Here's a tutorial to share this Instant Noodle Divine Eating: Ingredients: Fatty and lean pork                   100g  Bean curd                                      300g  Instant noodles                           2  packets  Onion, ginger, garlic                  moderate  Soya sauce, salt,                         moderate  Octagon, peppercorns             moderate Practice: 1: pork shredded, (do not cut too fine), ...

“Buddha Jumps Over the Wall,” also known as “Buddha’s Temptation”

 Buddha jumps over the wall, a traditional Chinese dish. It originated during the Daoguang period of the Qing Dynasty in China, which is equivalent to the period of President Monroe in the United States. Legend has it that in Fuzhou during the Daoguang period of China's Qing Dynasty, some people had to go begging every day in order to make a living. One day, a few beggars had a sudden idea, will be begging from the hands of the rich abalone, sea cucumber, and other ingredients, and so on, all mixed together into a wine jar. All of them were mixed together and put into the wine altar, sealed with lotus leaves, and then slowly stewed for 5 to 6 hours with low fire. This unique way of cooking allows the flavours of the various foods to permeate each other and taste great! It so happened that the place where these beggars made this food was in the corner of a temple. And a monk in the temple, smelling the aroma of this dish through the wall. As much as possible can not help but jump ou...

A Unique Taste: Beijing Lu Zhu Stew

 Legend has it that many years ago in China, due to poverty, ordinary people could not afford to eat pork, and had to buy pig's jellied meat at a low price, which the rich people could not afford to eat, in order to fill their stomachs. After a long time of cooking experience, the pig's jowl, which was once a thing that the rich people could not afford to eat, turned into a superb Chinese speciality ------ Beijing Lo Mein. Beijing Marinated Cooking Practice: A payload of pig intestines, remove the mucus with vinegar and flour, rubbing and cleaning constantly Flour the intestines over, clean excess fat, fat according to their own taste to leave some. Do authentic old Beijing brine cooking, you can omit this step. Pork lungs a payment, cleaning blood foam, it is best to use a hose against the windpipe cleaning, washed until the white Cut the pig lungs into large pieces, like pig lungs chewy leave the trachea, etc. with boiling water add: cooking wine, onion and ginger, etc. to th...

A Chinese Hot Pot with Flavour ---- Beef Bean Hot Pot

 Legend has it that a long time ago,  a Chinese man in Guizhou often diarrhoea, stomach pain, around for medicine to eat a lot but not effective, he saw the cattle and sheep to eat all kinds of strong body, they try to eat the cattle, eat a few times, diarrhoea on the good. Things spread, we began to follow suit, and gradually improve the production process, and constantly add spices.  From then on, this dietary habit has been passed down from generation to generation, and every New Year's Eve, we kill cows and sheep to eat yakiniku, and as a delicacy to entertain our guests. Specialities: Before the hot pot base is cooked, it smells faintly of rotting grass, and then the beef and beef mince is poured into the hot pot, just like Chongqing people eat soup pot, but there is a little bit of cow dung flavour when it is cooked.  It tasted like medicine and was a little bitter.  Although you can make your own dipping saucer, you still can't overpower that flavour, and...