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Shrimp Ball Fu Yong (Fu Rong Xia Qiu)
January 09, 2006 EST | Food & Drink
There are many ways to cook the "Fu Rong" of the Shrimp Ball Fu Rong dish in different places. People generally use the traditional cooking methods from Beijing and Jiangsu cuisines which is well known for being fastidious about making...
Sauted Eggs with Pork (Mu Xu Rou)
December 28, 2005 EST | Food & Drink
Mu Xu Pork is a kind of dish served by rolling it into very thin pancakes (Mu Xu pancakes) after frying eggs, pork and other Chinese vegetables. This is a very tasty Northern dish in China and favored by most...
Braised Assorted Vegetables (Luo Han Zhai)
December 27, 2005 EST | Food & Drink
"Luo Han Zhai" (Luo Han means arhat in Buddhism) has become a regular vegetable dish on every Guangzhou family's dinner table since it served as the "food for monks" in Song dynasty. Not only does it carry the delicate fragrance...
He Bao Eggs (Small Bag Eggs)
December 26, 2005 EST | Food & Drink
He Bao egg - or small bag egg, must look like a small bag or wallet just as its name implies. Of course, it is not like the wallet we have today. It is referred as the kind of bag...
Ma Po Tou Fu
September 06, 2005 EST | Food & Drink
By Jacklyn Chen Ma Po Tou Fu is Sichuan's well known characteristic dish. Tradition has it that during the Tongzhi years of Qing Dynasty, there is a small inn at the WanFu (Innumerable Blessings) bridge outside the north gate of...
Sauted Family Bean Curd
September 05, 2005 EST | Food & Drink
By Jacklyn Chen Family bean curd is Sichuan's famous characteristic dish. Its main ingredient is bean curd. Bean curd began in Xi (West) Han Dynasty, became widely spread in Bei (North) Song Dynasty, and it is one of the Chinese...
Chinese Cooking: Sauces & Spices
August 06, 2005 EST | Food & Drink
By Jacklyn Chen Sauces Bean Curd Sauce (Dou Fu Ru): Fermented bean curd, rish in proteins. May be kept for fairly long time. Comes in two types - red and white. Red is typically used to cook Braised Pork. White...
Chinese Cooking Utensils
August 06, 2005 EST | Food & Drink
By Jacklyn Chen There are quite a few traditional utensils that have been used in cooking for thousands of years in China. Some of them are still seen in most of families, some can only be seen in rural areas,...
Chinese cooking: Special ingredients
July 30, 2005 EST | Food & Drink
By Jacklyn Chen I have briefly introduced two most classic and expensive Chinese cooking ingredients (shark fins and bird's nest) in my previous article. Here I'll continue to introduce some other special ingredients that are more regularly used in our...
Special ingredients - Shark Fins & Bird's Nest
July 28, 2005 EST | Food & Drink
By Jacklyn Chen There are wide variety of ingredients in Chinese cooking. The ingredients that we normally see can be divided into two major kinds: vegetable and animal. Vegetable ingredients can be further divided into vegetables, beans, fresh fruits, dried...
Cucumber & Pork Soup
July 23, 2005 EST | Food & Drink
By Jacklyn Chen Due to the fact that cucumber is rich in all kinds of vitamins as well as calcium, phosphorus, iron, and many other minerals, it is one of the essential vegetables that we cannot live without at our...
Sweet & Sour Pork (Gu Lao Rou)
July 23, 2005 EST | Food & Drink
By Jacklyn Chen Sweet & Sour Pork is the most well known Chinese food abroad. According to a Cantonese chef, the primitive or the authentic cooking method of the dish is to add Cantonese pickled vegetables. When cooking, simply sauté...
Braised fish in soy sauce (Hong Shao Yu)
July 22, 2005 EST | Food & Drink
By Jacklyn Chen Braised fish in soy sauce is the basic craft of Chinese dish. The distinguishing characteristics are it looks red and glossy, rich in smell thick in juice. Both sides of the fish slice must be fried to...
Chinese Eight Treasure Rice Pudding
July 21, 2005 EST | Food & Drink
By Jacklyn Chen The eight-treasure rice pudding is a well known traditional Chinese dessert, cooked with sticky rice and 8 different freshly dried fruits (typically called dates here in general) and nuts. This food has been through several thousand years...
Chinese sugar fried chestnuts
July 03, 2005 EST | Food & Drink , Travel
By Jackly Chen Note: You may freely reprint this article as long as the author bio and active links are intact. A email notification of how you use it would be greatly appreciated. The "Liang Xiang" chestnuts are well known....
Sweet & sour fish
June 25, 2005 EST | Food & Drink
By Jacklyn Chen Sweet and sour fish is one of the most popular traditional Chinese dish, normally cooked with carp. The method to cook an authentic Chinese sweet and sour fish (Tang Tsu Yu) is to use what we call...
