For real chinese food taste you need real "wok hei".
What this means is a good large wok where the sloped sides are places where you can push food up the edges to sit and cool down and where the center is blisteringly hot. It's all about very high heat that you almost need a gas stove for as element stoves don't work very well. You cook different portions on different parts of the Wok when stir frying. Stir frys don't work that well with regular flat pans and the low heat of many stoves.
If you are having difficulty replicating sauces and flavors, goto T&T Supermarket and they will usually have prepackaged sauces and powders and things like that as well.
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