I love the food from Chinese food Restaurants and would love to know how to cook some of my favorites but have had little success, I've tried some recipes from the net but I guess I'm doin it wrong ? I am a good cook but just haven't got the touch for Chinese Food?
Almond Gai Ding, Chop Sueys, Chow meins...
A simple stir fry sauce for Chicken Almond Gai Ding would be a good start.
Go for the authentic work microwave chinese experience. Steam some cabbage type vegetable, add something stinky then microwave the following day annoying all your coworkers! Serve over rice.
Dog as well is parts of northern China. I worked with a guy from China and he said he used to eat dog there... said it is like lamb and that the meat stinks until you cook it.
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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.
- 1 tbsp chinese cooking wine (I use the brand "Xiao Xing"
- 2 tbsp light soya sauce
- 1 tbsp oyster sauce
- 1 tsp sugar
Cook meats until almost finished and stir in this sauce to finish cooking in wok. Mix 1 tbsp corn starch with water and add to meat in wok when ready to thicken the sauce.
I like to heat a little oil in a wok and add a few slices of ginger root and chopped garlic at the beginning to give some flavours to the base.
- Marinate meat
- Stir fry vegetables until about 70% cooked then remove from heat
- Stir fry meat until about 70% cooked
- Add vegetables to meat
- Finish up by adjusting the flavor and if there needs to be a sauce, use cornstarch mixed with water
People tell me stir fry is easy to do. I have never made good stir fry, so I bought this stir fry sauce from safe way. Boy does that stuff taste rancid. I'm gonna have to give your recipe a shot Hellohockeyfans.
Oh yeah, is there a difference between chinese cooking wine and normal cooking wine/wine? And by wine, is this white wine? red wine?
Chinese cooking wine is not western grape wine. It's distilled alcohol from rice wine, water, and salt. Used to marinate drunken chicken or burned off in high heat stir frying. In a pinch, you can substitute a dry white with salt or diluted vodka with salt.
People tell me stir fry is easy to do. I have never made good stir fry, so I bought this stir fry sauce from safe way. Boy does that stuff taste rancid. I'm gonna have to give your recipe a shot Hellohockeyfans.
Stir-frying is a method of cooking....not a signle recipe per se. You can stir fry anything and everything and make it taste however you like using whatever flavors and ingredients.
Prepared 'stir-fry' sauces are usually highly sugared junk. You're better off Googling and make your own using soy sauce etc.
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