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How to Cook a Chinese Dish

Eating Healthy on a Budget with Chinese Home Cooking

Eat Healthy on Budget, Planning a Dinner

The Chinese mastered eating healthy on a budget due to centuries of scarcity. Traditional and home Chinese recipes stretch protein with vegetables to feed a family, while serving a healthy meal especially if paired with brown rice.

Healthy Eating: Rice 100 grams of parboiled and white rice, side by side

Healthy Eating: Rice

Eat Healthy on Budget, Mains & Sides, Rice, Rice Dishes

Is it healthy to eat rice? We compare the nutrient and healthy eating benefits of white, parboiled, and brown rice.

Stir-fried King Oyster Mushrooms with Peppers

Stir-fried King Oyster Mushrooms

Chinese Modern Cuisine, Home Cooking, Mains & Sides, Vegetables

The recipe we are going to make today is a vegetarian dish called Stir-fried King Oyster Mushrooms.  King oyster mushrooms have anti-oxidant, anti-hyperlipidemic, anti-tumor, and anti-inflammatory properties.

2nd year students in Jing's class at New Oriental Cooking School prepare to begin their performance in the school's competition.

Jing’s Cooking Class Competition

About My Chinese Home Kitchen, Jing's Learning Journey

Jing’s cooking class is finishing its second year with an impressive class demonstration, reminiscent of Stomp. This is an impressive show of wok handling skills.

In the end, you'll end up with a perfect serving of shredded chicken.

How to Shred Chicken Breast

Chinese Cooking Techniques, Choose and Prepare Fresh Ingredients, How-to

Cutting meat and vegetables into small, consistently-sized pieces is important when frying (stir-fry, pan-fry, deep-fry) and braising. However, the meticulous cutting is very time-consuming unless you know the techniques. Learn how to shred meat, like chicken breast, quickly.

International Women's Day marks the 2nd Anniversary of My Chinese Home Kitchen

Two Years of My Chinese Home Kitchen

News from My Chinese Home Kitchen

International Women’s Day marks the 2nd anniversary of My Chinese Home Kitchen

Healthy Eating: Steam Cooking

Healthy Eating: Steam Cooking

Chinese Cooking Techniques, Cookware, How-to

Steam cooking is key to eating healthy on a budget. When we began this blog, I thought all Chinese food, except rice, was stir-fried in a wok.
However, the wok is a relatively recent innovation. The oldest forms of cooking in China, and still most common, involve steaming and boiling. While every home owns a wok, steaming and boiling remain essential cooking techniques.

Shredded Chicken with Silver Sprouts

Shredded Chicken with Silver Sprouts

Chinese Modern Cuisine, Jing's Learning Journey, Mains & Sides, Poultry

New Oriental Cooking School will conduct a culinary test for the students, to be evaluated by professional judges. This Shredded Chicken with Silver Sprouts recipe is the first recipe we will use for the exam. 

Learning from Mistakes: Seasoning a wok

Learning from Mistakes: Wok Seasoning

Chinese Cooking Techniques, Cookware

So you have carefully seasoned and cared for your wok, but suddenly find that food is sticking to the bottom. What happened? How do you fix this?

Chinese pork-stuffed peppers

Chinese Pork-stuffed Peppers

Appetizers, Home Cooking, Mains & Sides, Pork, Vegetables

Pork-stuffed peppers serves as a family dinner, or for entertaining friends. It even makes an appearance on tables during Chinese New Year.

Jing's latest Jam Painting

Jing is Back!

About My Chinese Home Kitchen, News from My Chinese Home Kitchen

Jing is back at work with us here at My Chinese Home Kitchen. She sent me the latest sample of her jam painting this morning. She’s working on a delicious stuffed pepper recipe that we will share with you soon.

Backyard Poultry: Fresh eggs at home

Backyard Poultry: Fresh Eggs at Home

Grow Your Own Food, How-to

Though most Westerners are at least two generations or more removed from the farm, it was not long ago that families kept backyard poultry for fresh eggs at home. For country home kitchens in China, keeping chickens and ducks is still common.