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Cleaning and preparing crayfish

How to Clean Crayfish

Choose and Prepare Fresh Ingredients, Home Cooking, How-to

June in China is the season for crayfish. People love spicy crayfish and garlic crayfish. So, do you know how to handle and clean crayfish? 

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Mushroom Soup

Fresh Mushroom Soup

Home Cooking, Recipes, Soups & Stews, Vegetables

In China, we like to use freshness to evaluate a soup. This simple mushroom soup recipe is an easy way to experience this concept. By freshness, we mean the flavor of the ingredients creating the flavor of the soup.

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Jing, Self-portrait in Chef's uniform

“Mysterious” Milk-White Soup Base

Chinese Cooking Techniques, Chinese Modern Cuisine, How-to, Jing's Learning Journey, Soups & Stews

Have you ever entered the back kitchen of a quality hotel or restaurant: do you know how Chinese chefs cook? Do you know how they cook delicious, authentic Chinese cuisine? Today we will dive into one of the mysteries of professional Chinese cooking.

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Stir hot oil into the chili powder to make chili oil

Aromatic Chinese Chili Oil

Authentic Ingredients for Chinese Recipes, Chinese Chili Peppers, Sauces and Oils

The aromatic Chinese chili oil we will make today is very simple and easy to make in at hone, and brings great flavor to Chinese cold dishes.

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Milk tea and mala tang

My Children’s Day, 2022

China, Chinese Culture, Festivals and Holidays

Children’s Day falls on 1 June. In China we say “men are teenagers until the day of death.” This is true of women, too: we are all girls at heart.

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Chinese Celery (nan ling)

Chinese Celery (Nan Ling Celery)

Authentic Ingredients for Chinese Recipes, Chinese Vegetables

Chinese celery, or Nan Ling Celery (Simplified Chinese: 旱芹, Pinyin: Hàn qín) is smaller, tougher, and more pungent in flavor compared to its Western cousin. As such, Chinese celery is rarely eaten raw, but commonly used in stir-fries and soups. Also called leaf celery, the shorter, smaller stalks of Chinese […]

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douchi (fermented soybean)

Douchi (fermented black beans)

Authentic Ingredients for Chinese Recipes, Specialty Items

Douchi (fermented black beans) are commonly used in Cantonese and Sichuan recipes. Sichuan douchi is fermented, Cantonese douchi is salted.

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Jing's Southern Chinese Egg Fried Rice

Southern Chinese Egg Fried Rice

Cantonese Cuisine, Egg, Home Cooking, Rice Dishes

In China, the staple food of southerners is rice. Often there is rice left over after a family meal. In a society that may face food shortages, we need to cherish every meal. Let’s put the leftover rice to good use and make a delicious Southern Chinese egg fried rice dish for the family!

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Ingredients for Chinese Hot and Sour Shredded Potatoes

Chinese Recipes for Summer Days

Appetizers, Dessert, Home Cooking, Local specialties, Recipes, Salads

Who likes to spend a summer day cooking over a hot stove? Chinese summers can get hot, and in the south, humid too. With gardens producing fresh vegetables, rich with nutrients, cold dishes are popular in the warm season. So here is a roundup of our Chinese recipes for summer days.

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The individuality of home cooked meals remind us of love, family, and hometown roots

My Favorite Lunch

About My Chinese Home Kitchen, Chinese Culture, Chinese family customs, Jing's Learning Journey

Today, my friend’s grandfather cooked my favorite lunch. Chinese people often say: “there is someone’s taste in the dish”: referring to the warmth of home meals and the special flavor that only a certain person can make.

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Cold Shredded Chicken Salad

Cold Shredded Chicken Salad

Home Cooking, Poultry, Salads

Today we will use chicken breast as the main ingredient again, and present it to you in a new way of cooking, which is the best cold mix cooking for summer. We have a lot of recipes for cold mixed vegetable salads, and today we have a delicious Chinese cold shredded chicken salad recipe! 

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Pork Fried Rice

Pork Fried Rice

American-Chinese Takeout, Home Cooking, Mains & Sides, Pork, Rice Dishes

Fried Rice is a popular way to reheat leftover cooked rice in China, but this pork fried rice recipe is really American-Chinese takeout. We normally only offer authentic Chinese home recipes, but occasionally, but Pork fried rice happens to be one of my favorite comfort foods, so we have included it here.

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