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How to chop and shred Chinese Lettuce

How to: Chop and Shred Chinese Lettuce

Choose and Prepare Fresh Ingredients, How-to

Chinese Lettuce is also known as Celtuce, stem lettuce, celery lettuce, and asparagus lettuce. Celtuce is one of the easiest and tastiest vegetables to use that you’ll find anywhere. Jing has prepared a video showing how to prepare Chinese lettuce.

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Cantonese Sweet and Sour Pork with Pineapple

Sweet and Sour Pineapple Pork Cantonese

Cantonese Cuisine, Local specialties, Mains & Sides, Pork

Sweet and sour pineapple pork is a Cantonese dish. The secret is to coat the meat in thin batter for frying and then fry it twice, once to set the batter, and once to brown the batter. Sweet green peppers, mild chili peppers, and pineapple make this dish extra special!

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How to Slant Cut Meat

How to Slant Cut Meat

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

Using a slant cut turns a thin piece of meat into wider slices for cooking.

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How-to: roll-cut vegetables

How to Roll-cut Vegetables

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

Use this roll-cut technique to get wedge-shaped vegetables for stir-frying. The wedge shape increases surface area, reducing cooking time.

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Chinese Garlic Cucumber Salad

Garlic Cucumber Salad

Home Cooking, Salads, Vegetables

Garlic Cucumber Salad is such an easy cold dish that anyone with a kitchen knife can make it.

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Chopping pork ribs for braising or frying

Chopping Pork Ribs for Braising or Frying

Choose and Prepare Fresh Ingredients, How-to, Pork

Chinese braised or deep fried ribs are chopped into bite-sized pieces. Chopping pork ribs is quite simple, with a good, sharp knife.

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Cabbage and Egg soup, by Chen Jing

Cabbage and Egg Soup

Chinese Modern Cuisine, Egg, Home Cooking, Soups & Stews

Hey, today we’re going to make a weird dish! Why is it a strange dish? Because it has some ingredients that some people can’t accept. In Cabbage and Egg Soup, we don’t just use chicken eggs. This soup contains fresh chicken eggs, preserved duck eggs, and salted duck eggs. Maybe these eggs sound strange to you, but the soup tastes really delicious.

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Preserved Duck Egg

Chinese Preserved Eggs and Salted Eggs

Authentic Ingredients for Chinese Recipes, Specialty Items

In Chinese kitchens, the most common eggs are chicken eggs and duck eggs. But in some families, there are also some special eggs. We use these special eggs in our egg drop soup with cabbage recipe. These specially prepared eggs are called preserved eggs and salted eggs. Both kinds are made from duck eggs. Do you want to know more about them?

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Megachef Oyster Sauce

Oyster Sauce

Sauces and Oils

After soy sauce, oyster sauce is an essential condiment for flavoring many Chinese dishes. Originally used in Cantonese cuisine, the use of oyster sauce has spread to Shandong, Sichuan, Zheijian and Jiangsu cuisines. The sauce adds a savory or “umami” flavor to dishes. Traditionally, oyster sauce was made by boiling […]

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Baoning vinegar

Baoning Vinegar

Authentic Ingredients for Chinese Recipes, Sauces and Oils, Sichuan Cuisine, Specialty Items

Sichuan Baoning Vinegar and Zhenjiang Vinegar are famous Chinese “black” vinegars made from cereals. Baoning is essential in Sichuan cuisine.

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Professional Style Mapo Tofu, by Chen Jing

Restaurant Style Mapo Tofu

Beef, Mains & Sides, Sichuan Cuisine, Tofu

I learned this dish at New Oriental Cooking School and it turned out to be spicy and delicious compared to our home-style version of Mapo Tofu.

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Shaoxing Wine

Shaoxing Wine

Authentic Ingredients for Chinese Recipes, Sauces and Oils

Shaoxing wine is also called yellow wine. Shaoxing wine is made by fermenting glutinous rice, and it is made in Shaoxing, Zheijiang Province. The wine is well known around the world, and used in many Chinese recipes.

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