Chinese recipes

**Margaret Lo** · 02-03-2006, 14:10

Originally Posted by Yang Wei Xin

My favorite dishes (recipes please)

Hot and Sour soup
Mongolian Beef
Beef w/Brocolli
Hunan Chicken
Paper wrapped chicken
Sesame Chicken
Tomato Beef
Manchurian Beef

Hot and sour soup is the most important, i won't eat at a chinese restaurant that doesn't make this well.

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Enjoy Chinese Cuisine (Quick and Easy Series)

FROM THE PUBLISHER
Quick & Easy Enjoy Chinese Cuisine will guide even the most novice cook through the necessary techniques for preparing these delicious, easy-to-follow recipes-all of the recipes have been developed and tested in Chinese cooking classes. Additionally, this accessible volume includes some of the authors personal favorites, which have been handed down in her family for generations.
With recipes that are inexpensive and use readily available ingredients, step-by-step color photographs for each recipe, suggestions for substitutions, and a unique menu chart, Quick & Easy Enjoy Chinese Cuisine makes Chinese cooking both simple and enjoyable.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Judy Lew lives in Seattle and is the Director of the Uwajimaya Cooking School. She is well known for her cooking classes and her appearances on local radio and television programs.

FROM THE CRITICS
KLIATT - Shirley Reis
This is a great book for beginning cooks who want to learn the basics of Chinese cooking. Every recipe is accompanied by several color illustrations that show exactly how to prepare the dishes in exquisite detail. All recipes feature ingredients readily available in grocery stores. Sample recipes: Fried Won Ton, Hot & Sour Soup, Fried Rice, Seafood Chow Mein, Almond Breaded Chicken, Black Bean Sauce Spareribs, Stuffed Mushrooms, Prawns with Lobster Sauce. A special section includes metric conversion tables along with cutting and cooking methods in addition to menu planning, customs, basic equipment and a glossary. This book really demystifies Chinese cooking. (Quick and Easy). KLIATT Codes: JSA-Recommended for junior and senior high school students, advanced students, and adults. 2003, Kodansha, 120p. illus. index., Ages 12 to adult.

**fightgrrl** · 02-03-2006, 15:18

But some restaurants have Terrible Hot and Sour soup, and excellent food...luckily my favorite does all things wonderfully!

**Margaret Lo** · 02-03-2006, 15:52

Originally Posted by fightgrrl

But some restaurants have Terrible Hot and Sour soup, and excellent food...luckily my favorite does all things wonderfully!

Probably the soup is bad because hot and sour is not a cantonese dish. I think it originates from Sichuan or Hunan or both. Hot spicy is rare in cantonese food and most of the best restaurants in the US are cantonese which emphasizes freshness, delicate tastes and lots of sea food.

Since Szechuan alone is the size of France the regional cuisines of China are very different from each other. Shanghainese tends to be oily, starchy, a lot of red cooked pork, good river fish, braised eel etc...

If the restaurant is authentic (actual Chinese people eat actual Chinese food there) they often serve up a house soup - usually a clear broth from pork bones with little bits of bone and maybe some lotus root, to start you off. But they won't give it to you if you're not Chinese so you have to ask about it.

M

**Margaret Lo** · 02-03-2006, 16:23

Originally Posted by fightgrrl

But some restaurants have Terrible Hot and Sour soup, and excellent food...luckily my favorite does all things wonderfully!

On Harrison St, Between Beach and Kneeland St. in Chinatown is the best Vietnamese restaurant I know. It's called Dong Kanh and serves up the best Pho in New England. It also has killer iced coffee that's made from real coffee and will keep you fightin' for hours. Also try the coconut, red bean shake Yum....

Fav noodles: duck noodle soups, curry noodles w/ pork blood, classic beef pho. Bun is great too, barbecue meats/shrimp/egg roll combo is a classic. Rice dishes - try the lemon grass chicken & rice.

And all for around 8$. Hungreeee.

M

**GodofGamblers** · 02-03-2006, 17:18

The favorite Chinese dishes in Indonesia are Shark Fin Soup and Bird's Nest.

Both cost around US$100...

Never had them myself.

**Yang Wei Xin** · 02-15-2006, 18:43

Most restuarants here in sf bay area are cantonese, but there are also quite a few szechuan places, with mandarin being a close third, i don't think i have ever seen one that focused on hunan style tho.