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Tag: Chinese

  • Gary fooks seabass

    Gary fooks seabass

    This isn’t really the recipe, which calls for whole seabass, but steaming this fish, brushing oyster sauce over it, then pouring boiling oil over it sure is tasty. From River…

  • Lion’s Head Noodles

    Lion’s Head Noodles

    There’s a more complex Fuchsia Dunlop recipe for these as well that is worth trying, but this was excellent. I also used pork shoulder minced in the processor to get…

  • Dan Dan Noodles

    Dan Dan Noodles

    Better than my previous attempt of these, and because I was lazy and added no words back then I have no idea why. I remember that it felt curiously straightforward…

  • Hong Kong Crispy Noodles

    Hong Kong Crispy Noodles

    This reminds me of Pancit Canton, but with a pleasingly crispy thin noodle bed rather than thick juicy noods, and possibly a less crowd pleasing flavour… May be a harsh…

  • Siu Yuk

    Siu Yuk

  • Hot and sour silken tofu

    There are aspects of this that I knew wouldn’t work as written… Unheated broth, spring onions, uncooked garlic. All are warning signs for personal preferences as well as demands of…

  • Red braised pork

    Red braised pork

    Oo this is extremely good. Delicious pork, the blanche and fry steps before braising prevent this from becoming a lump of fatty amorphous protein and the braising liquor is delightfully…

  • Gong Bao (Kung Pow)

    Ooo boy… This is… authentic.  Spicy and tingly, sweet and sour, crunchy and… tasty.  But I do feel like it might be a bit much for my feeble western tongue.…

  • General Tso’s Tofu

    Very satisfying, take away style dish. Used a mix of the two recipes, Lau’s being sweeter, and using its batter and deep frying the tofu (twice…). This is… Nice. Decadent.…

  • Salt fried pork

    Salt fried pork

    From Every Grain of Rice, pg. 98