In Shanghai area we are used to stir frying green beans with chopped garlic. It tastes good enough and  my mum has been cooking like this for years…until my Cantonese mother-in-law came to visit, I started to know a better way of cooking them. All thanks for the odd Cantonese preserves: Gan-lan-cai. In spite …

  If you are bored of steak and chips (which I don’t think you will), this is another quick way  to cook a fab steak dish. Beef and mushroom are classic combinations as they create a juicy and rich taste. Chinese people do the same thing. I especially like using king oyster mushroom because they …

  Many of you may have heard of this dish: Mapo tofu. It is almost like a signature dish in every Chinese restaurant and take away. But why is this tofu called Mapo? Or, should I say, this women who invented the dish called Mapo? ‘Po’ is a Chinese saying of elderly ladies, sometimes don’t …