I was shocked when I saw lotus roots for sale in a normal English supermarket…hesitated for one minute and bought one. I hesitated because on one side I haven’t cook with it for ages!… but on the other side I used to love them so much when I was living in China. My home …
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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 …
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First of all I need to make clear that this recipe is nothing to do with Chinese cooking! But as it is so easy and quick to do, yet tastes delicious and looks beautiful, that’s exactly the type of food I adore. I did this for lunch yesterday and was really happy with the …
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The weather man on tele just said this Easter is the coldest ever in record ! As I looked at my garden, it is still covered by snow from last weekend! OK, I should accept the fact and do something to cheer myself up…obviously not gardening…so what can I do? Ah, cooking! In China …
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As the big feast season is approaching, have you switched on your taste buds? When I was searching for pork ribs in the super market earlier, I saw loads of rolled up pork for roasting instead. Ah yes, the sunny BBQ season has gone, why am I still cooking the ribs for? Let’s forget …
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It was those good lazy uni days in Shanghai when I tasted this dish for the first time. There were always so many little restaurants and takeaways around the campus, same as everywhere in the world. At that time six of us lived in the same dormitory, yes, I mean dormitory, 6 girls living …
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Chinese like to cook with dried ingredients a lot. Every household has jars and jars of dried food: shiitake mushrooms, dried vegetables (e.g. bamboo shoots), dried fruits and all sorts of dried meat. Suppose in old times before the fridge and freezer, different nations have their own ways of preserving food: sun dried, …
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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 …
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I bet you don’t want to hear this from your boss: “Stir fry your squid!” If you totally get lost, don’t worry, this is only a very Chinese saying. Actually it means: “You are fired!” If you still get lost, let me explain this properly. In old times, Chinese employers often supplied accommodation to …
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As Chinese I love to eat steamed freshwater fish. This is so easy, quick, healthy and family friendly. I say family friendly is because you cannot eat this dish in front of the giant screen. Everybody have to sit around the dinning table and carefully pick the fish bones while eating it! Chinese parents …
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