Ingredients
2 large Chinese dried mushrooms 800g diced pork
Bunch of choy sum, thick ends cut off 2 tab cornflour
1 small hot red chilli 4 tabs light soy sauce
5 cloves of garlic 4 tabs Chinese cooking wine
5cm piece of ginger 4 tabs brown sugar
½ tsp fennel seeds 375ml beef stock
½ cinnamon stick 250ml water
¼ tsp cracked peppercorns 5 spring onions, 5cm lengths
1 star anise snow peas
2 [...]
You Xiang Rou Si, meaning Fish fragrant pork strips, doesn’t actually smell like fish nor does it contain any.
INGREDIENTS
2 tablespoons vegetable oil
300g shredded pork (”Zhu rou si”) or pork cut into matchstick sized strips
1 carrot and two good sized bamboo shoots cut into the same size as the pork piece
5 or 6 crushed dried red [...]
This recipe is so ridiculously easy that even a monkey could cook it. This got eaten up so fast, I forgot to take a photo.
Ingredients:
500g Chicken (Wings, thighs, or a whole chicken)
2 tsp 5 spice powder
1 star anise
1 piece of ginger, sliced
2 tbsp sugar
1 tbsp dry sherry
1 Cup of soy sauce
1.5 Cups of Water*
*Or enough [...]
Suck on that Zhao Ban di, another Chinese cultural icon raped and pillaged by the western imperialists.
OSPOP have remade the classic worker sneaker, sported by Chinese migrant workers everywhere as fashion plimsolls. WTF is a Plimsoll? I had to ask too, it’s a rubber-soled canvas shoe for sports or onboard ships; a precursor of trainers [...]
After a trip back to Yantai my return flight to Shanghai was delayed by a few hours due to fog, it seems that Yantai (International) Airport doesn’t have a single plane on the ground at 7.30am on a Monday morning, except numerous fighter jets. Nonetheless the pangs of hunger began to set in, the remnants [...]
