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
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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 [...]
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 [...]
