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 [...]
Even tofu haters love Ma Po Tofu. Nearly everywhere you eat this dish it’s slightly different, because there are so many regional and family variations, and despite being a Sichuan dish it’s popular all over China where people have made slight adaptations to suit their collective pallets.
Here’s how I make it.
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 [...]
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 [...]
