Today's topic is the main Chinese cooking ways. If you really want to cook Chinese food, the first thing is to understand the several main Chinese cooking methods. Stir-frying Stir-frying is the most basic and common home cooking method. Normally, stir-fried dishes are for cooking vegetables or vegetables with meat or seafood. The vegetables and meat need to be cut into slices or strips. With small amount of oil heated in the pot, quick and keep stir-frying meat first until half-cooked, then add all the other ingredients, add seasonings adjust to your taste, keep stir-frying and turning ingredients until they are done. There are numerous combinations of stir-fried food, while I find some common dishes that have ingredients easy to find here. Since I live on campus, I have no choice to eat at Cafeteria. I am not saying I don't like food there (sometimes). I find many food that can be cooked better and delicious in Chinese way. For example, the I saw celery is served as salad or chopped in soup, while in China we stir-fry it with meat, which is very delicious. Besides, I love squash, while it tastes really different that served in Cafeteria. I prefer the dish we cook in China. I don't know whether it is because the squash is different than the squash from China. I will cook it in Chinese way once I have my own kitchen. Stew or Red Braised This method is common for cooking meat and fish, also for some vegetables like eggplant and tofu. Compared to stir-frying, this is a much slower and time consuming cooking methods, so that we can get strong flavored food. We call it red braised because we use soy sauce or red sugar for this cooking method, which will make food become red or dark red. With water, seasonings like ginger, star anise, five spice powder, and so on, usually braise the ingredients for at least one hour (shorter for cooking vegetables) over low heat in order to get tasty and tender. Stewing also been used to cook broth, such chicken, fish, pork ribs or others that cook meat with amount of water for couple of hours to get delicious meat broth. Steaming Steaming uses a lot for making buns and dim sum, but also for many other ingredients. It is a time consuming method too, but this method can remain most of the nutrient and taste of food. Actually you just need to get the food seasoned and put it into steam machine, and then just wait for it to be done. In China, we have a special cooking utensil made of bamboos, thus the steamed food will have the bamboo fragrance. These three are the main Chinese cooking methods. Check the videos I collected on my Youtube playlist so you can get clear idea how they are made and follow the steps to make Chinese food by your own. Feel free to leave your comments or questions, as well as share your cooking Chinese food experience with me! Thank you for your reading!
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Marine Uyttenhove
3/13/2017 07:22:41 am
I was trying to read your post haha I'm not gonna lie it is the second time I read it because my attention always get attack by the pictures you put and my stomach screaming me to try all of the dishes on each picture. It is only breakfast time and I'm already dreaming about lunch and diner to get some of this amazing asian dishes!!!
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Sharon Tejeda
3/13/2017 09:28:46 am
These dishes look delicious. I have never really tried real Chinese food, but looking at the post and the pictures it makes me hungry looking at them.
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Michelle
3/13/2017 09:54:03 am
Your blog makes me hungry every time!
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3/14/2017 08:22:50 am
It is always a pleasure read your posts , as I said in other blog , Chine is on my list to visit and know more about the culture and the food it is very cool and make me more comfortable to visit. thx for sharing a little peace of your country with us!
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3/14/2017 11:28:34 am
OOoooohhhh. Now we're talkin'
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