Questions tagged [chinese-cuisine]
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How to tell if pork-filled steamed buns are pre-cooked?
I recently bought some fresh "pork and Chinese-sausage filled" steamed buns from a supermarket. The supermarket also sells fresh, pre-cooked Taro and egg custard filled buns, which are kept next to the pork-filled buns in the refrigerated section…
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Chinese dumplings vegetarian style - mushrooms raw or cooked?
I recently started making Chinese steamed dumplings (Jiaozi) with cabbage and beef mince. In this version I simply mix together all the ingredients for the filling (cabbage, onion, beef) when they're raw, fold the dumplings and steam them for a few…
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Can you make fish broth with just fish flesh — no bones or heads?
When I ate a fish stew some years ago in a Hong Kong restaurant, the dish had no bones. The broth was made from giant grouper. Do you know if bones were used?
No local grocers sell fish bones. And I don't want to buy fish heads...the appearance of…
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How do I make noodles greasy?
The Internets are great for healthy and fresh and refined. Today I need help being none of those things. I am trying to satisfy my partner's craving for cheap, greasy chicken lo mein. I know how to make chicken lo mein. The Internet is full of…
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What's the minimal set of cookware for Chinese, Japanese foods on an electric induction cook-top?
My grandparents fears food sticking to pans the most. They love, but never attended cooking school for, Chinese and Japanese cuisines.
For their current pan probably can't be seasoned or repaired, they went to the store to seek advice, but the…
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Cleaning chicken with corn starch?
YouTube recently started recommending Chinese cooking videos. This particular cook has a curious habit of rubbing cornstarch all over the chicken breasts before washing them off. Is there an advantage to cleaning chicken with cornstarch? Or…
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What are some clear honey and chili sauces in Chinese cuisine?
I used to go to a Chinese restaurant near my house for years and I usually ordered what they called "Hunan Chicken". It was breaded chicken pieces, similar to what you'd get with Sweet & Sour Chicken, but with a very sweet, very hot sauce, and diced…
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Reheat coated fried chicken (salt and pepper chicken)
I followed a recipe for sat and pepper chicken, where I fry for 5 minutes, then let it rest then fry for a further 2 minutes before adding to the pan with the veg and seasoning.
The recipe said I could refrigerate some of the chicken (after the 5…
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Low-calorie alternative to Lao Gan Ma spicy chili crisp?
I've become obsessed with Lao Gan Ma brand chili sauces. This "Old Godmother" brand sauce is apparently a phenomenon in China and feels like it's about to break out in the export market similar to the rise of Sriracha.
With its signature red label…
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Cooking rice on a fire pit vs gas burner
It is widely believed in East Asia that cooking rice on a fire pit, with firewood as fuel, allows one to make the most tasty rice. Both Cantonese pot rice and Japanese kamameshi, for example, call for cooking in firewood-lit fire for best taste.
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Bean curd that is spiraled
I'm looking for a particular type of bean curd which I used to get from a Chinese restaurant a few years ago before it closed and I haven't been able to find it anywhere (The servers there didn't know what it was called either, we just called it…
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What's this green crispy vegetable or edible seaweed?
My grandparents saw, but didn't take, these online images at Chiu Chow Garden restauarant in Central, Hong Kong. They can't remember which website: perhaps OpenRice? What's the scientific name for the green?
Sources: Left, Right picture.
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Are all these ingredients edible?
I'm cooking a Chinese soup base kit that I found in my local Asian supermarket (an amazing place!) But I'm not familiar with the ingredients. As some of them look strange and 'woody' I wanted to check if I'm supposed to fish them out like a bay leaf…
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Does this still count as "scrambled eggs"?
Being Chinese-American, I grew up on this stuff. The English name "Chinese steamed eggs" comes from the fact that it comes from Chinese cuisine, and that "steamed" comes from the word 蒸 in 蒸鸡蛋. The word 鸡蛋 refers to "chicken eggs", but the word 鸡…
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Is Snow Fungus produced outside China?
My grandparents in Toronto need snow fungus to make Snow Fungus dessert soup. But they've found only ones from China. They prefer to buy locally, and are too frightened by China's countless food safety incidents to buy foods from China.
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