Fried tomatoes and eggs
This is a common dish found in restaurants and made at home, 番茄炒鸡蛋. I thought it was a healthy option, but now seeing how much oil goes into it I’m going ...
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Steamed fish
Wash the fish, drain off excess water, rub with salt and leave for half and hour. Place slices of spring onion (葱 on its own means spring onion, not 洋葱) and gin...
Soda Bread
Soda bread gets the rise from baking soda (a kind of salt, also known as bicarbonate of soda (UK), sodium bicarbonate, or 蘇打粉[苏] sū dá fěn, in both the US and t...
Chinese kale (jielan cai)
This is one of those mysterious vegetables that is everywhere in China and yet no one else in the world seems to eat it. It’s officially called gailan cai...
Jiaozi and Guotie (pot stickers)
Jiaozi (餃子 jiǎo zi) are the small Chinese dumplings, they can be steamed or boiled. Here’s how to make… Boiled Jiaozi We live in the Himalaya foothi...
Chinese Cabbage Soup
白菜湯 bái cài tāng Ingredients Water, Chinese cabbage, oil, salt.Optional: Borage leaves, mint leaves, Thai fish sauce. Method Boil water on a pot on the stove wi...
Oatmeal soda bread (quick bread)
With the oatmeal, butter and yogurt (an no yeast), this is a heavy, moist bread more like a muffin or cake than a savory loaf. It’s really not for me. I t...
White tofu
This is the usual stuff you can get in the West: Damp, anaemic white tofu. White tofu (内酯豆腐 nèi zhǐ dòu fu) is solidified with glucono deltalactone (葡萄糖 pú tao ...
Stinking (hairy) tofu
To cook this (臭豆腐), the fail safe method is to use a dry flat frier (like a sandwich maker, but round like a frying pan / skillet). Serve with powdered chilis (...