Recipes

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Egg drop soup

Egg drop and tomato soup is really the most popular home cooking soup in China. The bright red of tomato matches great with the golden yellow of the egg drops. And more importantly it is so easy. It appears on my tale almost every week. However in order to make a perfect egg drop and

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Sweet and sour pork

I have asked some of the friends in the USA about what are their favorite Chinese dishes, I get mostly half of them choose Sweet and sour pork(咕嚕肉). To be frank, as a traditional Cantonese dish, sweet and sour pork is not a common dish on my table. But I do love the taste of

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Stir-fried beef with green peppers

I get a hungry guest today. However unfortunately, he arrives after dinner time. Then how to serve him? There are lots of answers crossing my mind, fried rice, chow mein or some basic but also nourishing stir fry dish? And finally I decide to serve him a delicious dinner—cooked rice with stir-fried beef with green

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Pearl-shaped ball

I have made a meat ball recipe previously with glutinous rice. It is welcomed by almost all my family members. Then I choose to continue on this road. One of my family members-my husband loves to eat potato very much; however others feel quite boring if we eat shredded potato every day, even sour and

Ingredients

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Pickled tofu| Fermented bean curd

Pickled tofu(豆腐乳) might be referred as Chinese cheese is a type of tofu product made with soybean, salt, rice wine and vinegar. It is one of the most commonly used condiments in many Chinese dishes especially for adding flavor to porridge in breakfast. Additionally, it is one of the most essential ingredients of dipping sauces

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Dou-Chi| Fermented Black Beans

Among different Chinese cuisines, Dou-Chi is quite popular. So it is not the most special fermented condiments in Sichuan cuisine comparing with Sichuan Doubanjiang. However, Dou-Chi is used as widely as Doubanjiang in Sichuan dishes including Mapo tofu and Twice-cooked pork. Additionally, since the taste of fermented black beans is quite strong, it is also

Hot Pot

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Fish hot pot in sour soup

  Today I will introduce another interesting type of hot pot. This dish gets a name as fish hot pot in sour soup. It belongs to the group of Sichuan hot pot but the idea and basic concept including ingredients are inspired by a famous dish in Guizhou province named as Fish in sour soup.

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Calcium bone hot pot

Today I introduce the famous calcium bone hot pot, which is quite popular in Guangdong province and also in Taiwan areas. Calcium bone hot pot uses pig bones especially large bones to make the soup base. Since there pig large bones contain lots of calcium, thus this type of hot pot is also called calcium

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