Chinese Food Recipes for dishes easy to prepare at home
Longjing Shrimp is a typical famous dish in Hangzhou. It selects fresh shrimps from local rivers and cooked with Longjing Tea. Longjing Shrimp is famous for being cooked with the best Longjing Tea that are produced in the hills nearby Xihu (West Lake) city. In Qing Dynasty, people used to cook the dishes with other…
Guoqiao is a rice noodle dish that means “across the bridge“. The Legend of Guoqiao rice noodle Legend has it that guo qiao mi xian came about when a young scholar in Yunnan province retreated to another place to prepare for the imperial examination in Qing Dynasty. His loving wife would travel and cross a…
Shaomai is a traditional Chinese dumpling served in dianxin / dim sum. There are two regional varieties of shaomai: a Cantonese version and a version from the Jiangnan region. Cantonese shaomai (also known as siew mai) As prepared in Cantonese cuisine, shaomai is also referred to as “pork and mushroom dumpling.” Its standard filling is…
Laba Festival is celebrated on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month. La in Chinese means the 12th lunar month and ba means eight. The majority Han Chinese have long followed the tradition of eating Laba rice porridge on that day since Song dynasty about 900 years ago. Legends about the origin of this…
In China, red bean soup is a popular dish. It is categorized as a tang shui, (literally translated as sugar water), or sweet soup. It is often served cold during the summer, and hot in the winter. Leftover red bean soup can also be frozen to make ice pops. It is one of the main…
The Chongqing Spicy Chicken is part of Szechuan / Sichuan Cuisine, well-known for its addictively spicy food. The Sichuan Cuisine originates in Sichuan province of southwestern China. Its flavours are famed to be bold and particularly the pungency and spiciness resulting from liberal use of garlic and chili peppers, as well as the unique flavour…
Har gow (also spelled har gau, har kau, har gao, ha gao, ha gow, ha gau, har gaw, ha gaw, har kaw, ha gaau, har cow, har gaau, or other variants) is a traditional Chinese dumpling dish served in dim sum (dian xin). Traditionally, har gow should have at least seven and preferably ten or…
The preparation of making Green Bean Soup is simple. Boil the beans in water until they crack open and then add sugar. The beans should have cracked open, but should not be too mushy. The soup should also not be too watery or too sweet. To add variation: honey dew sago and/or pandan leaves to…
Origins Mushu Pork is a dish of northern Chinese origin, possibly believed to be originated from Shandong. Thin strips of pork are either deep-fried or stir-fried, combined with a colorful array of exotic Chinese vegetables. A flavorful sauce and bits of scrambled egg make the dish complete. According to various sources of origins, “mu shu”…
