A vegetarian dish made with the same seaweed used to make sushi rolls. Ingredients: 3 sheets dried bean curd
3 sheets yakinori (roasted seaweed used in sushi rolls)
Seasoning:
1 tablespoon light soy sauce
1 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons sugar
1 teaspoon pepper
1 teaspoon sesame oil
a pinch MSG (if desired)
3 cups water
Oil for frying
Category: Chinese Food
Food in White Dews
Yang Li, Chief Expert of TCM in health preserving, a professor at the China Academy of Chinese Medical Science, tells us that the best food during White Dew is sweet potato and millet.
How to cook Chang’s Zodiac Noodles
From P.F.Chang’s "Flavors of Yunnan” menu, Zodiac Noodles combines rice noodles with pork loin, ham, cabbage and shiitake mushrooms in a spicy Kung Pao-style sauce. Rice vermicelli noodles are available at Asian markets, or you can substitute spaghetti. Serves 1 to 2.
How to cook Ants Climbing a Tree 蚂蚁上树
Ants Climbing a Tree in Chinese we say 蚂蚁上树. Other names for this authentic Szechuan dish include Ants Climbing a Hill, Ants Climbing a Log, and Ants Creeping up a Tree.
How to cook Beggar’s Chicken叫花鸡
Beggar's Chicken also called "jiaohua ji" in the Shanghainese dialect, and the chicken is stuffed, wrapped, and roasted in this traditional Eastern Chinese recipe also this dish is very popular with Far Eastern gourmets.
How to cook Kung Pao Chicken
Kung Pao Chicken is a spicy Szechuan dish made with diced chicken, peanuts and chili peppers. This recipe calls for deep-frying; for a lighter version, try Kung Pao Chicken Stir-fry.
How to cook Lion’s Head Meatballs 狮子头
Traditionally this Shanghai casserole dish featuring oversized pork meatballs and greens is made with pork fat and cooked in a sand clay pot. The large meatballs are meant to represent a lion, and the shredded greens its mane.
Chop Suey‘s Story杂烩菜
What is chop suey? In Chinese, the two characters for chop suey are pronounced "tsa sui" in Mandarin or in Cantonese "shap sui," meaning "mixed small bits" or "odds and ends." As a culinary term, shap sui refers to a kind of stew made of many different ingredients mixed together. Shap sui probably first came to the United States with the waves of Chinese immigrants drawn to the California gold fields. Most came from the South China coast’s Pearl River Delta and particularly the town of Toishan. In the 1870s, the Chinese were pushed from the American West by racial violence, migrating to cities like Philadelphia, Boston, and New York. There Americans first noticed a dish called "chow-chop-suey."
The Origins of Chinese Food Name
Here are some more interesting stories about the origins of Chinese dishes: Mu Shu Pork, Buddha Jumps Over the Wall, General Tso's Chicken and Crossing the Bridge Noodles.
Recipes in Stopping the Heat
After End of Heat, the temperature difference is large. People will make some Health-Preserving food help clear away internal heat.