Category: Chinese Food

How to cook Vegetarian Bean Curd Rolls

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

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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.

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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."

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