Chinese Cooking Tips

 

Chinese cooking and Chinese cuisine has different ’styles’ based on geographic regions. For example, there’s Cantonese cuisine

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Char siu is common in places with a large Cantonese-speaking community, including southern China, Malaysia and Singapore. It is also commonly served in Chinese restaurants and food markets in other parts of the world. Many Chinese restaurants, especially Cantonese, hang Char Siu in the shop window.

Peking cuisine

The history of the Peking Duck can be traced as far back as the Yuan Dynasty (1206 – 1368). By the time of the early 15th century it had become one of the favorite dishes of

the imperial Ming family.

The two most famous restaurants in Beijing which serve this specialty are Quanjude and Bianyifang (便宜坊). Both establishments have a history of well over a hundred years and have an extensive network of chain stores.

Shanghai style,

In Shanghainese cuisine, cí fàn tuán (糍饭团) is sometimes consumed together with soy milk as breakfast.

and the ever popular spicy Szechuan cooking.

And there’s more to Chinese cooking than just stir-frying, such as steaming, smoking, barbecuing, braising etc… But for those of us just wanting some simple and ‘regular’ Chinese food, this all gets a little to complicated and confusing. For simple, easy Chinese cooking, click here.

Use these 10 Chinese cooking tips to help you cooking better Chinese food:

1. Use enough oil when stir-frying. This gives best results. If worried about cholesterol and fats in oil, use canola oil – the best oil to use for stir-frying.

2. Try using salt instead of soy sauce. It gives it a nicer color, and tastes better.

3. Cut your ingredients into even sized pieces for best cooking results.

4. Cook the denser ingredients first. Since they take longer time to cook.
5. Use ginger, garlic, and cayenne pepper to spice up your Chinese cooking and also improve your health.
6. Blanche dense vegetables before cooking for best results. For example, broccoli, carrots, cauliflower.
7. You can use starch water to thicken sauces.
8. Prepare your cooking ingredients ahead of time, so you’re never rushed.
9. Try using all types of Chinese cooking ingredients such as dried fungus, Chinese mushrooms, yu choy, Chinese broccoli etc…
10. When cooking something, it should look good, smell good, and most of all, taste good.

Okay, so #10 wasn’t really a tip… But it’s the truth. Everyone wants their food to look, smell, and taste good. Don’t you?