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Szechuan Chili Chicken 辣子鷄, Couple’s Delight 夫妻肺片, Mouth Watering Chicken 口水鷄 and Braised Spicy Beef 水煮牛肉 are the four dishes I ordered the most whenever hitting a Szechuan restaurant. If you can never go wrong with them, if you do.. you are in the wrong place. Usually Szechuan Chili Chicken is deep-fried first before stir […]
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“Do you wanna eat intestines on Thursday?” “…maybe not…” When I received cleaned intestine from Weee! grocery and excited to roll up my sleeves and cook Stir-Fried Intestines with Pickles for guests the day after tomorrow, I got the above response… I can’t blame my friend for not loving intestines, it is quite uncommon and […]
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Do you know there is actually usually, no FISH in this dish with direct translation from Chinese as “fragrant fish stir-fry egg plants”? I have tried to make eggplants with minced pork twice without recipe, just by “thinking & recreating”, both failed badly — either too sour or not seasoned enough. Getting the tricks included here to preserve color of eggplants and get rid of excessive water, to season the dish with spicy bean sauce, this will be a simple dish!! You can also give an extra kick with dried shrimp or fish so it actually has “fish” instead of just ground pork!
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Couple’s Delight or Fuqi Feipian (Szechuan) / 夫妻肺片(川菜) is one of the two side dishes that I always order in Szechuan restaurants. ? Anecdote about this dish: originally, the “Fei 肺” (lung) in the dish name is originally another Chinese character “廢” (waste) with the same pronunciation, referring to all the organs (beef tongue, beef tripe, beef heart, etc. ) used in the dish. These parts are not the most valuable and used to be discarded as waste, until a couple followed by many other chefs transformed them, crowned this representative Szechuan cold dish today, and thus changed the character from “waste” to “lung”, hinting the organs used in the dish, STILL! Lung is not usually used!
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Another very classic Szechuan dish is twice-cooked pork — first cook in mid-low water for 20-30min, second-cook in pan for stir fry. Traditional twice-cooked pork is cooked with garlic sprouts 蒜苗, but if unable to find this, bell pepper is usually used instead. Sweetness of bell peppers compensates the spicy, crispy pork belly very well!
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It’s summer time and temperature is rising. Cucumber salad is great to cool us down! Cucumber Salad, a classical appetizer, has short prep time, simple ingredients and can help with appetite!
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Red Chili Oil is frequently used in many, many Chinese cuisines, especially Szechuan food such as mouth-watering chili chicken 口水鷄, handmade noodle 手杆肉燥面, Chili dumplings 紅油抄手, cucumber salad 涼拌拍黃瓜. It is not hard to make at home either!
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[Recipe revised and updated! ] I will have a REAL struggle to choose either Mouth-watering Chili Chicken 口水鷄 or Beef & Tripe in Chili Oil 夫妻肺片 as my appetizer whenever I go to a Szechuan restaurant. Here I am sharing the recipe I used to make yummy, spicy mouth-watering chili chicken!!
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After trying out hand-made pasta quite “successfully” last time, I felt like I am ready for next challenge (me being over-confident in food as always haha 😛 )! I originally looks into one of the biggest challenge among noodles – THE Hand-pull noodle 蘭州拉麵. Even after watching Tasty staff Andrew’s multi-failure video (enjoy it below!), […]
