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Kam Heong Clams (Golden Fragrant Clams)

14 February, 2012 (13:46) | Chinese Food Culture | By: admin

Kam Heong Clams (Golden Fragrant Clams)

February 13th, 2012Malaysian Food, Recipes, Malaysian recipes, Recipes

“Kam Heong” is a signature Malaysian stir-fry style that is renowned for the fragrance imparted during the cooking process, hence the Cantonese term “Kam Heong (金香)”, which means “Golden Fragrance”. This one-of-a-kind style of stir-frying incorporates ingredients from Malay, Chinese, and Indian cooking to produce one of the most mouth-watering palate I have ever exposed my taste buds to.

The main ingredients that give the €œKam Heong” dish its unique taste are fiery bird™s eye chilies, aromatic curry leaves, crispy bits of dried shrimp, savory curry powder and soy bean paste. Stir-frying these ingredients together yields a sauce that goes well with chicken, crab, squid, shrimp, pork and especially clams. Kam Heong Clams (金香拉拉) or Kam Heong Lala (known in Malaysia) is one of the most popular hawker creations “Dai Pai Dong” (å¤排档) (Cantonese for “open-air food stall”). I have cooked plenty of styles in clam dishes, eg. Thai-style Hoy Lai Ped, Taiwanese-style Clams, Japanese-style Asari No Sakamushi, and Kam Heong Clams is by far my favorite Recipe for clams.

Kam Heong Clams

Sometimes the most romantic setting for Valentine’s Day can be as simple as an exotic and seductive seafood dish and a bottle of wine. I am sure Kam Heong Clams is one of the dish to impress your loved one and hopefully you can make this in time for the special day, if not, any other day.

(Click Page 2 for the Kam Heong Clams Recipe (Golden Fragrant Clams)

Kam Heong Clams (Golden Fragrant Clams)

14 February, 2012 (13:46) | Chinese Food Culture | By: admin

Kam Heong Clams (Golden Fragrant Clams)

February 13th, 2012Malaysian Food, Recipes, Malaysian recipes, Recipes

“Kam Heong” is a signature Malaysian stir-fry style that is renowned for the fragrance imparted during the cooking process, hence the Cantonese term “Kam Heong (金香)”, which means Golden Fragrance”. This one-of-a-kind style of stir-frying incorporates ingredients from Malay, Chinese, and Indian cooking to produce one of the most mouth-watering palate I have ever exposed my taste buds to.

The main ingredients that give the “Kam Heong” dish its unique taste are fiery bird’s eye chilies, aromatic curry leaves, crispy bits of dried shrimp, savory curry powder and soy bean paste. Stir-frying these ingredients together yields a sauce that goes well with chicken, crab, squid, shrimp, pork and especially clams. Kam Heong Clams (金香拉) or Kam Heong Lala (known in Malaysia) is one of the most popular hawker creations “Dai Pai Dong” (大排档) (Cantonese for “open-air food stall”). I have cooked plenty of styles in clam dishes, eg. Thai-style Hoy Lai Ped, Taiwanese-style Clams, Japanese-style Asari No Sakamushi, and Kam Heong Clams is by far my favorite Recipe for clams.

Kam Heong Clams

Sometimes the most romantic setting for Valentine’s Day can be as simple as an exotic and seductive seafood dish and a bottle of wine. I am sure Kam Heong Clams is one of the dish to impress your loved one and hopefully you can make this in time for the special day, if not, any other day.

(Click Page 2 for the Kam Heong Clams Recipe (Golden Fragrant Clams)

BEST CHINESE FOOD IN THE VALLEY

24 November, 2010 (02:25) | Chinese Food Culture | By: admin

I am trying to find the absolute very best chinese food similar to the east coast style of chinese food that I grew up on. My favorite issues are Chicken w/ Garlic Sauce with Hot ‘n Sour Soup along with a Pork Egg Roll. I would like to locate a place that I could get these and take pleasure in them. I admit I haven’t had a single positive chinese food expertise because moving here two years ago. I’ve all but written off Chinese Food. assist me…
Been to Yang Chow’s within the Valley and compared to Downtown wa greatly disappointed. My call is Bamboo on Ventura just east of Hazeltine. My factors are in order of preference: Food, smbience and service (tied). Unlike most Valley Chinese restaurants every dish has it’s personal specific flavor rather than the universal sauce foisted off within the Valley as Chinese. I don’t deny that the very best is downtown or Monterey Park and environs. We’re talking the Valley here.
If Studio City is within commuting distance, Kung Pao Bistro(on Ventura, 2 blocks east of Laurel Canyon) is really a winner, with a few of the most flavorful sauces, excellent soups, and really significant plates of superb shrimp, scallops, or whatever the protein option could be with suitable sauces, at really inexpensive prices. The restaurant was just recently remodeled, and also the exterior is being carried out as I write. There is no oil slick left on the bottom of the plate upon completion, thus a guarantee that somebody within the kitchen knows the best way to deal with sauces. The owner has been cooking Chinese food for 30 years, and started in NYC, and has a very loyal Sunday Jewish clientele.
Putting aside the contradiction between the term New York style Chinese food and also the description “best,” at one time there had been a couple of Chinese restaurants on Ventura Blvd. to the east of Topanga Canyon that expressly claimed to serve New York style Chinese food. I seem to recall one named Shanghai Garden or some thing like that, and have no concept regardless of whether it’s still around. maybe you’ll be able to check that stretch of roadway.

Foodcore – I wish I could assist you to. I’m just not that familiar with New York CHinese food. I believe the Chungking on Pico (not within the valley but it sounds like you’re desperate) NOT THE CHUNG KING ON GARFIELD IN M PARK could be close to what you would like.
CHUNG KING RESTAURANT
11538 W PICO BLVD
90064
LOS ANGELES
(not the Chongqing Sichuan place)

There’s a place that looks like the type of place you’re describing,
MANDARIN TIGER
18900 VENTURA BLVD
913Ș
TARZANA
that serves hot and sour soup and pork eggrolls. It might be that Chicken with garlic sauce has an additional name, I don’t know of any chinese dish with that type of name ( suan ni ji ding?) but it could be a widespread translation within the new York region.

It seems a pity that you simply haven’t been in a position to take pleasure in a few of the places where the food may possibly be a lot more similar to what you’ll locate in China or Hong Kong like Mandarin Deli or A&W in Northridge. I’ll put the addresses here in case you’d like to try them.

MANDARIN DELI
9305 RESEDA BLVD
91324
NORTHRIDGE

A & W SEAFOOD RESTAURANT
9306 RESEDA BLVD
91324
NORTHRIDGE

BTW when i’m in New York, I usually make itout to Flushing. Last time I went to a delightful Fujian restaurant where i had a excellent omelette with oysters, razor clams in red rice wine and Chicken with red ricewine lees sacue. But that’s not the type of place you’re describing I’d wager.
Ah finally I feel a lot more qualified than Jerome in discussing a type of “Asian” cuisine ;-)

because I am from New Jersey, I understand how somebody weaned on NYC Chinese could believe the very best within the SGV is not really good… simply because it is such a different type of cooking that when you’re expecting a heavy, gloppy, sweet sauce and are served some thing with a much lighter touch, it can feel like something’s “missing”. I can tell you from first hand expertise that it takes a while to recalibrate your expectations of Chinese food.

Now having said this, if the inauthentic NYC style Chinese food is what you’re trying to find (like those eggrolls with the delicious dark brown, chewy skins), go to Genghis Cohen on Fairfax. For some reason they cut the eggrolls in half (and charge about $5.00 for 2… egad, they should be 99 cents for gigantic ones) but the food is about as close to home as I’ve found out here.

Then when you’re carried out, go to Tung Lae Shun for some Islamic Chinese food, order the lamb with leeks and also the sesame scallion bread and change your expectations of what Chinese food is supposed to be!

Ginger and Clam Soup (姜丝蛤蜊汤)

14 September, 2010 (08:49) | Chinese food recipes | By: admin

September 13th, 2010 | 30-Minute Meals recipes, Chinese, Chinese Recipes | 4 Comments

I love soups of all sorts, especially Chinese soups. To the Chinese, soups are highly nourishing as each ingredient in the soup delivers a certain health (and beauty) benefit and promotes overall strengths to the body. Drinking soup is a huge part of the Chinese food culture, soup is often considered as “tonic” (補品).

There are endless variations of soups in Chinese cuisine as so many ingredients could be used—Chinese herbal (medicinal), meat-based (chicken, pork, beef, duck, bones, etc.), vegetables (fresh and dried), dried seafood (dried scallops, abalone, oysters, etc.), fresh seafood, the exotics (bird’s nest, shark’s fin, etc.), and the combination of all the ingredients above. The possibilities are endless, and most importantly, delicious, wholesome, healthy, and certainly much more than the regular egg drop soup and hot and sour soupâ€

One of the easiest soups that I always make at home is ginger and clam soup, or 丝蛤蜊汤. This soup is especially popular for the Taiwanese, and served at Taiwanese restaurants. It takes only a few ingredients and practically 15 minutes to prepare, but the end result is absolutely pleasing. According to my Chinese soups cookbook, ginger and clam soup is great for the liver and stimulates a healthy appetite.

Ginger and Clam Soup Recipe (姜丝蛤蜊汤)

Ingredients:

1 1/2 cups water
1 1/2-inch piece fresh ginger, peeled and cut into thin matchstick strips
1 lb Manila clams, rinsed and scrubbed
1 tablespoon Chinese rice wine (not Shaoxing wine)
Salt to taste
Dash of white pepper

Method:

Bring the water to boil and add the ginger and clams. Cover the pot and let cook for about 3-5 minutes, or until all clams are open. Add the Chinese rice wine, salt to taste, and pepper. Dish out and serve immediately.

Cook’s Note:

For this recipe, please use the regular Chinese rice wine which is transparent in color, and not the amber-colored Shaoxing rice wine.

Chili Crab

25 July, 2010 (11:30) | How to cook Chinese Food | By: admin

crab
(This chili crab recipe is from my archive but I have just made it these days and updated with new photos, shot with Canon T1i. The new Canon 5D Mark II is reserved for my cookbook.)

My mother was a fantastic cook. Coming from a little fishing village in the state of Kedah, she produced killer dishes with seafood, specially chili crab. With this post, I give my utmost tribute and applause to my late mother for her cooking skills and this quite special family Recipe.

Growing up, I would usually look forward to visiting my mother’s hometown; as a matter of fact, I would ask my parents to take me there. My intentions were not completely pure, I should confess; other than being able to play on the beach and dig siput (a type of clams), my bigger motivation was that she would bring back the freshest, meatiest, and juiciest catch of green mud crabs from my uncle who was a fisherman. I was constantly brimming with excitement at the thought of devouring this dishâ€(get chili crab recipe after the jump)

Eating home-cooked chili crab was a celebration in my family”the preparation (imagine “capturing” those feisty crabs that “escaped” the nets and roamed freely within the kitchen!), the cooking, and of course, the eating. It was sheer fun; lots of fun.

While this dish is traditionally prepared with green mud crab in Malaysia, I applied a 2-lb Dungeness crab. In case you can’t locate green mud crab or Dungeness crab in your area, you’ll be able to often use one more crab—stone crab or blue crab. If you are in New York City, call yourself lucky as it is possible to just hop straight to Fatty Crab from the meat packing district and order this dish. Chef Zak Pelaccio’s serves a Malaysian-style chili crab at his restaurant.

Feast your eyes now with my pictures, but I hope you get a chance to try this chili crab recipe. Please take note that this chili crab recipe is not Singaporean-style chili crab which is produced with a tomato-based sauce; this is adapted from my family’s chili crab recipe.

Clams Recipe: Hoy Lai Ped (Spicy Clams in Thai Roasted Chili Paste)

3 July, 2010 (02:16) | How to cook Chinese Food | By: admin

Hoy Lai Ped (Clams in Thai Roasted Chili Paste)
One early morning in January when I was home in Penang, my brother, sister, nephew, our maid and I set off to a clam-digging expedition in a little island off the coast of Penang. In less than two hours, we dug two buckets full of big, fat, and succulent fresh clams, after we got both our hands and feet wet, not to mention some mud on my sister’s hair. It was a single of the most exciting, fun-filled, and fruitful excursions nonetheless. We had so much fun!

As soon as we went residence, my brother cooked up a huge batch of hoy lai ped, or fried clams with roasted chili paste, a Thai recipe that he had learned from his Thai friend. Our family and all the kids gathered together and savored the bounty with excellent victory–nothing tastes quite as excellent as food caught with our own hands…(get Hoy Lai Ped Recipe right after the jump)
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Hoy lai ped literally means spicy clams in Thai. It’s a well-known clam recipe in Thailand. Thailand is blessed with abundant seafood and clams are hugely well-liked. Hoy lai ped is quite effortless to prepare and you require only a few key ingredients: Thai roasted chili paste or “nam prik pao,” fresh basil leaves, and bird’s eye chilies. It has become one of my favorite clam recipes simply because of its vibrant flavors: fiery hot and exuberantly briny with a robust minty note from the basil leaves.

Now back within the US, I usually make hoy lai ped. While there is no clam digging, I can often get fresh Manila clams from Asian supermarkets. My brother’s friend also bought me a big tin of nam prik pao (Thai roasted chili paste) which is now an essential ingredient in my cooking repertoire.

Here is my recipe for hoy lai ped or spicy clams in Thai roasted chili paste. Try it out, its seriously delicious!
CLAMS RECIPE: HOY LAI PED (SPICY CLAMS IN THAI ROASTED CHILI PASTE)
INGREDIENTS:

1 1/2 pound clams
2 tablespoons nam prik phao
2 oz Thai basil (remove stems, just use the leaves)
6 bird’s eye chilies (lightly pounded)
2 cloves garlic (finely chopped)
1 teaspoon sugar or to taste
1ǘ teaspoon fish sauce (optional or to taste)
3 tablespoons oil

METHOD:

Clean and rinse the clams well, scrubbing the surface. Set aside.

Heat wok over high heat and add oil. Stir-fry the garlic until aromatic, then add nam prik phao and bird’s eye chilies. Continue stirring for 1 minute and add clams into the wok. Stir-fry until the clams open, then add Thai basil leaves, fish sauce and sugar to taste. Do a few quick stirs, dish out and serve immediately with steamed white rice.

Malaysian-style BBQ Seafood

28 June, 2010 (05:44) | Chinese food recipes | By: admin

June 22nd, 2010 | Malay Cooking, Malaysian Food, Malaysian Recipes | 18 Comments

My good friends Farina and Michael came over to visit last week and we made some Malaysian-style BBQ seafood, inspired by this popular hawker fare in Kuala Lumpur (KL), Malaysia. They are called Portuguese-style baked seafood. There is really nothing Portuguese about it but Malaysia do have some Portuguese descendants because Malacca was a Portuguese colony in the 16th century. So perhaps this is how they bake their seafood—with fiery sambal, okras, and wrapped with aluminum foil.

Farina and I enjoyed our BBQ so much. As Malaysians, we concluded that this is probably the best way to serve seafood BBQ-style. Our favorite is the BBQ clams with sambal and okras. It was simply lip smackingly delicious…

To prepare these mouthwatering Malaysian-style BBQ, all you need are your favorite seafood and shellfish: shimp, squid, fish (we like stingray or white pomfret), clams, and some okras. Mix the seafood of your choice (you can also do a seafood combination) with sambal, okra, and wrap the aluminum foil tightly (preferably two layers to avoid leakage), and off onto the grill. That’s it.

Try this new Recipe this summer. You will not be disappointed!

Farina’s Malay-style Sambal Recipe
Source: Salt n Turmeric

A:
1 small bottle of store-bought sambal oelek, 8oz
2 medium-sized onion, quartered
5-in ginger
1-2 stalks lemongrass, white part only, grated
1 tablespoon toasted belacan powder

B:
1/4 cup vegetable oil
1 small can tomato paste
1/2 cup water
3 tablespoons tamarind juice (extract from tamarind pulp and water)
1 1/2 tablespoons salt
1 cup sugar

1. Grind all the ingredients in A.
2. Heat up the oil in the wok on medium high heat. Put the above the ground ingredients A in. Keep stirring for about 10 minutes.
3. Add water, tomato paste, tamarind juice, salt, and sugar. Continue stirring for another 10 minutes. Add more salt or sugar to taste. Dish out and set aside.

Cook’s Note:

  1. Bottled sambal oelek is very spicy, but the above sambal recipe will “dilute” the spiciness. The recipe yields about two bottles or more sambal. You don’t have to use up all the sambal for the BBQ seafood, just use enough for each seafood parcel.
  2. You can also try out my grilled fish sambal recipe here, which is more Nyonya-style.

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Chinese Recipes – Alphabetical Index of Chinese Recipes

24 June, 2010 (14:41) | Chinese Food Culture | By: admin

Chinese
recipesAlphabetical Index

Looking for a specific recipe? Here is my collection of
Chinese recipes, hand-picked from a variety of sources and indexed
alphabetically.

Chinese Recipes – A to B
Almond
Boneless Chicken (Wor Su Gai)
Almond Cookies
Almond Float
Alva’s “Jook” – Chinese-Style Turkey
Soup (Reader Favorite)
Ants Climbing a Tree
Asian Style Brandy Snap – Orange Almond
Biscuit
Asian Pasta Salad
Asian-Style Roast Pork Tenderloin
Asian Vinaigrette
Asparagus Chicken Stir-fry
Aunt Florence’s Mochi Chicken
Barbecued Spareribs
Baked Chicken Chow Mein

Baked
Crab Rangoon
Baked Hoisin Chicken Wings
Baked Pork Chops
Bang
Bang (Bon Bon) Chicken
Barbecued Pork 
Barbecued Pork – Savory
Basic Beef
Stir-fry
Basic Chinese Yeast Dough
Basic Cooked rice
Basic
Dough (sweet dough for cocktail buns)Basic
Fried Rice
Bean Curd with Black Mushrooms (stir-fried)
Bean curd Rolls with Seaweed(vegetarian)
Bean Curd with Chinese Broccoli Stir-fry (Reader
Favorite)
Beef
and Peppers in Black Bean Sauce
Beef and Snow Peas in Oyster Sauce
Beef Chow
Fun with Baby Corn
Beef Lo Mein
Beef
Marinade
Beef Satay
Beef Stew (Chinese/Hawaiian)
Beef Teriyaki
Beef with Broccoli 

More Recipes Below
Beef with Broccoli and Vegetables
Beef with Chestnut Stew
Beef with Mango

Beef with Red Onions
Beef
With Rice Noodles and Fermented Black Beans
Beef
with Sesame Seeds
Beef with Spicy Black Bean Sauce
Beef with String Beans
Beef with Three Vegetables
Beef with Tomatoes – a Cantonese
home-cooked dish, with oyster sauce
Beef with Tomatoes (Cantonese)
another Recipe using mung bean sprouts with oyster sauce and brown sugar in the
marinade.
Beggar’s Chicken

Bernie’s Oriental Ribs
Bird’s Nest with Rock Sugar Dessert Soup
Blueberry
Tofu Smoothie
Bok Choy Chicken Soup
Bok Choy Chicken Stir-fry in Garlic
Bourbon
Chicken
Bow Thai Pasta with Shrimp
Bow Ties
Braised Assorted Fungus (vegetarian)
Braised
Beef (an example of
“red-cooking”)
Braised
Beef With Vegetables (a more Western-style version)
Broccoli
Chicken (with velveted chicken)
Broccoli in Oyster Sauce

Brown Sauce
Bubble Tea

Bubble
Tea Latte Recipe for One
Bubble
Tea Smoothie
Buns (Basic Recipe)
Butter Prawns

Chinese Recipes – C to E
Cabbage with Chinese Sausage
Candied Sweet Potatoes
Candied Banana Fritters
(Toffee Bananas)
Candied
Walnuts
Cantonese
Beef and Peppers in Black Bean Sauce
Cantonese Roast Duck
Cantonese Spring Rolls
Cashew Chicken
Char Kway Teow
Char Siu (barbequed pork)
Chengdu Chicken
Chicken and Spinach Soup
Chicken Chow Mein
Chicken
Egg RollChicken
Glazed in Bean Sauce 
Chicken in Oyster Sauce
Chicken
in Rice Casserole (Wat Gai Fan)
Chicken
Lo Mein
Chicken Salad with Rice Sticks
Chicken Stock
Chicken VelvetChicken Wings, marinated and bakedChicken with Almonds
Chicken with Green and Red Peppers
Chicken
With Peaches
Chicken
With Snow Peas (Mangetout)
Chicken with Walnuts
Chicken Wontons
Chili Oil
(Hot Chili Oil)
Chile Sauce
Chilled
Melon Bowl
Chilled
Melon Fruit Salad
Chinese
Beef Hot Pot – Fondue Chinoise

Chinese
Broccoli (Gai Lan) With Oyster Sauce
Chinese
Chicken Salad – with mandarin oranges and chow mein noodles
Wok
Cooked Chinese Broccoli With Oyster Sauce
Chinese
Cold Chicken (Red Cooked Chicken)Chinese
Coq au Vin
Chinese
Crockpot Chicken 

Chinese
Fruit Salad 

Chinese
Green Beans  (Szechuan Green Beans)
Chinese
No Meat Balls (vegetarian)
Chinese
Pan-fried Dumplings (potstickers)
Chinese
Pizza (vegetarian)
Chinese
Potato Salad – from the United States Potato Board
Chinese
Steak with Peppers
Chinese Sponge Cake with Coconut Icing
Chinese-Style Roast Turkey

Chocolate
Dipped Fortune Cookies
Chop
Suey With Pork, Shrimp and Quail EggsClams
in Black Bean Sauce
Clam Sycee

Cocktail
Buns (also called Coconut Buns)

Coconut Balls
Cold
Cooked Chicken (also called Soy Sauce or Red-Cooked Chicken)
Cold Lemon Chicken
Cold Szechuan Noodles
Crab Rangoon
Crabmeat Ragoon – (reader favorite)
Crab Puffs – a Crab Rangoon recipe by Shirley
Fong-Torres
Cream Corn Soup
with Crabmeat
Crispy
Chicken Legs
Curried
Turkey Dinner (Leftover Turkey Recipe)
Curry Chicken
Curry Chicken in Clay Pot
Curried
Chicken – with potatoes, seasoned with yellow curry paste
Deep-fried Crullers
Deep-fried Squid With Salt and Pepper Mix
Deep fried tofu
Dinner Buns with Coconut Milk
Dofu fa (Soybean Jelly)
Drunken Chicken 
Dry Garlic Spareribs
Dumpling
Dipping Sauce
Durian Ice Cream
Easy
Asian-Inspired Skillet Dinner (reader favorite)
Easy Baked Orange Pork Chops

Easy
Chinese Cucumber Salad
Easy
Chinese Green Beans
Easy
Peanut Sauce
Egg Custard Tarts
Egg Drop (Egg Flower) Soup
– standard recipe, Low Carb
Egg
Drop Soup – Low Fat
Egg Foo Yung (Egg Foo Young), Stir-fried
Egg Fu Yung, Restaurant Style (Deep-fried)
Egg Foo Yung – Spicy with Shrimp
Eggplant Shu Mai
Egg Rolls
Egg Roll Wrappers
Eight Precious Pudding

Chinese Recipes – F to H

5 Minute
Baked Wonton Wrappers
5
Minute Chocolate Dipped Fortune Cookies
5
Minute Cream Corn Soup
Five
Spice Peanuts

Flowering
Chives Stir-fry
Fortune
Cookies (Basic Recipe)
Flower Rolls (Hua Chuan, Hua Juan)
Four Happiness Pork

Fried
Fish Fillets and Vegetables
Fried Mock Oyster (Vegetarian)
Fried Pork with Spring Onions – (reader favorite)
Fried Rice – Mama Choo Cha’s Egg Fried Rice
Fried Rice with Chinese Sausage
Fried Rice With Ham
Fried Rice -
Quick and Easy Pineapple Fried Rice
Fried
Rice – with Canned Tuna (reader favorite)
Fried Rice with Shrimp and Ham
Fried Won Tons

Fried Wonton
Garlic Chicken
Garlic Sauce
Garlic Scallops Stir Fry
General Tso’s Chicken
Ginger Beef
Ginger Beef
Ginger Beef with Red Ginger (Szechuan dish)
Ginger
Garlic Peppered Beef 
Ginger Ice Cream
Ginger Scallion Sauce
Glazed
Carrots
Governors Chicken
Gow Gees

Green Dumplings
Green Tea Cakes
Grilled Ginger Chicken
Gyoza (Japanese Potstickers)
Hainanese Chicken Rice
Ham Stuffed
Turnovers
Handpulled Noodles
Har Gau
Har Gau with Oyster Sauce
Hawaiian Luau Barbecued Beef Ribs
Hoisin Dip
Honey Beef
Honey Garlic Barbecue Pork/Spareribs
Honey Ham With Asian Pears
Honey Walnut Prawns
Hot and Sour Shrimp Lo Mein
Hot and Sour Soup

Hot Bananas with Cinnamon Coconut Topping
Hot Mustard
Dip
Hot Pepper and Black Bean Sauce
Hunan Lamb
Hunan Smoked Duck
Chinese Recipes – I to N
Italian
Style Tofu (fusion)
Jiaozi Chinese Dumplings (boiled dumplings)
Jook
King Bao Gi Ding Princess Chicken
Kung Pao Chicken 
Kung Pao Chicken (stir-fry)
Kung Pao Shrimp
Kung Pao Turkey with Roasted Almonds
Lamb with Scallions (Mongolian)
Leftover
Chicken Stir-fry with Red and Green Peppers
Lemon Chicken (Stir-fried)
Lemon Chicken (Steamed)
Lettuce Wraps
Lion’s Head Meatballs
Lobster Cantonese
Lobster Sauce
Longevity Noodles
Lotus Wraps
Lychee
Granita
Maddy’s
Fried Rice with Chicken and Prawns
Mah Gu Gai Pin
Mandarin Crepes (Chinese Pancakes)
Mango Muffins
Mango Ice Cream
Mango Pudding
Mapo Dofu
Matchstick Chicken (Hot Chicken Salad)
Mini Spring Rolls
Mock Crab Claws (vegetarian)
Mock Fish Eggplants
Mongolian Beef with Vegetables
Mongolian Chicken
Mongolian Hot Pot
Mongolian
Hot Pot with Tofu
Mongolian Style Roast Lamb
Moo Goo Gai Pan
Mooncakes
Mu Shu Pork
Nian Gao – Chinese New Year Cake
Noodles with Meat Sauce Mixture

Chinese Recipes – O to Q

One
Dish Braised Chicken Rice
Orange Beef (Chun Pei Ngao Yuk)
Orange Chicken – quick and easy
Orange Chicken with Red Chiles
Orange Pork Chop Stir-fry
Oriental Paté

Oriental
Rotisserie-Style Chicken BreastOriental-Style Sea Scallops
Oyster Sauce
Oyster Sauce Chicken
Panfried Noodles
Paper-Wrapped Chicken
Peanut Dressing
Peanut Sauce – Chinese
Peanut Sticky Rice
Peking
Chicken
Peking Duck
Peking Dust
Pepper Steak
P.F. Chang’s Zodiac Noodles
Pickled Carrots
Pina Colada
Tofu Shake
Plum Sauce

Plum Sauce with Allspice
Popped Rice with Shrimp
Pork
and Plum Stir-fry (Pork tenderloin, stir-fried, with plum sauce)Pork and Shrimp Won Ton
Pork Chops with Sweet Red Bean Paste
Pork or Beef Chop Suey
Pork Dumplings with Shrimp (Potstickers)
Pork Fried Rice
Pork Lo Mein With Ramen Noodles
Pork
Marinade
Pork, shredded, with Peking Sauce or Hot Bean Paste
(Quick and Easy)
Pork Shu Mai
Pork-stuffed Mo Qua (fuzzy melon)
Pork with Lychees
Potsticker Dip
Potstickers (with Shrimp and Pork)
Potstickers (with Prawns and Chicken or Pork)
Prawn
Crackers

Preserved
KumquatsPrincess Chicken
Quick
and Easy Chinese Mushroom Soup
Quick and Easy Turkey Stir-fry
Quick
and Hot Dumpling SauceChinese Recipes – R to S
Raspberry Almond Float(a variation on Almond Float
with fresh raspberries)
Red Bean Paste
Red Bean Soup
Red-cooked Beef
Red,
White, and Blue Tofu
Roast Turkey
Sago Cakes
Salmon
RangoonSalt
and Pepper Shrimp
Salt and Pepper Spareribs
Salty Soybean Milk Soup
Sate Beef
Sauteed Prawns with Hot Sauce
Szechuan Prawns with Hot Sauce
Prawns With Hot Bean Sauce
Scrambled
Eggs With Chives

Scrambled
Eggs With Chives and Sour CreamSesame Chicken 
Sesame Seed Balls
Sesame Seed Fried Custard
Shanghai Pan-Fried Noodles
Shanghai Stir-fried Noodles
Shanghai Vegetable Rice
Shrimp Lo Mein With Three Vegetables
Shrimp and Scallop Shiu Mai in Spicy Mango Sauce
Shrimp Balls
Appetizer
Shrimp Toast
Shrimp with Green Tea Leaves
Shrimp with Lobster Sauce
Shrimp with Lobster Sauce (white sauce
version) (reader favorite)
Shu Mai (Siu Mai) Dumplings – (reader favorite)
Sichuan Chile Sauce
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Lu Cuisine

21 June, 2010 (07:53) | Chinese Food Culture, Chinese food recipes | By: admin

Lu Cuisine, also known as Shandong Cuisine, is originated from the native cooking styles of East China€™s Shandong Province. Its history can date back to Qin Dynasty (221 BC to 207 BC). It has become one of China’s eight cuisines since Song Dynasty (960 AD to 1Ꭺ AD). It truly is the most prevalent distinct regional cuisine in China, well-liked through out Beijing, Tianjin and Northeast China.

Lu Cuisine is more inclined to keep the freshness of ingredients than other cuisines and fond of salt flavor, featured with tender, savory and crisp. It is particular about making soup.

Seafood is probably the most notable ingredient of Lu Cuisine as Shandong is really a costal province, which includes scallops, prawns, clams, sea cucumbers, and squid, which are all local ingredients of exemplary high quality. Besides seafood, corn, peanuts, grains such as small grains, millet, wheat, oat and barley, and staple vegetables of Shandong province such as potatoes, tomatoes, cabbages, mushrooms, onions, garlic and eggplants.

You will find more than thirty cooking techniques applied in Lu Cuisine, among which Bao method (quick-fry) and Pa process are frequently and well used in Lu Cuisine. In Bao (quick-fry), foods are deep-fried in incredibly hot oil over high heat and then the oil is poured out and seasonings are added to the food, which is left within the wok. Pa method, derived from Shandong Province, is first to cut the well-cooked ingredient into a particular shape, then stick some powder and fry it into golden, finally add some kind of sauce to sauté it while stirring continuously.

Lu Cusine Menu

Stir-Fried Eggs with Crab Roe                                                   炒芙蓉Ÿ¹é
Stewed Shrimps with Mushrooms and white Fungus Â     迎宾花篮
Stewed Dried Shrimps with Bamboo Shoots                        海ç±³珍珠笋
Braised Intestines in Brown Sauce    Â                                    九转大肠
Braised Prawns       Â                          Â                                                焖大虾