Chinese recipes

Sesame Noodles

Sesame Noodles can be found on just about every Chinese menu these days and for good reason, Sesame Noodles are wonderfully addicting just by…

Stir-Fry Celery with Ham

A quick, easy, crunchy and tasty vegetable dish. Just two main ingredients! Yes, that's right, just two ingredients. This dish is really, extremely,…

Fried Rice with Tempeh

This is a delicious and healthy way to have fried rice. The tempeh provides a salty nuttiness similar to adding bacon, but with healthy goodness…

grilled fish with soy celery sauce

very easy to make, with minimum ingredients, can be make with sauce or dry.

Eggplant Szechuan-style

Year of the Rooster ! A most Happy and Prosperous and Fortunate New Year to all my Chinese friends! Many years ago - too many - I got a recipe…

Vegetarian Fried Mee Hoon (Chinese Style)

cooked with fermented soy bean paste/taucu, chillies, cabbage and shiitake mushrooms.

Crispy Honey Chili Chicken

Crispy Honey laced chicken is actually been in our dinner rotation for years, the heat of red chilies and sweet punch of honey is match made for…

Hoisin Sauce

Taste before serving as it's quite easy to adjust the recipe to suit your palette :-) Because of the acidity and salt content, this should keep…

Fish and Ginger Congee

I like my congee quite thick so the ratio of water to rice for me is only (!) 8:1, so about 2 litres of water for 200g rice. This makes about 4…

My Soup for Losing Weight

I hope I am right when I consider this as my soup for losing weight. Well, its all in the mind and hopefully it works. This is a superb soup anyway,…

Chinese Almond Cookies

A basic and delicious version of the popular Chinese cookie - minus the lard! I prefer sliced almonds throughout the dough rather than the single…

Fortune Cookies

Kung Pao Chicken

This recipe is much closer to how Kung Pao chicken is done in China. I don't know why restaurants here in the United States try to "Americanize" it,…

Fresh Lettuce wraps with chicken - San choy bau

The fresh, crisp lettuce cups in this dish are why it is called San choy bau...which roughly means "raw…

Healthy Beef, Broccoli and Brown Rice

A classic takeaway alternative so that you can avoid the greasy version :-)…