CHINESE FOOD

Dan dan noodles is a classic dish of Chinese Sichuan cuisine. It consists of a spicy sauce containing preserved vegetables, chili oil, Sichuan peppers, pork, and scallions served over noodles. In American Chinese cuisine and with many modern vendors, ground peanuts, peanut butter, or sesame paste are added, resulting in a stark contrast from the old, authentic version.

The same sauce is frequently served over poached chicken (called Bon Bon or Bong Bong Chicken), and on steamed, meat-filled dumplings in another Sichuan dish called suanla chaoshou.

A variety of English spellings are used. The first word may be either Dan, Dun, or Tan. There may or may not be a hyphen between the first two words. The last word may be Mein, Mian, or Noodles. The name refers to a type of carrying pole (a dan dan) that was used by ambulatory vendors who sold the dish on the streets. Quite literally, the name translates as Peddler’s noodles.

Ingredients

For the noodles
250g egg noodles
8 Bok choy, leaves only

For the sauce
4 tbsp Tianjin preserved vegetable, or pickled Chinese cabbage, available from specialist shops
1 tbsp groundnut oil
3 Spring onions, green parts only, finely chopped
3 tsp light Soy sauce
2 tsp dark Soy sauce
1 tbsp chilli oil, to taste Read more…

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Ingredients:

Har Gow Dough:

1 cup Wheat starch
2 Tbsp Potato starch
1/4 tsp Salt
1/2 cup boiling water, plus 3 TB Boiling water
1 tsp Lard3

Filling:

Wheat starch for dusting
1/2 lb Raw shrimp, peeled and -chopped
1/4 lb Precooked salad shrimp, -chopped
2 ounces Pork fat, chopped fine
1/4 cup Bamboo shoots, chopped
1/4 tsp Ground white pepper
1/4 tsp Grated fresh ginger
1/2 tsp Salt
1/2 tsp Sesame oil
1 Tbsp Chopped green onion
1 Egg white
1 TB Dry sherry
1 TB Cornstarch

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Ingredients:

300 g (0.66 lb) glutinous rice floor
200 g (0.44 lb) non-glutinous rice flour
250 g (0.55 lb) green beans
250 g (0.55 lb) sugar
20 g (1 1/2 tbsp) cooking oil

Cooking methods:

1. Wash the green beans and cook in 500 g (1 cup) of water till the beans explode. Put the beans into a container to cool off.

2. Mix the two kinds of rice flours. Add the sugar, oil and the cooled off beans and mix well. Put the mixture in a porcelain plate on whose surface oil has been rubbed. Steam for 45 minutes and the cakes are ready.

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Ingredients:

1) Mix glutinous rice flour and  corn flour in a large bowl
2) Add water and condensed milk, mix well as soft paste roll
3) Pour into pain container and steam in high heat for 15 minutes
4) Cut paste roll into 6 balls while it cool down, press a hole on ball by thumb
5) Steam red bean paste with 1 tbsp of water until soft, let it cool
6) Filled red bean paste into rice ball’s hole by a spoon, seal the rice ball
7) Rolling the rice ball gently until the ball is total sealed
Roll over on grinded coconut, dish up and serve in cool

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Ingredients:

• 1/4 pound barbequed pork,
• 3 dried black mushrooms
• 1/2 cup mung bean sprouts
• 1/2 medium carrot
• 2 tablespoons chopped red bell pepper
• 2 teaspoons dark soy sauce
• 2 teaspoons oyster sauce
• 2 tablespoons chicken broth
• 1/2 teaspoon granulated sugar
• a few drops sesame oil, to taste
• 2 tablespoons oil for stir-frying, or as needed
• 12 spring roll wrappers
• 1 lightly beaten egg, or 2 tablespoons cornstarch mixed with 1 tablespoon water
• 3 cups oil for deep-frying, or as needed

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