Most often cooked with
Soy sauce
Spring onion
Garlic
Ginger
Sugar
CornflourRecipes with shaoxing wine
Beef Chow Mein
Beef coated in cornflour and seared in batches in a pan hot enough to smoke, with the sauce going in only at the very end.
55 minServes 4
BeefChineseLeafy greens
Dan Dan Noodles
Noodles over a pool of chilli oil, sesame paste and vinegar, topped with crisp fried pork and preserved vegetable.
30 minServes 2
30 minutesChinesePork
Kung Pao Chicken
Diced chicken stir-fried fast with dried chillies and peanuts in a sauce that is sour, sweet and salty in that order.
28 minServes 4
30 minutesChickenChinese
Red-Braised Pork Belly
Pork belly caramelised in sugar and braised in soy and wine until the fat turns to jelly and the sauce to lacquer.
2 hrServes 4
ChinesePorkStews