Chinese food

4suzie

What a fantastic thread I love Chinese food thank you so much kwaichi :T

crakerjacker

Hi

Great thread, I love it.

Do you have a recipe for chicken in OK sauce please?

Hopelessly_Hopeful

Brilliant thread

Apologies in advance if a stupid question - how do I buy black beans? Dried? Do they come in a can? Any advice appreciated!

HHX

attentionseeker1

Does anyone know how to make Chinese salt and chilli squid like you get as a starter in a Chinese restaurant? I realised that squid is actually quite economical to buy from the supermarket, even preprepared, whereas the dish costs 5 pounds from our local Chinese. I gave it a go using a a cornflour coating and sliced spring onions/chillies but it seemed floury and bland without the light crunchy coating the Chinese does...

invisiblegirls

kingchristo88 wrote: »

this is a great thread i would love to know how to make orange chicken and also chinese spare ribs i would just like to say thanks to kwai your my hero
hope you can help with these recipes carnt wait to get cookin

I use chings recipe from channel 5 for my ribs, stunning results http://www.five.tv/shows/chinese-food-in-minutes/recipes/sweet-and-sour-wuxi-ribs

Aarons_mummy

Wow I can't believe I've never seen this thread before!

Especially the chicken and sweetcorn soup, I realise it's only £2 from the local chinese but this will be even better and cheaper yay. Also my little ones dad LOVES chinese curry sauce, he'd save a fortune if I could make this and I would save by not buying a chinese lol.

Many thanks to Kwai for his effort

Hopelessly_Hopeful

Hopelessly_Hopeful wrote: »

Brilliant thread

Apologies in advance if a stupid question - how do I buy black beans? Dried? Do they come in a can? Any advice appreciated!

HHX

Bump

Can anyone help please?

HHx

Sunnyday

Hopelessly_Hopeful wrote: »

Bump

Can anyone help please?

HHx

It says here that you can buy both http://www.whfoods.com/genpage.php?tname=foodspice&dbid=2

Not sure where would stock them before, i`ve never noticed them on supermarket shelves but then again i`ve never looked specifically for them.

If you find them anywhere please post as i may give them ago myself, hubs loves them.

SD

hotcookie101

I think the black beans used for chinese cooking are fermented, salted and in a can. The dried or canned black beans above, are regular ones, like you use in mexican cooking etc
hope this helps

Swan_2

Hopelessly_Hopeful wrote: »

Brilliant thread

Apologies in advance if a stupid question - how do I buy black beans? Dried? Do they come in a can? Any advice appreciated!

HHX

hi hopeful,
definitely not a stupid question

it's very confusing all the different kinds of beans & the different ways they're prepared

hotcookie101 wrote: »

I think the black beans used for chinese cooking are fermented, salted and in a can. The dried or canned black beans above, are regular ones, like you use in mexican cooking etc
hope this helps

hi hotcookie,
you're right, they're quite different & not interchangeable

well you could try it, but I don't think you'd get the result you want