Recipes

Two-Pepper Chicken (双椒鸡) is a salty stir-fry dish features green chili pepper and green Sichuan pepper with chicken. Two-pepper means chili peppers and Sichuan peppers. It belongs to one of the Sichuan cuisine branches called Jiang Hu Cuisine.  The dish is fiercely spicy and splendidly numbing and its strong aroma is a mix of aroma from green chili pepper and green Sichuan pepper.

Warning: if you have low tolerance of spiciness or not into the numbing effect of Sichuan Pepper, you'd better not try this dish. 

Preparation Time: 30 minutes

Cook Time: 10 minutes

Ingredients:

Spicy Steamed Pork Belly with Rice Flour (香辣粉蒸肉) is another very delicious dish features pork belly.  The dish needs to be served hot and steamy. With long enough steaming, the pork belly will become very soft in texture, so soft that you do not even need to chew.

Because of the soft texture, this dish is very much enjoyable for seniors or young children or any one with tooth issues. Many bacon lovers are afraid of the excessive fat coming with of of the most delicious part of pork. With this dish,  the fat is steamed out...

Steamed Sliced Pork Belly with Preserved Vegetable (咸烧白 / 梅菜扣肉) is a steamed dish with plenty of fat and meat. It's salty and fragrant. You don't feel it's greasy if the dish is prepared well and served warm.  The pork belly slices have a very soft texture, which makes it popular among seniors and young children.  When it's ready, the pork belly has a gold brown color while the preserved vegetable is dark brown. 

Some variations exist due to different taste preference in different regions in China. In Sichuan, usually Sichuan Peppercorns and dried chili pepper will...

Spareribs Soup with Wintermelon and Mung Beans (冬瓜绿豆排骨汤) is a traditional Chinese dish widely enjoyed in Summer time as it's said to be one of the dishes helping your body cope with heat. Sometimes the soup is served as cold dish. 

There are some variations of this soup mainly on the ingredients. Below is the bare minimum combination of the ingredients for the recipe.  Other ingredients may be added into the soup such as sugar or seaweed .  

Preparation: Time: 10 minutes

Cook Time: 1 - 2 hour in low heat, over 4 hour in...

Brown Braised Chicken (黄焖鸡) is a very popular dish in China recently.  The major reason for its popularity are as follows: 1. It takes relatively short time to prepare and cook using pressure cooker; 2. The base taste is acceptable for almost everyone while extra spices could be added as you prefer; 3. Due to its 2 reasons above, many restaurants in China are centered its menu on the dish. There are even franchised stores operated similar to fast-food chain such as KFC.

Preparation Time: 10 minutes

Cook Time: 8 - 10 minutes

Ingredients:

1. Chicken (bone...