AIBU to ask for your chinese/Asian recipes?

[Flyingfish2019]

I just like to cook new things and would love to hear your recipes... and I would love to hear if any of you is familiar with a Chinese tea ceremony. Can anyone do it or do it or does it have a spiritual background?

No one?

Hi 👋 I can send you some recipes if you like. Is there anything in particular you would like to know how to make? As for the tea ceremony do you mean the kind that is performed at Chinese weddings?

Yes. I do like to invite other people for dinner (including vegetarians) and what I would love is to have a few dishes to choose from, one vegetarian, one with chicken, one with fish maybe and I‘d like to have this fried rice with eggs... know what I mean? I am not sure how this is called.

My dd is hugely into korean/japanese food and I'm going to attempt this next week as we had it at a restaurant and it's very good. mykoreankitchen.com/galbi-jjim-korean-braised-short-ribs/. We're also going to try kimchi fried rice. I'd love to make ramen at home but the really good broth is a pain to make (boiling bones for hours etc).

The fried rice with egg - do you mean bimimbap?

I forgot how it is called, its fried rice with fried egg and sometimes with veggies. I think you add that light soy sauce... you know, the one that does not really look black but lighter.

Kimchi-fried-rice sounds great.

Iplayer currently has Ken Hom's old cookery series in their cookery section... it's pretty dated but might be a good place to start with some inspiration, he's really good at explaining things and goes through what equipment you might need etc. I think there's an episode on cooking meat, one on cooking veg, etc.

Thanks!

I like stir fried vegetables with garlic and fresh ginger, and soy sauce. You can add thin strips of meat if you prefer. Tamarind, garlic & fresh ginger, sweet sticky sauce is delicious !

Yum.

i use two jamie oliver recipes (one is on you tube with the dumpling sisters) it's called special fried rice and is a great recipe!
next his beef and broccoli turns out very nicely.
last but not least is on you tube by Tip Hero, slow cooker mongolian beef very very yummy

Jackie Kearney's marmalade and cashew tofu is really unusual and nice. It's in her vegan street food cookbook but broadly lots of dried chillies, garlic, tofu cubes, cashew nuts, soy sauce and rough cut marmalade. It is very nice with just plain rice and a side of ginger garlic green beans.

Preserved tofu sauce (preserved tofu is really stinky and mushy, but adds a great rich flavour) tenderstem brocolli is also a nice side, just a cube or two of preserved tofu mashed into a little rice wine, salt, pepper and corn starch slurry. Add the sauce when the tenderstem is approaching being cooked (stir fried).

Also check out mee goreng, a fried noodle dish with a rich sauce that's a little different. Easy to make with or without meat/seafood.

I forgot how it is called, its fried rice with fried egg and sometimes with veggies. I think you add that light soy sauce.

It sounds like it's just vegetable fried rice. You stir fry cold rice with seasonings, then add veggies (usually peas and carrots), then scootch the rice and veggies off to the side and scramble an egg in the pan, and stir it all together.

On YouTube - check out 'SilkyTV'.

She's relatively new, but an Asian Vblogger who specialises in Asian and Vegan food. All of the recipes seem really easy and the ones I've tried have been absolutely fabulous.

She's gonna be one to watch in the future.

I don't think it's vegetable fried rice Steff if it's a fried egg on top and not scrambed in. This is what bimimbap looks like (although it's often just the raw yolk on top which is stirred into the hot rice).

I never had bimimbap button looks delicious on this picture.

for a quick and healthy supper i often have steamed chicken dumplings on stir fried veg w/ soy sauce and chilli flakes. Not chinese but I bloody love beef massaman and rending curries.

Sounds delicious.

Bimibap is amazing - my SIL is Korean and i am really excited as her mum and dad are coming in a few weeks and her my is going to teach me her Bulgogi and Gal-bi (short ribs) - Korea’s food is soooo good and if you fancy something different for desert try this - www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2009/08/how-to-make-patbingsu-korean-shaved-ice-recipe.html

Thanks a lot! BTW how do Koreans serve their food? All at the same time like the Chinese do?

I love cooking Asian food and found this recipe book amazing www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00PQJHIPU/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1&tag=mumsnetforum-21

There were quite a few things I'd tried before but never turned out quite right but I think it's because I never had the right ingredients. For example I'd tried a few char siu recipes but they never tasted great - you really need yellow bean sauce

I'm not near any Chinese supermarkets so buy stuff off amazon. I'd recommend yellow bean sauce, beanthread noodles, guochujang (you'll need in any Korean recipe) and dried fermented black beans off amazon. You can get most other stuff like chilli oil and chilli bean paste, miso paste etc from the supermarket.

If you do get this book, Chinese spag bol is a favourite of ours!

On YouTube - check out 'SilkyTV'.

Have you got a link? Nothing was coming up for me! But I love Asian food YouTube channels

For Korean stuff I watch Maangchi
www.youtube.com/user/Maangchi
Wife's cuisine www.youtube.com/channel/UCStb6xqP228XXUykrrY-_CQ

For vegan/vegetarian Asian cooking I watch
Mommytang she does Korean vegan mukbang and recipes www.youtube.com/channel/UCUrDSBMcDd-oPYdTXoGW7Uw
In the pantry they do vegetarian bento boxes www.youtube.com/channel/UC8WQtV9MTpFHi-SVHHGmnaA
www.youtube.com/user/ryoya1983 a Japanese vegan channel

Usually a few dishes and they are shared - there is lots of etiquette around eating and who gets served first but I didn't know a huge amount of the details only that it is eldest first

Maangchi is the kingpin of Korean food. I was using her site for recipes years before YouTube. She's also a very entertaining host.

Search for "Chinese Cooking Demystified" for a great channel on traditional Chinese food, done in stages with the techniques explained.