Torn cabbage with red fermented beancurd ??????

I have no time to post any recipes lately, life was hectic I was working 6 - 7 days a week. This blog has been neglected hopefully you did not miss me much :).

Today's recipe is vegetarian, a cheap and cheerful stir fried cabbage with a rather unusual sauce. The secret ingredient is fermented red beancurd or hong fu ru ???. This recipe looks Sichuanese but I am quite sure it is from Beijing.

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Stir fried pork and cucumber with yellow bean sauce ????

Chow hwang gua jiang ????
Most people have cucumber raw or pickled, I love stir fried cucumber.

This is a simple stir fry but the recipe is not that common. The original recipe is from Ching Imperial kitchen specially made for Empress Dowager Cixi as condiment or side dish. Traditional raw vegetable pickle was normally served but because Doweger had a tender tummy, her chef made this cooked

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Imperial yogurt ????

Yogurt was not common years ago in China. Yogurt has been and still eaten mainly by the upper northerners, Mongolia area or muslim population who raise sheep/goats and goat milk yogurt is quite common and traditional among them. Today many bigger cities in China are no difference to any cosmopolitan cities in the world, western style yogurt or yogurt drinks are available everywhere.

I don't want

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Beijing style courgette pancake ??????

I didn't know they have courgette (zucchini) in China, all the time I thought courgette is a Western vegetable. Oriental courgette (zucchini) is similar to western type but the skin is usually much lighter in colour, like pastel green. In China they called courgette 'si hu lu ???'.There is one Beijingnese favourite snack 'xiao chi ??' it's courgette pancake which the Beijingnese given it a funny

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Cold chicken noodles with sesame dressing ??????

It hot hot hot over here. I just want to keep away from cooking as much as I can.Cold noodles is something which is quite appetising in this warm weather. Cold noodles with sesame dressing 'ma jiang ren mian' ???? is common in northern part of China as a snack for the warm summer. This cold dressed noodles can be plain (vegetarian) with a bit of vegetables like bean sprouts and/or cucumber. For

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Beijing Pizza ????

???? Jiu Chai Hu BingSome people called this Beijing pizza, it's an old Beijing style snack 'xiao chi ??', made with a thin crunchy cornmeal crust topped with Chinese chives (garlic chives), egg and a little dried shrimp for a more savoury flavour. Very tasty.Pictures are a bit fuzzy due to the hot steam.Here is the recipe - make an approx. 1 x 25cm round pizza (pancake)Ingredients: about 80 g

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Chinese dumplings - Jiaozi ??

I love Chinese dumplings and I am sure many of you too. There are hundreds of different kind of Chinese dumplings, from quite small and dainty to golf ball size, so many different methods to wrap, so many different types of pastry and infinite types of fillings. Dumplings can be boiled, steamed, fried or deep fried. And different parts of China have their own different recipes.Southerners'

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Zha Jiang Mian ??? - Fried sauce noodles

Zha Jiang Mian ??? is fried sauce noodles, I called it Chinese spag bog. These noodles are very popular in most parts of Northern China, especially Beijing.Koreans are also fan of zha jiang noodles, similar name called jajangmyeon. The sauce Korean used is not the same as Chinese, similar flavour but made with black beans called chungjang.Chinese zha jiang sauce is dark brown, salty, sweet and

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