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Kenergy Donating Member (834 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-03-06 03:40 PM
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Can anyone link me to recipes for Chinese
food like they make it in the restaurants?

Thanks
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eleny Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-03-06 03:43 PM
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1. What are your favorite dishes?
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eleny Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-03-06 07:55 PM
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2. Here's one
Chinese Restaurant Recipes - Stir-fried Beef With Oyster Sauce Recipe
http://chinesefood.about.com/od/beef/r/BeefOysterSauce.htm

And there's a link to a cookbook - Chinese Cookery Secrets: How to Cook Chinese Restaurant Food at Home

Good luck!
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eyesroll Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-03-06 08:16 PM
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3. For sweet and sour (whatever)...
Take a small can of tomato paste, and dilute it with two cans of water. Add one big can pineapple chunks and the juice. Add apple cider vinegar, brown sugar, and light soy sauce to
taste (I've found about a quarter to a third cup each works with this recipe). Thicken with a cornstarch slurry. It's remarkably similar to the bright red sweet & sour sauce used in the restaurant recipes.

I usually sautee a chopped red onion, thinly sliced carrot, and chopped bell peppers (whatever color) in oil. For meat, just do chicken or pork chunks the same way. I don't do it deep fried, but you could, too.

Add the sauce to the cooked veggies/meat, and simmer for a little while.

Serve over steamed white rice.
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Warpy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-04-06 07:28 AM
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4. Without knowing what you're looking for
and what style the restaurant in question uses, there is no way to link you with "restaurant" Chinese recipes.

China is a big country with four major cuisines and dozens of minor cuisines. Restaurants owned by older people tend to be Cantonese, while those started by more recent arrivals can be Shanghai, Sichuan, Mongolian, or any of the offshoots thereof.

Even telling us whether everything in the restaurant is in brown sauce or clear sauce would be helpful.

Without clarification, we can't help you. You'll have to do your own search. Good luck.
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Kenergy Donating Member (834 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-04-06 11:31 AM
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5. Thank you all for the info ! n/t
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eleny Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-04-06 12:16 PM
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6. I hope you got a helpful start
Btw, it's hot here today and I don't feel like doing any cooking at all. So I decided to order some Chinese delivery tonight!
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