Serve the People: A Stir-Fried Journey Through China by Jen Lin-Liu and Eddy Van Damme

  • Pan-fried pork tenderloin

    from Serve the People: A Stir-Fried Journey Through China Serve the People by Jen Lin-Liu and Eddy Van Damme

    • Categories: Stir-fries; Main course; Chinese
    • Ingredients: pork tenderloin; rice wine; leeks; ginger root; sesame oil
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  • Sichuan-style green beans

    • mjes on September 20, 2021

      Ganshou biandou -- these green beans were a major favorite in a group of co-workers choosing a lunch spot. The restaurant would even go as far as to make them if we ran across the street to the grocer's to buy the green beans ourselves if they were out. This recipe is very close to the restaurant's version. A recipe to come back to again and again.

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  • ISBN 10 0151012911
  • ISBN 13 9780151012916
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  • Published Jul 31 2008
  • Format Misc. format
  • Language English
  • Edition 2nd Revised edition
  • Countries United States
  • Publisher Pearson Education (US)
  • Imprint Prentice Hall

Publishers Text

As a freelance journalist and food writer living in Beijing, Jen Lin-Liu already had a ringside seat for China's exploding food scene. When she decided to enroll in a local cooking school - held in an unheated classroom with nary a measuring cup in sight - she jumped into the ring herself. In Serve the People, Lin-Liu gives a memorable and mouthwatering cook's tour of today's China as she progresses from cooking student to noodle-stall and dumpling-house apprentice to intern at a chic Shanghai restaurant. The characters she meets along the way include poor young men and women streaming in from the provinces in search of a "rice bowl" (living wage), a burgeoning urban middle class hungry for luxury after decades of turmoil and privation, and the mentors who take her in hand in the kitchen and beyond. Together they present an unforgettable slice of contemporary China in the full swing of social and economic transformation.

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