Notes about Recipes in this book

• Plant-based “beef” with asparagus filling (素牛肉餡)

  • mainman on February 08, 2021

    I made this with beyond meat and really enjoyed it. Nice to have a bit of a change from the usual vegetarian dumpling fillings. The asparagus is kind of in the background - does more to lighten up the texture than add to the flavor. I think many other vegetables would work as long as they weren't too wet. I had a little bit of leftover dumpling dough by the time I used all of the filling, just enough to make one scallion pancake.

• Dumpling dipping sauce (餃子蘸醬)

  • j.va on May 11, 2021

    makes plenty of sauce...good for lots of people or to keep stashed in your fridge. heat lovers will want to increase the amount of chili sauce (I used sambal oelek) but as the sauce sits and ages (the chopped cilantro will gradually yellow after about half a week), the flavor that develops is really good. used with dumplings and scallion pancakes. delicious.

• Braised daikon (紅燒蘿蔔)

  • jenburkholder on September 19, 2022

    Good braised daikon dish. The flavors come together well and the sweet bites of jujube are particularly nice. The amount of liquid is a bit overkill, though - two cups would be plenty.

• Chinese purple seaweed and tofu soup (紫菜豆腐湯)

  • mjes on August 24, 2021

    Chinese zicai is Japanese nori although the default shape differs. This is essential egg drop soup with tofu and nori ... an absolutely splendid and simple soup.

• Gai lan with oyster mushrooms (芥藍炒杏鮑菇)

  • kitchen_chick on April 22, 2026

    This is a nice simple veggie dish, though I thought it needed more hoisin sauce than the recipe calls for and I added a bit of sea salt at the end to balance it.

• Gai lan with sesame sauce (芝麻醬蒸芥藍)

  • jenburkholder on May 10, 2021

    Very good, very easy. Could also just sauté the gai lan before mixing with the paste.

• Carrots and celery with spiced tofu (豆乾炒胡蘿蔔芹菜絲)

  • kitchen_chick on October 13, 2022

    Nice tofu-veggie dish. I had plain pressed tofu, so I added some 5-spice to the dish to make up for the lack of "spice" in my tofu.

• Zucchini egg crepe (節瓜攤餅)

  • kitchen_chick on August 05, 2022

    Nice, simple. Great for breakfast. I added some shredded carrot.

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