Notes about Recipes in this book

• Stir-fried bok choy

  • anya_sf on September 13, 2024

    Recipe calls for chicken broth not chicken breast

  • anya_sf on September 14, 2024

    Good, quick and easy. I used baby bok choy and cut of the bases to be cooked like the white stalks. Water was fine instead of chicken broth. To serve 4 people, I'd increase the bok choy to at least 1 lb.

• Swiss chard with black bean sauce

  • christina_nca1d5 on April 21, 2026

    I made this without the bacon because we keep kosher. It was pretty tasty and must be even better with the bacon. I enjoyed the sour zing.

• Beef and bean curd delight

  • chawkins on February 18, 2018

    Quite delightful, the dish came together in no time. A good substitute for mapo tofu when you are not in the mood for spicy.

  • kitchen_chick on March 12, 2019

    This is one of the first dishes I made from the first cookbook I bought back in the early 1990s, and I still make this dish. Sometimes I add a few dried chilies at the beginning with the ginger for a touch of heat.

• Chinese beef burgers

  • kitchen_chick on December 24, 2022

    It's fun to go back through older cookbooks and find recipes I overlooked in the past. This makes a very tasty burger. I substituted jicama for the water chestnuts. My husband ate his on a bun, and I ate mine on top of salad greens with kewpie mayo and a bit sriracha. I can also see making this into meatballs and making a sub with them.

• Five-spice broiled pork chops

  • chawkins on October 16, 2014

    I was going to make the imperial pork chops, from Yan's The Joy of Wokking, that needs to be marinated for couple of hours but I ran out of time from baking, so had to find some quick and easy recipe for the pork chops. This fits quick and easy to a t, and it was quite delicious for what it was.

• Chicken in a clay pot

  • chawkins on April 09, 2015

    This was very good. I thought I was making a regular clay pot chicken, which I liked a lot already, to use up an opened can of bamboo shoots, then I saw the optional fermented bean curd on the ingredient list, of course I had to try that. It added a new dimension to my beloved dish.

• Tofu with minced turkey

  • kitchen_chick on October 02, 2022

    Nice stir fry. I added about 3-4oz of chopped long beans, which was a really nice addition. I stir-fried the beans first to get them a bit charred then added the turkey and proceeded with the recipe as written.