Yau ja gwai, often called Chinese doughnuts or crullers, come in pairs. Dried scallops (conpoy) are expensive, but a little goes a long way. Buy the largest ones you're willing to pay for - the ...

Chinese used to cook a list of luxurious ... you how to handle the most common ingredients in the New Year dishes, which are dried shitake and scallops.

this is a super-speedy Chinese chicken dish. These stir-fried potato slivers have bite and are dressed with sesame oil, white pepper and Chinese wind-dried bacon for a flavour punch. Amy Poon's recipe ...

Use really good fresh eggs, and top-quality soy sauce to drizzle over the dish. Put the conpoy in a bowl, add about 60ml (¼ cup) of boiling water and leave to soak until the dried scallop is ...

This scallop and prawn roulade recipe from Simon Hulstone is an elegant and subtly flavoured seafood starter that requires some knowledge of vacuum cooking to recreate to a high standard. The roulade ...

MSC staff and experts based in Asia tell us what they like to eat for the Chinese Lunar New Year ... “Another popular new year dish in the south is the ‘basin meal’. This means stewing shrimp, prawn, ...

The owner of this silver dish explains how her ancestors, along with many other Europeans, fled China at the start of the Boxer Rebellion in 1911. The dish was smuggled out with other possessions ...

Like tomatoes and eggplant, Chinese lantern plants (Physalis alkekengi) belong to the nightshade family. While lantern plants aren't edible, they do produce bright orange husks that dry to resemble ...

We start with a filling made with minced chicken and prawns, wrapping it with cabbage leaves that encase all the sweetness within when steamed, then finishing it off with al sauce made from dried ...

The invention of Chinese stir – fried dishes greatly ... but it meant to stir cereal in a pot without oil to dry it. In cooking dishes, “chao” means to stir – fry meat or vegetables ...

His account, which was run by his wife ‘Jane’ Zhang Jian, reached over one million followers with a trend even being sparked in China of people trying to create their own ‘dry lunch’.