Egg Fried Rice
The test of any wok cook: separate grains, wisps of egg through every mouthful, and that faint smoky note from theβ¦
Wok heat, velveting and the balance of salt and sweet. 14 tested Chinese recipes, from the everyday to the ambitious.
The test of any wok cook: separate grains, wisps of egg through every mouthful, and that faint smoky note from theβ¦
Juicy jiaozi with a hand-rolled wrapper thick at the centre and thin at the edge β the shape that stops the baseβ¦
Sichuan's most travelled dish, done properly: velveted chicken, blistered dried chillies, the numbing buzz ofβ¦
The most useful stir-fry in the repertoire: velveted beef, crisp-tender broccoli and a savoury oyster sauce gravyβ¦
The Chinese-American classic: crackling battered chicken in a sticky, tangy, faintly sweet sauce with a lick ofβ¦
Cantonese gu lou yuk with a genuinely crisp coating and a sauce balanced by real pineapple and rice vinegar ratherβ¦
Springy egg noodles tossed with chicken and vegetables in a savoury brown sauce, with a few noodles crisped againstβ¦
Shatteringly crisp vegetable spring rolls with a filling that stays crunchy inside the wrapper. Cooling the fillingβ¦
Silken tofu in a fierce, oily red sauce of fermented broad bean paste, minced pork and Sichuan peppercorn. Fifteenβ¦
Cantonese barbecue pork with a sticky, deeply burnished glaze and rings of red at the edge. It takes forty minutesβ¦
Silky wontons with a prawn and pork filling floating in a clear, restorative broth. The wrappers are so thin theyβ¦
Chengdu street noodles: a pool of chilli oil, sesame paste and black vinegar at the bottom of the bowl, topped withβ¦
Sharp with black vinegar, hot with white pepper rather than chilli, and thickened to that distinctive silky bodyβ¦
Lacquered, glass-crisp skin carved off a duck that has been air-dried for a full day, wrapped in thin pancakes withβ¦