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We’re gonna show you how to prepare a wok to stir-fry a dish. First of all this wok is made of carbon steel so sometimes it is sitting around you know, also collects dust and so on. Especially we have a little water in the wok so we heat it really hot as you can see there’s its smoking.

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Chinese cuisine is becoming popular and most often we are posed with the question as to how to prepare a new wok for cooking. This video here gives us the simple way to prepare the wok so the food does not stick to the bottom. The chef also demonstrates a basic recipe for stir fry.

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“So Martin what special spices do you recommend people stock up in their pantries?”

“Good, it’s very simple. All you really need is a few basic seasoning. For instance, of course you should have soy sauce. There are 2 types of soy sauce - one is the light soy sauce and then the dark soy sauce. Besides that you should have a bottle of oyster sauce and a bottle of sesame seed oil. Not the blended sesame seed oil but the pure sesame seed oil.

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You’ve made it very easy for us to figure out Chinese cooking through all of your books and your shows. Can you tell us a little bit about this book?

“My - my objective is to demystify Chinese cooking. A lot of people always have a mis-misconception, Chinese cooking is complicated, its hard to do and you cannot find the ingredient and all of these are not really true. The reality is now you can go to any supermarket and pick up all the basic ingredient whether it is seasoning and the entire aisle, you come to Los Angeles the entire aisle is seasoning.

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This is an excerpt from the interview John Gabaldon has with the popular chef Martin Yan regarding his book “Martin Yan Quick and Easy”. He talks about the misconception people have about Chinese cuisine which is actually very simple to cook, which he eliminates in his book.

Mr. Martin in his interview speaks about the different cuisines and most importantly gives the tip that healthy food, diet and exercise surely ensure a long and healthy life!

Tags: campfire cooking, cooking equipment, low carb cooking

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