Chinese Cooking Tips
Eileen Yin-Fei Lo is considered to be the best Chinese cook in United States. She has published 10 books so far on that subject. The 10th book is ‘My Grandmother’s Chinese Kitchen’.
While showing the demonstration, she talks about her grandmother and her qualities. Her grandmother is the one who taught her mannerisms in cooking and how to cook. One great thing which she taught is, always give the best part of the food to your elders. Never give spoilt or burned part to them. This is certainly a great quality and everyone watching should keep this thing in mind.
The recipe is simple yet amazing. It has all the spices of Chinese food!
Eileen Yin-Fei Lo Is widely considered to be THE expert on Chinese cooking in the United States. The award winning author has just published her 10th cook book called My Grandmother’s Chinese Kitchen. It’s full of recipes and some amazing live lesson that she learnt from her grandmother. Ilene, good morning!
Good morning, so nice to see you again.
It’s so great to have you here!
Thank you very much.
You’ve talked about your grandmother in other books, yes. But this the first one devoted to her. Yes. Why did you decided to do that?
She is the one of the most, a.. a.. beautiful person, kind and never raised her voice and teach me all the, the manner and how to cook, always used food. So, example, if you cook the rice, you always give the best part to your older, you don’t give the one is you know, burned or anything..
So, the best part goes to your elders.
Exactly!
You show respect. And meanwhile, she was teaching you really all of this wonderful skills that you are sharing with us today!
Yes.
Basically how to cook.
Yes, I was cooking since 5 years old! So, let’s make the beef.
Ok.
Now what we are going to do…
This is beef with peppers and black beans
Yes. No, this is ginger juice and you squeeze the ginger juice with garlic press and then — garlic press I’m going to add something here.
So, put the ginger to a garlic press,
Yes
Ya,
And great effort,
Ok,
Yes,
and great—-
So you make a Chinese marinate?
Yes, and this is a oyster sauce of course it’s a wonderful to cook
Oyster sauce, ya
with these, and this is livid sesame oil, and Soya sauce.
sesa— Soya sauce,
I think this is a ss…. Salt. Sugar.
Ok, sugar and salt
And corn starch
A bit of corn starch.
Now this you can make it half hour before so you can prepare your sauce and you can cut your pepper and cooking is one two three, very very fast.
Oh, that’s great. So you can, if you only have a half hour to let it marinate, is that enough?
Oh yes, plenty because it’s
Ok
Cut it smaller, and the ginger juice with the Chinese — penetrate into the meat and look—– add the brat—-
Add the ginger juice, what the hack?
And you have already made your sauce,
Yes, and the sauce is, oyster sauce and sesame se.. seed and sugar, white pepper, corn starch.
Ok
So,
Excellent!
So, you have heated your —-
Yes, I forgot to —- it earlier, as soon as I do it earlier, but
You want it to get nice and hot
Ya,
Ok,
Now I, today, you are the chef and I am the suchef
You are the suchef and I am the chef,
Yes,
All right Eileen, you ask for it.
What you are going to cook, now we are going to add
Peanut oil
Peanut oil, ok. Now you ——
I got hard on the fire here there, is that ok,
Ya. That’s very good.
— Let the ginger go in
That’s the ginger ok?
And you know what?
Hu..
You just let that cook in a bit. Ok
You want me to leave it alone?
Ok?
That’s ok
Now, little bit salt.
Salt,
Just a little bit, not very much.
All right, ok
And then just cook in, and then now the pepper goes in
Ok, so once you cook these peppers,
Ya,
You pull this out again?
Ya,
Ok
Because
Can I put them back here?
Ya
See very fast. Because on television you don’t have to cook it all and
right
just show the people just how to do it. Very easy, simple
ok, and then what are we putting in after this?
We’re going to clean the wall
Ok
Because we —-
Ok
Now, be careful, let me do it. Because,
You want to do it? All right,
Ya, I don’t want to burn your hand. See,
Ok
That was very hot.
Ok, We only have about a minute left Eileen
Ok, very fast.
Could you little bit of peanut oil in here,
Ok, and then
bean paste.
Bean paste, very key
Ok,
Now you break it up.
Ok, breaking it up.
Ok, this goes in.
The meat goes in
ya
And how long do we left it cook?
A, this is little above 3-4 minutes the most.
Ok
But now — little bit time to do it so we just have one it’s already done
Ok, so you put the peppers back in,
Yes, put the peppers back in like these
And then you end up with something like this
Ya,
And you add the sauce to this,
the sauce to this, ya, do I have time to add the sauce?
Sure Eileen
Yes, yes
There you go
Just a like this
Ok, lets look the finished product is that, absolutely beautiful.
And this is the first meal that you made when you first come to the States?
Ya, and my father in law said where is the bread? And I said — I don’t have any bread, rice only.
rice only
ya,
that’s what happened because Italian always eat.. eat bread with the food.
But you taught him, rice is better, right
Yes
Feel so good. All right. I lean here. We’re going —– take a taste
Yes
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