
Beef and Broccoli
This is the dish that defines Cantonese-American takeaway: thin slices of beef velveted in cornflour and soy so they…
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This is the dish that defines Cantonese-American takeaway: thin slices of beef velveted in cornflour and soy so they…

This is what street vendors across southern China make in big shallow woks at the front of their stalls, head-on prawns…

This is the gentle Cantonese-style stir-fry you cook for someone new to Chinese food: no chilli, no fermented bite, just textural balance

Fermented black beans are the funk you can't fake; this is the dish where they earn their place at the front of the wok

This is the Chinese answer to the deli pickle, a quick-pickled cucumber spear that's ready overnight and lives in a jar…

Sesame prawn toast is the British-Chinese takeaway classic that grew up in 1960s London and somehow never made the…

Fried wonton are the deep-fried siblings of the boiled or steamed dim-sum classic: golden, crisp, and almost impossible…

General Tso's chicken is the American-Chinese classic Hunanese restaurateur Peng Chang-kuei invented in Taipei in the…

A vibrant, aromatic sauce that showcases the clean heat of fresh chilli balanced with pungent ginger and umami-rich soy

Thinly sliced beef simmered briefly in dashi with mirin, sake, soy and sugar, alongside sliced onion

Salmon fillets sear skin-side down for crisp skin, then bathe in a quick honey-soy-mirin-ginger reduction that lacquers them

Kung pao (gongbao) shrimp is the seafood cousin of the classic Sichuan gongbao jiding, named for the 19th-century…

Yi mein are the long, slightly chewy Cantonese egg noodles served at birthdays and the New Year because their unbroken…

This is mapo tofu without the pork, where the dried shiitake mushroom steps in and does most of the heavy lifting

Sambal kecap is deceptively simple yet deeply flavorful, a sweet-spicy Indonesian dipping sauce that represents the…

The whole point of this dish is in the knife: the beef must be cut into very thin strips, almost matchsticks, so it…