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Chinese cooking

Wok heat, knife work, five flavors in one plate. From Sichuan numb-spice to Cantonese restraint — the region changes everything.

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Bang-Bang Chicken Salad with chicken, cucumber and peanut butter — China recipe

🇨🇳ChinaMedium

Salads

Bang-Bang Chicken Salad

A popular Chinese-inspired salad of shredded poached chicken with cucumber and green onion, dressed in a creamy, sweet-spicy bang-bang peanut sauce. Silky chicken, crunchy vegetables, and a bold sauce — simple to make and impossible to stop eating.

30 min240 kcal2 serves

🌶️Spicy⚡Quick🥑Keto

Char Siu (Cantonese BBQ Pork) with pork, honey and hoisin sauce — China recipe

🇨🇳ChinaMedium

Meat Dishes

Char Siu (Cantonese BBQ Pork)

A jewel of Cantonese cuisine — pork neck marinated overnight in honey, soy sauce, oyster sauce, hoisin, and Chinese five-spice, then roasted until deeply caramelized with charred edges and a lacquered glaze. 'Char' means fork, 'Siu' means roast. Served with rice, noodles, or stuffed into steamed buns.

45 min420 kcal4 serves

💪High protein

Chicken and Broccoli Stir-Fry with chicken breast, broccoli and soy sauce — China recipe

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Meat Dishes

Chicken and Broccoli Stir-Fry

Thin strips of chicken and broccoli florets cooked fast in a hot pan, then coated in a glossy brown sauce built on soy, oyster sauce, ginger, and garlic. Ready in 25 minutes, high in protein.

25 min320 kcal4 serves

💪High protein⚡Quick

Chicken Stir-Fry with Vegetables with chicken, soy sauce and garlic — China recipe

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Meat Dishes

Chicken Stir-Fry with Vegetables

Chicken thighs and whatever vegetables you have, cooked over maximum heat in a soy-sesame-ginger sauce. The fastest way to clear the fridge without the result tasting like leftovers. Done in 20 minutes if the prep is ready.

25 min350 kcal4 serves

💪High protein⚡Quick🌶️Spicy

Chinese Braised Eggplant with eggplant, soy sauce and garlic — China recipe

🇨🇳ChinaMedium

Appetizers and Sandwiches

Chinese Braised Eggplant

Silky Chinese braised eggplant in a glossy sweet-savory sauce with garlic, ginger and sesame. One of the great vegetarian dishes of Chinese cuisine — the eggplant absorbs every layer of flavor from the sauce.

15 min160 kcal4 serves

🌿Vegetarian⚡Quick

Crispy Duck Salad with duck breasts, lettuce and cucumber — China recipe

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Salads

Crispy Duck Salad

Crispy duck salad is warm pan-fried duck breast sliced over crisp leaves and raw vegetables, dressed with soy, honey, ginger and sesame. The duck is cooked skin-side down from a cold pan so the fat renders out slowly and the skin turns glass-crisp, while the meat stays pink. The rich duck against cold, crunchy vegetables is the point of the dish.

45 min400 kcal4 serves

🥑Keto

Dan Dan Noodles with noodles, pork and chili oil — China recipe

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Cereal and Pasta Dishes

Dan Dan Noodles

Wheat noodles dressed in a sauce built from sesame paste, soy sauce, black vinegar, and chili oil, topped with pork mince cooked until slightly crispy and a scattering of crushed peanuts. This is the street food that gave Sichuan cuisine its international reputation. The heat is real, the numbing tingle from Sichuan pepper is the point, and the sauce comes together in the bowl — not in a pan.

35 min590 kcal4 serves

🌶️Spicy

Egg Fried Noodles with egg noodles, eggs and soy sauce — China recipe

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Cereal and Pasta Dishes

Egg Fried Noodles

Egg fried noodles are a Chinese stir-fry of wheat egg noodles with scrambled egg, carrot, bean sprouts and scallions in a soy-based sauce, an everyday home dish. It takes 20 minutes and one wok. The noodles must be well drained and the wok properly hot; get those two right and the rest follows. The eggs set at the side of the wok and are broken into large pieces, and the sauce goes onto the hot wall of the wok so it caramelizes at once.

20 min710 kcal2 serves

⚡Quick

Fried Rice with rice, egg and garlic — China recipe

🇨🇳ChinaMedium

Cereal and Pasta Dishes

Fried Rice

Day-old cooked rice stir-fried over maximum heat with eggs, vegetables, and soy sauce until every grain is separate, lightly smoky, and coated in sauce. The technique is simple — but two things determine everything: the rice must be cold and dry, and the heat must be as high as your stove allows. Get those right and fried rice is one of the fastest, most satisfying things you can make.

20 min420 kcal4 serves

⚡Quick🌿Vegetarian

Hong Shao Rou (Chinese Red-Braised Pork Belly) with pork belly, rock sugar and star anise — China recipe

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Meat Dishes

Hong Shao Rou (Chinese Red-Braised Pork Belly)

Hong shao rou (红烧肉), literally 'red-braised meat', is a Chinese home-style braise of skin-on pork belly cubes cooked until the surface turns a deep mahogany red and a thin, glossy sauce clings to every piece. The colour and shine come from rock sugar caramelized before the meat goes in, then a slow simmer in soy sauce, Shaoxing wine, ginger, and star anise. It is one of the standard dishes on the family table for National Day (国庆, 1–7 October) and Lunar New Year, usually served alongside plain rice and a plate of blanched greens to balance the richness. Most of the 60 to 90 minutes on the stove is unattended simmering, so the active work is really the first fifteen minutes: cutting, blanching, and getting the sugar to the right shade of amber. Done right, the fat under the skin turns soft and almost translucent rather than greasy, and the lean layers hold their shape without drying out.

115 min795 kcal4 serves

💪High protein

Lo Mein with noodles, oyster sauce and soy sauce — China recipe

🇨🇳ChinaMedium

Cereal and Pasta Dishes

Lo Mein

Soft egg noodles stir-fried with vegetables and protein in a glossy, savory sauce built on oyster sauce, light and dark soy sauce, Shaoxing wine, and sesame oil. Lo mein (捞面) translates from Cantonese as 'stirred noodles' — the name describes the cooking method, a scooping, tossing motion that coats every strand. Unlike chow mein, where the noodles are fried until crispy, lo mein noodles stay soft and slippery, coated in a thick, glossy sauce. The dark soy sauce is the detail that gives the dish its characteristic deep mahogany color; without it the dish looks pale. The sauce is premixed before the wok goes on — lo mein moves fast.

25 min520 kcal2 serves

⚡Quick

Mapo Tofu (Sichuan Tofu in Chili Bean Sauce) with silken tofu, doubanjiang and fermented black beans — China recipe

🇨🇳ChinaMedium

Vegetable and Mushroom Dishes

Mapo Tofu (Sichuan Tofu in Chili Bean Sauce)

Mapo tofu is the definitive Sichuan dish — cubes of silken tofu suspended in a glossy scarlet sauce of fermented chili bean paste and black beans, studded with crisp bits of pork and finished with freshly ground Sichuan peppercorn. The result is má là: the tingling numbness of the peppercorn against the burn of chili. Soft, fiery, and deeply savoury, it's built in minutes and eaten straight over steaming rice.

40 min380 kcal4 serves

🌶️Spicy💪High protein🌾Gluten-free

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