I have a Chinese background and I like my Chinese food. I am planning to experiemnt with Chinese cooking for a while and simplify some of the menus with and share some that i grew up with.
When you start cooking Chinese food it may seem daunting to look at the long list of ingredients but when it comes to cooking it could be quite simple. All the bits are really quite basic and most people have some of these at home, but if you don't, here is a list of ingredients that are handy to have.
Cupboard
- sugar
- corn flour (for thickening sauces)
- slight soy sauce
- dark soy sauce
- Chinese cooking wine (called Shaoxing OR Shaohsing)
- stock ( if not fresh stock cube will do, we usually cook meat with bones and save the liquid as stock)
- pepper
- salt
- sesame oil ( I recommend the Japanese brand Kadoya with yellow cap that smells amazing and is very good quality)
- ginger ( usually used chopped up or grated)
- spring onion
- garlic ( usually used chopped up or minced)
- Coriander is quite a useful herb as well and it is handy to have it as a plant to get asome levaes now and again
