Chinese style Hoi Sin Chicken: Recipe

Posted by Charlie @ Discovering Mandarin Thursday, 6 August 2009 0 comments
Chinese style Hoi Sin ChickenServes 2Prep time: 15minsCooking Time: 15minsYou Will Need:300g chicken1 tablespoon toasted sesame oil1 tbsp soy sauce6 tbsp hoi sin sauceSalt and pepper4 medium garlic cloves, smashed150g green beans, cut into 1-inch lengths1 Bell PepperThinly sliced spring onionsToasted sesame seeds, for garnish, optional2 Nests Medium Egg NoodlesTo Cook:1. Cut up chicken into bite-sized chunks. Marinade the chicken in ½ tbsp...

Kung Po Chicken: Recipe

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Kung Po ChickenServes 4 hungry menKung Po Chicken is a favourite of mine at local Chinese Restaurants, So I thought I would give cooking it a go.This recipe tastes fantastic, and depending on your prefereneces you could make more sauce to make it more like the restaurant version than it's Chinese counterpart.Prep time: 30mins Cooking Time: 15mins You Will Need: 4 Chicken Breasts (500g)4 Tbsp Cornflour 2 spring onions 1 red pepper 1 Tomato...

Daily Chinese Proverb: Perfect

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This idiom “jinshan jinmei” means that something is perfect and immaculate尽善尽美jìnshàn jìnměi / jin4 shan4 jin4 mei3Photo Source:Fli...

New Phrases: Colour

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Colours in MandarinHaving had to experiment and explore Chinese grammar today, with the help of a couple of my friends on twitter, I learnt the way to incorperate colours into sentences. First of all though lets go through a couple of the basic colours. Each colour ends with 色 sè白色 (báisè) White黑色 (hēisè) Black红色 (hóngsè) Red黄色 (huángsè) Yellow蓝色 (lánsè) Blue绿色 (lǜsè) Green紫色 (zǐsè) Purple橙色 (chéngsè) OrangeColours are descriptive of an...

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