Chinese Cooking Demystified Substack

Home
Recipe Box
Archive
Leaderboard
About
How to Love Zha Cai
The number one pickle in China doesn't seem to get a lot of international love.
 • 
Chinese Cooking Demystified
2
Fixing Spaghetti's Asian Soup Problem (with an old technique)
Drawing inspiration from Yangzhou's weimian to increase Spaghetti's substitutability
 • 
Chinese Cooking Demystified
2

August 2024

Are "Thai Salads" (Hakka) Chinese?
The yam-yan connections that drove me to the edge of my sanity.
 • 
Chinese Cooking Demystified
1
Gutter Oil: The History, The Mythology, and the Reality
Online you can find a bunch of videos of people in China scooping oil from the gutter. What are they doing?
 • 
Chinese Cooking Demystified
3
Fujian Fried Rice (福建炒饭)
Egg fried rice smothered in gravy that's totally not from Fujian.
 • 
Chinese Cooking Demystified

July 2024

"Inches of Ginger", and why recipes choose to be 'unscientific'.
...is it really so hard for recipe writers to just use grams?
 • 
Chinese Cooking Demystified
2
"Hainan" Coconut Chicken Hotpot
How to make the "tropical" Chinese sensation that's... not actually from Hainan.
 • 
Chinese Cooking Demystified

June 2024

Crispy Mint Ribs (薄荷排骨)
A traditional drinking food from Yunnan that employs some uncommon technique.
 • 
Chinese Cooking Demystified
Cantonese Rice Plates (碟头饭)
Three - reasonably easy - options for 'big plates of rice with stuff on them', straight from lunch counters in Guangdong.
 • 
Chinese Cooking Demystified
1
Basil* Noodles, from Henan (荆芥拌面)
Tomato, Garlic, and Basil in China's Noodle Heartland
 • 
Chinese Cooking Demystified
1
'Western' Food in Asia: ...Curry?
A dish that seems to belong to everywhere and nowhere.
 • 
Chinese Cooking Demystified
2

May 2024

Chinese Bagels (贝果)
In 2024? One of the trendiest Chinese snacks is... the Bagel. And it's not exactly the same as what you'd find in New York.
 • 
Chinese Cooking Demystified
6
© 2024 Chinese Cooking Demystified
Privacy ∙ Terms ∙ Collection notice
Start WritingGet the app
Substack is the home for great culture