Chinese Recipes
Collected from China and Taiwan
Authentic Chinese recipes from China and Taiwan; all tested in my kitchen. With these easy-to-follow instructions you can cook any of these delicious dishes yourself at home.
Starters/Snacks Recipes
Pickled Cucumber Salad
A lightly pickled cucumber salad commonly served in Taiwan as a zesty appetiser. This is a simple dish but it needs to be prepared half a day in advance.
Spring Onion Flatbread
This delicious spring onion flatbread is sold all over China. Make it at home with these easy-to-follow instructions. Eat as a snack or as part of a meal. Also known as scallion pancake.
Tea Eggs
Flavoured with tea and spices, this cheap, filling snack food is found all over China. In spite of the name, tea is not the dominant flavour.
Fried Radish Cake
Radish cake is one of the great staples of breakfast stores and dim sum restaurants.
Fried Radish Cake with Pork and Mushrooms
The homestyle, meaty version of that great staple of Chinese breakfast shops and dim sum restaurants, fried radish cake.
Cantonese White Cut Chicken
This simple, pure-flavoured chicken dish, served cold, makes a great starter to a meal.
Zongzi (Rice Dumplings in Bamboo Leaves)
Zongzi is a traditional dish that is eaten all year round, but especially during the Dragon Boat Festival. This is the delicious, chock-full of ingredients Taiwan savoury version.
Rice Recipes
Plain White Rice
Cook Chinese-style steamed rice easily on your stovetop without the need for a dedicated rice cooker. Fluffy white rice is the perfect accompaniment for a huge range of tasty meat, and vegetable dishes.
Egg Fried Rice
This Chinese egg fried rice recipe is simple to make at home with these easy-to-follow instructions. This delicious Taiwan-style dish is a wholesome meal in one dish.
Rice Porridge with Side Dishes
Rice congee is often the Chinese baby’s first solid food. It is also fodder for the convalescing when bland food is called for. But it is best enjoyed as a foil for savoury side dishes, most commonly for breakfast.
Rice Flavoured with Lard and Soy Sauce
Only plain white rice is simpler than this tasty pauper’s dish.
Noodle Recipes
Classic Taiwan Red braised
Beef Noodle Soup
Beef noodle soup is virtually Taiwan’s national dish. This full-flavoured ‘red braised’ soup with succulent beef and silky noodles isn’t hard to master at home.
Classic Taiwan Clear Broth
Beef Noodle Soup
Beef noodle soup is virtually Taiwan’s national dish. This light but tasty version with succulent beef and silky noodles isn’t hard to master at home.
Ants Climbing a Tree
A quick and simple spicy stir-fried mung bean noodle dish that originated in Sichuan. Make it at home with these easy-to-follow instructions.
Taiwan Cold Noodles
with Chicken
This Taiwan salad, cold noodles with chicken in a tangy sesame and black vinegar dressing is delicious, and quick and easy to make following this recipe.
Soup Recipes
Hot and Sour Soup
Authentic recipe for the delicious and extremely hearty Taiwan version of hot and sour soup, a dish that can be found in Chinese restaurants worldwide.
Bamboo and Pork Soup
This simple Chinese three-ingredient soup is a traditional homestyle favourite in Taiwan. All you need is bamboo shoots, pork chops and chicken stock.
Ginseng Chicken Soup
Ginseng has been treasured as a tonic in China for thousands of years. This homestyle dish is a tasty example of revitalising Chinese medicinal cooking.
Pineapple and Bamboo Chicken Soup
This simple, tangy Chinese soup is a traditional homestyle favourite in Taiwan. It is easy to make following this authentic recipe.
Meat & Seafood Recipes
Roast Pork Belly
Crisp, succulent Chinese pork belly, well-seasoned and roasted in the oven (or barbecued), is a great dish that will set your taste buds racing. Serve as an appetiser or with rice as part of a meal.
Three Cup Chicken
A deliciously pungent classic Taiwan dish. The three cups refer to one each of sesame oil, rice wine, and soy sauce. Make it at home quickly with this easy-to-follow recipe.
Dongpo Pork
Dongpo pork is Hangzhou’s trademark dish, a sumptuous feast of meat; wonderfully rich tasting. To eat it is to begin to understand the role of fat in making meat taste great.
Steamed Whole Fish
Chinese whole steamed fish, deliciously clean-tasting, is quick and easy to make at home following this simple recipe that uses just a few ingredients.
Vegetable Recipes
Stir-fried Water Spinach
Water spinach is one of the great vegetable staples of Taiwan and southern China. When cooked right, this quick-growing leafy green is a great combo of crunchy stems and tender leaves.
Fried Tofu with Pork Belly and Mushrooms
Chinese chafing dishes, bubbling away on your table are always fun to eat. This one, with tofu, pork and mushrooms, is easy to make following this recipe.
Deep Fried Tofu
This Chinese deep fried tofu dish goes well with a dipping sauce. Great as a snack or as part of a meal. It is easy to make following this recipe.
Sauces & Condiments Recipes
Soy Dipping Sauce
A classic Chinese soy dipping sauce you can serve with dumplings, fried and steamed bread, or use it in cooking. It is easy to make following this recipe.
Soy and Oil Hot Sauce
Soy and oil hot sauce is the spicy Chinese answer to vinaigrette. For noodles and dumplings rather than salads, it is easy to make following this recipe.
Salt and Pepper Dip
Chinese salt and pepper dip is great on the table for poultry, fried food and much more. So simple it hardly warrants the term ‘recipe.’
Sweets and Drinks Recipes
Sweet Mung Bean Dessert Soup
Traditional Chinese sweet mung bean dessert soup is a healthy snack or dessert that is very easy to make. Serve cold in summer or hot in winter.
Kumquat Fruit Tea Recipe
Kumquat fruit tea is a tangy sweet and sour drink that served hot, may help to relieve your sore throat or cough. Served cold, it is the refreshing Chinese answer to American lemonade.