Chinese Recipes

We love homemade dumplings! You can make these with store bought dumpling wrappers, or you can also make your own! I'll tell you homemade dumpling wrappers are SO delicious. Here's how to make it!

Chinese Steamed Eggplant with Garlic Soy Sauce is a tasty veggie side dish that we like to make at home! It is made by steaming Chinese eggplants until it is soft and tender, then drizzling it with a flavorful sauce.

Stir Fry Lamb with Asparagus is an easy and delicious dish you can make it any night! Marinated sliced lamb stir fried with asparagus, ginger, garlic and green onions!

This Asian Pan Fried Pork Belly is so easy to make and so delicious! You can dress it up with your favorite sauce too! Here's how to make it.

If you’re looking for a unique side dish to your entrée – look no further! This easy simple Bok Choy Mushrooms Stir Fry is easy to make and makes a yummy and nutritious veggie side dish!

Chinese Chicken with Pickled Mustard Greens (aka Suan Cai) 酸菜雞丁 is often cooked at my house - it is one of my mom's favorites to cook, which is great, because it is one of my favorites to eat!

Red braised whole fish aka Hong Shao Yu, is a very common dish in Chinese and Taiwanese cuisine. It is traditionally made by cooking a whole fish with rice wine, ginger, scallions, soy sauce, and the star ingredient of chili bean paste.

This is a simple stir fry vegetable we make very often at my house - A Choy Stir Fry with Garlic. If you've never had this veggie - I recommend it!

Stir Fry Cauliflower is an easy veggie side dish we like to make. Cauliflower is a healthy veggie so it is both a yummy and tasty dish!

Daikon Radish Pork Soup is a classic Chinese soup made with cubed daikon radish, pork bone broth, ginger, and garlic. It's soothing, warming, and healthy too which explains why we make it so often.

Chinese Garlic Chives Pancakes or Jiu Cai Bing (韭菜餅) is a traditional Chinese dish that can be served as a snack, appetizer, or light meal. It's actually not super hard to make either! I'll show you step by step in this post.

We almost always have a soup to go with our dinner - and this Seaweed Egg Drop Soup is an easy one that is on the rotation!

Sichuan Peppercorn Chicken Thighs is a dish we make quite often, as it is not only tasty but also super easy to make! Add ingredients to chicken thighs, let it soak it in, pan fry and serve!

Napa Cabbage Glass Noodles is a Chinese dish with napa cabbage cooked with glass noodles, shiitake mushrooms, dried shrimp, garlic in a shiitake mushroom soy sauce!

Wood Ear Mushroom Stir Fry with Shrimp and Eggs 黑木耳虾仁炒蛋 is an easy way to cook up some wood ear mushrooms! In a stir fry the wood ear mushroom is crunchy and the texture goes great with stir fried shrimp and eggs!

Taiwanese Ginger Fish Soup is a light healthy and tasty soup that's also easy to make! Chunks of white fish simmered with julienned ginger and chopped green onions - so warming to the tummy!

Red Braised Chicken (or aka Red Cooked Chicken) is such a delicious chicken dish - it's made by browning chicken and then simmering with soy sauce, ginger, green onions, and more!

Shredded Meat Celery and Dried Tofu Stir Fry - The name is a mouthful but it's a popular dish in Chinese cuisine! Marinated shredded beef or pork, stir fried with dry pressed tofu (aka dougan) along with julienned celery.

Have you ever had Zha jiang mian, aka Chinese fried sauce noodles? This noodle dish is so easy to make and so delicious too! Minced pork in savory and sweet bean sauce, ginger, green onions and julienned cucumber!

Sweet Bok Choy Stir Fry with Beef is easy and delicious! This dish features marinated sliced beef stir fried with ginger and tender sweet bok choy at high heat.

I love stir fry dinners because it's not only easy but it's also delicious too! This Lamb Stir Fry is one of these stir fries! Marinated sliced lamb stir fried with ginger, scallions and green peppers! What's not to love?

Tofu is a very popular ingredient in many Asian countries - it's not a surprise, there's so many ways you can prepare it! That's why I put together this round up of delicious Asian tofu recipes to try at home - including Chinese mapo tofu, Thai curry tofu, Korean tofu soup, Japanese teriyaki tofu, and …

Stir fry winter melon (炒冬瓜) is a an easy veggie side dish - we like to cook this veggie with dried shrimp and soy sauce. This is how we make it at home.

This Garlic Soy Sauce Chicken is so delicious - what is it? It's garlic soy sauce marinated chicken pan fried, and the drizzled with the garlic soy glaze!

This dish is one of my mom's favorites - Stir Fry Bean Sprouts and Garlic Chives. I do see why, it's tasty and I love the crunchiness of the bean sprouts and how it pairs well with the Chinese garlic chives!

Pork is a very popular meat in Chinese cuisine. In fact, it's actually the most popular meat consumed! That's probably why there are so many delicious Chinese Pork recipes. Here are 10+ tasty ones to try.

Okra is such an interesting vegetable - some love it and some hate it. We are a fan! We usually cook this veggie with this recipe - by a simple Chinese Stir Fry Okra with garlic and dried chili peppers.

If you love bold, savory flavors in Chinese cooking, you’ve got to try 紅燒魚片, or red-braised fish fillet! Traditionally, 紅燒魚 (red-braised fish) is made with a whole fish and often served during special occasions or family dinners. But let’s be honest—sometimes it’s just easier (and less messy) to use fish fillets. This version is quick, …

This Shrimp Bok Choy Stir Fry is a simple veggie and seafood stir fry we make when we want a lighter dish. It's tasty and a refreshing dish when you aren't looking for something very heavy!

Have you ever had Luffa before? It's a gourd, also known as silk melon or si gua in Mandarin. Delicious and nutritious - we love to stir fry this veggie with dried shrimp!

Stir frying is a Chinese cooking technique where you take ingredients, and fry them with a small amount of hot oil while you stir, letting the ingredients to evenly cook. If you've never done it before, here's how to stir fry!

This Chicken Zucchini Mushrooms Stir Fry is a simple stir fry that we like to make! We marinade the chicken and then stir fry with sliced mushrooms and zucchini, and then either serve with white rice or noodles!

Tender water spinach stir fried with smashed garlic and fermented tofu - I have many favorite veggies, but this is my favorite veggie dish of all times! In this post, I'm going to show you how we usually cook it - easy and delicious, and nutritious too!

There's a reason why chicken is so popular - you can make it so many ways. There are lots of delicious Chinese chicken recipes for example! Here's 20+ delicious Chinese chicken recipes to try!

Sesame Oil Kidney Noodle Soup is a traditional dish in Taiwan, especially for people trying to 'heal' and be healthier. If you're not used to organ meat, you might not ever try this dish, but if you've ever had it before you know how delicious this noodle soup can be!

This Stir Fry Pork with Snow Peas and Mushrooms is easy to make and makes a tasty entrée. Marinated sliced pork, stir fried with a mix of snow peas and button mushrooms - what's not to like!

This Bok Choy Shiitake Mushrooms Stir Fry is an easy veggie side dish that is also delicious! The flavor the shiitake mushrooms add to the bok choy is perfect!

This Air Fryer Chinese Chicken Wings dish is tasty and easy to make! The chicken wings are marinated with a mix of sauces and air fried for less than 20 minutes.

We love making red braised pork belly - and sometimes we like to make modifications to it! For example, we have a family friend that has fresh bamboos in their yard, and so every year when it's bamboo shoots season - we make red braised pork belly with bamboo shoots 竹筍紅燒肉!

The amazing thing about this dish is it is insanely easy and it's also super delicious! Salmon With Green Onions, Garlic, and Soy Sauce is a great way to get some seafood in your diet, and it's a healthy meal too!