Taiwanese Recipes for Home Cooking

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.

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!

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.

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

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!

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!