MM Mama is interested in getting recipes for Chinese food from me. My first response was, "there must be some on my blog." After researching posts with a "Yoyo nibbling" tag, I only found one ("Grandma's best stir-fried tomato, egg and cucumber"). This was a surprise--I sure cook Chinese food often but how come I haven't shared recipes with the world?
On a second thought this is because I don't need any recipe to cook Chinese food. For example, I don't have to remember how much salt is needed because I have a rough idea and I also taste the dish if I am not sure. Over-salted dishes? Surely it happened but mostly when we got a new type of salt or I was absent-minded. Besides I believe cooking is an art more than a science. I don't like to cook the same dish twice. I like to throw in new ingredients and see how things work.
But I understand this spirit of being adventurous doesn't help if one has never tasted or seen a dish before. My disastrous first-time-ever pudding is such an example. I do have heaps of recipe books but none is Chinese.
One incentive to write a recipe down is to share and now MM Mama gave me one. So stay tuned!
P.S. This also gave me an incentive to buy a kitchen scale. I didn't need one because all American recipes are volume-based.
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