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Archive for September, 2009

Chinese recipes are simple and delicious, making them an excellent choice for those nights when your family is in a hurry but still wants to have a hot, tasty meal. You just need a few simple tools to begin making Chinese recipes at home, including your favorite restaurant specialties.

All you need to cook basic Chinese recipes is a wok and a bamboo steamer. You may also want to invest in a small slotted wok spoon, which is almost like a spatula, but made specifically for use with a wok.

You may also want to have a very sharp knife, or a cleaver, on hand. Many basic Chinese recipes call for finely diced meats and vegetables, making a sharp knife a necessary tool for Chinese cooking.

Chinese recipes often call for the use of a bamboo steamer, which can be picked up inexpensively in a local shop or ordered online. There are several tricks that will help you make your Chinese food healthy and delicious using your steamer, which should be used over a wok or large pot of boiling water.

First, you will want to make sure that the water you are using is boiling, and producing steam before you add the food to the steamer. This will keep the food flavorful and fresh, rather than damp and falling apart.

You should also make sure that you have enough water in your wok to cook the dish without adding more water, so that the water is producing steam throughout the cooking time for the dish. Chinese cooking will become easier with practice, but until you are an expert, you will have to experiment a little.

You may also want to buy some basic Chinese ingredients, such as soy sauce, oyster sauce, sesame oil, cornflour and ginger. Having the basics on hand will allow you to quickly cook your favorite Chinese recipes without having to make a special trip to the supermarket to pick up supplies.

You can always review your favorite Chinese recipes before your next trip to the supermarket, and pick the items that you will need later for cooking them. Some items, such as ginger, will keep for quite some time as long as you keep it refrigerated, while other items should always be fresh.

After you have spent some time experimenting with Chinese cooking, you and your family will know which Chinese recipes you like best, so you can stock up on the ingredients you need with less guessing.

You can find many different Chinese recipes using an online search engine, which will also allow you to learn more about Chinese food and how to prepare them. Many of the most popular Chinese recipes are easy to find online, such as Kung Pao chicken, Chinese steamed fish, fried rice or sweet and sour pork.

Finding several Chinese recipes online will also allow you to prepare your tools and pantry for making your favorite Chinese food at home. Many different websites will offer you a comprehensive list of the things you need to get started.

o we need more information on Chinese tea?

The American public is confused with the half-trueinformation published in the lay media. One of the latest articles titled “Steeped in Confusion” on green tea published in the Wall Street Journal (Monday, January 26, 2004, in the Personal Health section) by Jennifer Saranow illustrates the confusion the readers of these articles are facing. For example, the anticancer effects of green tea observed in the laboratories are not always reproducible among the human green tea drinkers. Few editors, authors or scientists attempted to address this discrepancy.

Chinese Tea was introduced to the American public through the British tea traders and the Chinese restaurants, which are usually operated by Chinese-Americans whose ancestors came from the villages of the southern province of Guangdong, Taiwan and Hong Kong where most residents still shun green tea as a beverage. These descendants of farm laborers from Southern China only rink oolong tea, as commonly served in the Chinese restaurants.

As a result, the American Chinese tea drinkers have not been exposed to genuine green tea. All writings on green tea published in the US lay journals are based on second-hand information at the best. The TeaForHealth™ mission is to disseminate reliable evidence-based scientific information to the consumers who are interested in drinking green tea as a conventional food for health protection. It is a global green tea movement for knowledge dissemination initiated by a medical doctor with a cross-cultural background and more than 40 years of experience in medical practice in this country.

What kind of tea the Americans are drinking now?

The British brought black tea and the Chinese restaurants brought oolong tea to America. Some ofthe oolong teas are sold in special tea stores under the name of oolong green tea, or half-green tea. None in water to prepare tea drinks, primarily for “detoxification” and in religious or funeral ceremonies. Freshly plucked tea leaves were still used at least on special occasions among the intellect elite in the 1500’s AD, as depicted in the poem written on a classic Ming dynasty Chinese painting titled “Drinking Tea” now on display in the Palace Museum, Beijing.

As tea became a commodity for trading, it was necessary to preserve the quality of the fresh tea leaves by a brief heating and drying process for transportation and for storage. Tea leaves must undergo an initial heat treatment for quality preservation. Now, we know its purpose was to inactivate the polyphenol oxidase in tea leaves to stop the oxidation process in order to preserve the antioxidant tea catechins. The tea leaves which were not processed immediately would turn brown, just like a sliced apple undergoing discoloration when exposed to the air.

The brown tea leaves were treated with high temperature heating and pressed into cakes and bricks as salvage products, which were considered of low grade teas and were mostly sold to the minority Chinese living in the North or to foreign traders. Historically, “tea” always referred to green tea in the Middle Kingdom.