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Does anyone know the best way or place (in Beijing) to learn how to cook traditional Chinese food? I want to bring some skills back home this summer.
Learn?
Here's what you do.
Get some food, anything will do. Cut it into small, chopstickable pieces and throw it into a scorching hot, oily wok for a minute or so. Plate and serve. Voila, Chinese food, bones and all.
siyingyuan:
that's exactly how I cook most of my Chinese food! wait, I don't chop them that small though, too much work.
iam not quit sure but i think a culinary school would be a good place but i could be mistaken
If you have any friends that cook, ask them. If not, ask if their parents/aunties/uncles/grandparents cook, and if they'd be willing to teach you or share recipes.
Failing that, get a book and teach yourself...
Ha! I do like derek said
but... I'll also be happy to have a tutor with me. Any volounteer?
in exchange - I can teach some european dishes
Depends if you have a need to cook 'traditional' chinese food, or not.
Many years ago, I wanted to learn to cook it - so I just bought a book (or 3 or 4), and followed the recipes... not 'traditional', but I can do some dishes that would seriously impress the locals... (and my other friends).
If you like to cook, then you can try by yourself with a book. I had to learn even more to cook for my child.
But frankly speaking, you can't really learn to cook Chinese food as a Chinese, not because you don't have the ability, but because if you're not Chinese, you won't stand to use as much oil, sauces and other weird ingredients when cooking. I have seen my in-laws when they cook; if I need one bottle of oil for 6 month, they need one bottle in a week; the same for salt.
Just eat it out if you like it but Its difficult to learn cooking Chinese food because you wouldn't stand cooking the chicken with all the nails, beak and con, half bottle of oil for one dish, lot of MSG and NAcl.
If you do it your way, then definitely its not a Chinese food.
You could do a language/cookery exchange. Get someone to teach you to cook while they practise their English.
And yeh, Louis stopped crying, thanks. Then started. Then stopped. Then started.......
There are a lot of cooking books on sale, but I am suspicious is there anybody would like to learn cooking from book, so boring...
The only practical way is to learn from your favorite food, and one by one.
Actually it depends on, even people use the same materials, the food taste different. There is one thing is called cooking skill. For example, how strong the fire would be, how many seasoning to put, how much water to put...