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Simple hot and sour soup recipe

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Last week, my sister made my coworkers some steamed dumplings for lunch. beside the dumplings, she made a simple soup to go with the relatively dry dumplings. Some of my coworker fell in love with the small bowel of soup and asked for recipe.  Here it is: (All amount is approximately added, it all depends on individual's taste.) Ingredients:  water, one shiitake mushroom (chop it as small pieces), salt, vinegar, soy Sause, white paper powder, one green onion(chopped to small pieces), one small plant of cilantro(chopped to small pieces), sesame oil. Instruction: 1. Put four cups of water in the pan and make it boiling  2. Put the chopped shiitake mushroom pieces in to the water and let boil again 3. Put a table spoon of salt and one teaspoon of white paper powder into the boiling water 4. Add a table spoon of vinegar and couple tea spoon of soy Sause into the water and turn off the heat 5. Put the chopped green onion and cilantro in the soup 6. Drip few drops of sesame oil in to the

How to make Steamed Chinese Buns

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 A friend of mine who once tried my Chinese steam buns and asked me to write a instruction of how to make it. I am trying here. I hope the instruction I put here would help. If you have any questions, please leave me a comment and I will try my best to answer it. The step to make the Chinese steam buns like this: Make a yeast dough ® make the stuffing ® make flat bread dough ® put the stuffing in the flat dough ® wait for water in steamer boiling ® put the buns into steamer ® close the steamer ® keep steamer on oven at high heating 30 minutes ® turn off the oven and open the steamer, buns are ready to serve! 1) To make yeast dough Using a big salver (container) which can keep at least 1.5 gallon of water. Put 2 table spoon of yeast in the container Put about 500ml (or 1/8 gallon) of warm water (40 degree centigrade or as your hand can tolerate) in to the container Add 3-5 cups of all purpose flour in to the container and using a fork to stir the flour in to the water until they look li

Chinese Chow Mein

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 Sunday is co-worker's birthday pot luck. The only thing I can do is  cooking  the real Chinese food. Since eating noodles is a  Chinese   tradition  for  birthday , so I made  Chinese  Chowmein. The long noodles I made means the person who has birthday is going to have a long life. Happy birthday! my friend! Now it is the instruction of how to make it. 1) Get some green beans from any grocery store. 2) Make sure you have the Chinese  soy sauce  in hands. I prefer this one that you can get it from a Chinese grocery store named Yishen at Chambers street. 3) Clean the green beans well and cut them like this to make long pieces to  mimic  noodles. 4) Put the prepared green beans into a  container  to be used. 5) Chopped some garlic, ginger and onions. 6) Heat a big pan and add some cooking oil (2 table spoon), and put the chopped onion, garlic and ginger in with some salt to cook them  until  they smell good. 7) Add the prepared green beans to the pan. 8) Stir fry they with the onion,

Stir Fried Green Beans

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 1) Get some fresh green  beans  from grocery store. 2) The  label  like this 3) Heat pan on high and use 2 table spoon cooking oil and stir fry the chopped onion, garlic and gingers with salt about 2-4 minutes. 4) Add cleaned and  cut  green beans to the cooking pan. 5) Add  soy sauce  and 5  specie  powder to the cooking pan. 6) Stir fry them all together for about 10 to 15 minutes. 7) Put in a plat and serve with steamed rice and Sweet Sour Stir Fried Potato Julienne.