Dish-Type Recipe Index

Cold dishes and salads

These recipes are grouped as cold dishes and salads because their ingredients, cooking method, or restaurant-menu role fit this dish family.

About cold dishes and salads

Cold appetizers, jellyfish, seaweed salad, cold noodles, bang bang chicken, and chilled dressed dishes.

Recipes in this section: 11.

Cold dishes and salads

Aromatic Cold Appetizer Plate

Cantonese / Chinese Cold Dishes · Cold dish · Serves 3–4 · 45 minutes plus chilling

Aromatic Cold Appetizer Plate recipe with ingredients, method, substitutions, and Chinese menu-literacy notes.

Bang Bang Chicken

Sichuan · Sichuan · Serves 2–3 · 35 minutes

Bang Bang Chicken recipe with ingredients, method, substitutions, and Chinese menu-literacy notes.

Chinese Chicken Salad

American Chinese / Chinese American · Salad · Serves 3–4 · 30 minutes

Chinese Chicken Salad recipe with ingredients, method, substitutions, and Chinese menu-literacy notes.

Cold Cucumber Salad

Cold Dish · Cold dish · Serves 2–4 · 15 minutes

A Chinese cold cucumber salad recipe with garlic, vinegar, soy sauce, sesame oil, and chile oil, plus dietary substitutions.

Cold Jellyfish Salad

Cantonese / Banquet Cold Dish · Cold dish · Serves 3–4 · 20 minutes after soaking

Cold Jellyfish Salad recipe with ingredients, method, substitutions, and Chinese menu-literacy notes.

Cold Wood Ear Mushroom Salad

Cold Dishes · Cold dish · Serves 2–3 · 20 minutes

Cold Wood Ear Mushroom Salad recipe with ingredients, method, substitutions, and Chinese menu-literacy notes.

Drunken Chicken

Jiangnan · Jiangnan · Serves 3–4 · 1 hour plus chilling

Drunken Chicken recipe with ingredients, method, substitutions, and Chinese menu-literacy notes.

Liangpi Cold Skin Noodles

Shaanxi · Shaanxi · Serves 2 · 25 minutes with prepared noodles

A practical liangpi recipe using store-bought wheat starch or rice noodles with chile oil, vinegar, cucumber, and gluten or tofu.

Mango Salad

Southeast Asian Chinese / Malaysian Chinese · Salad · Serves 2–3 · 20 minutes

Mango Salad recipe with ingredients, method, substitutions, and Chinese menu-literacy notes.

Seaweed Salad

Cold Dishes · Cold dish · Serves 2–3 · 15 minutes after soaking

Seaweed Salad recipe with ingredients, method, substitutions, and Chinese menu-literacy notes.

Sesame Cold Noodles

Cold Dishes / American Chinese · Cold noodles · Serves 3–4 · 25 minutes

Sesame Cold Noodles recipe with ingredients, method, substitutions, and Chinese menu-literacy notes.