Dish-Type Recipe Index
Sauces, condiments, and pantry bases
These recipes are grouped as sauces, condiments, and pantry bases because their ingredients, cooking method, or restaurant-menu role fit this dish family.
About sauces, condiments, and pantry bases
Brown sauce, white sauce, chile oil, duck sauce, hot mustard, dipping sauces, and aromatic oils.
Recipes in this section: 51.
Sauces, condiments, and pantry bases
Beef with Oyster Sauce recipe with ingredients, method, substitutions, and Chinese menu-literacy notes.
Black Bean Sauce Stir-Fry recipe with ingredients, method, substitutions, and Chinese menu-literacy notes.
A Buddha's delight recipe with tofu, mushrooms, vegetables, glass noodles, vegetarian sauce, and Buddhist vegetarian menu-literacy notes.
A Cantonese steamed fish recipe with ginger, scallion, soy sauce, and hot oil.
Cantonese White Sauce recipe with ingredients, method, substitutions, and Chinese menu-literacy notes.
An oven char siu recipe with hoisin, soy sauce, honey, five-spice, and Cantonese roast-meat notes.
Chile Oil for Wontons and Noodles
Chile Oil for Wontons and Noodles recipe with ingredients, method, substitutions, and Chinese menu-literacy notes.
An Indo-Chinese chili paneer recipe with paneer, peppers, onions, soy sauce, vinegar, chile sauce, and dry/gravy options.
Chinese Hot Mustard recipe with ingredients, method, substitutions, and Chinese menu-literacy notes.
Chinese Restaurant Brown Sauce
Chinese Restaurant Brown Sauce recipe with ingredients, method, substitutions, and Chinese menu-literacy notes.
Chinese Restaurant Duck Sauce recipe with ingredients, method, substitutions, and Chinese menu-literacy notes.
Choy Sum with Oyster Sauce recipe with ingredients, method, substitutions, and Chinese menu-literacy notes.
A Cantonese clay pot rice recipe with rice, Chinese sausage, chicken or mushrooms, soy sauce, and a crisp bottom.
A Chinese cold cucumber salad recipe with garlic, vinegar, soy sauce, sesame oil, and chile oil, plus dietary substitutions.
A dan dan noodles recipe with sesame paste, chile oil, Sichuan peppercorn, preserved vegetable, pork, and menu-literacy notes.
A Dongpo pork recipe with pork belly, Shaoxing wine, soy sauce, sugar, ginger, scallion, and Zhejiang menu-literacy notes.
Dumpling Dipping Sauce recipe with ingredients, method, substitutions, and Chinese menu-literacy notes.
Egg Foo Young Gravy recipe with ingredients, method, substitutions, and Chinese menu-literacy notes.
An egg fried rice recipe focused on rice texture, egg, scallion, soy sauce, and menu-literacy notes.
A Sichuan fish-fragrant eggplant recipe with garlic, ginger, pickled chile, vinegar, sugar, and soy sauce.
Frog with Foo Chow Sauce recipe with ingredients, method, substitutions, and Chinese menu-literacy notes.
A Fujian-style peanut noodles recipe with wheat noodles, peanut sauce, soy sauce, vinegar, garlic, and menu-literacy notes.
Gai Lan with Oyster Sauce recipe with ingredients, method, substitutions, and Chinese menu-literacy notes.
Garlic Sauce Stir-Fry recipe with ingredients, method, substitutions, and Chinese menu-literacy notes.
A General Tso's chicken recipe with fried chicken, sweet-spicy sauce, and American Chinese menu-literacy notes.
Ginger Scallion Sauce recipe with ingredients, method, substitutions, and Chinese menu-literacy notes.
An Indo-Chinese gobi Manchurian recipe with cauliflower, soy-garlic-chile sauce, dry or gravy format, and menu-literacy notes.
A Hakka stuffed tofu recipe with tofu, pork or fish filling, pan-frying, sauce, and menu-literacy notes.
Hong Kong Baked Pork Chop Rice
A Hong Kong baked pork chop rice recipe with fried rice, pork chop, tomato sauce, cheese, and cha chaan teng menu-literacy notes.
A practical guide to Chinese hot pot dipping sauces with sesame paste, shacha, soy sauce, vinegar, garlic, scallion, chile oil, and dietary notes.
An Indo-Chinese Hakka noodles recipe with stir-fried noodles, vegetables, soy sauce, vinegar, chile, and menu-literacy notes.
A kung pao chicken recipe with chiles, peanuts, Sichuan peppercorn, vinegar, sugar, soy sauce, and menu-literacy notes.
A practical liangpi recipe using store-bought wheat starch or rice noodles with chile oil, vinegar, cucumber, and gluten or tofu.
A Sichuan mouthwatering chicken recipe with poached chicken, chile oil, black vinegar, soy sauce, sesame, and Sichuan peppercorn.
A red-braised pork recipe with pork belly, soy sauce, sugar, Shaoxing wine, ginger, and menu-literacy notes.
A scallion oil noodles recipe with fragrant scallion oil, soy sauce, and Jiangnan menu-literacy notes.
Shanghai Stir-Fried Rice Cakes
A Shanghai stir-fried rice cakes recipe with napa cabbage, pork or mushrooms, soy sauce, and chewy niangao.
Shredded Pork in Mandarin Sauce
Shredded Pork in Mandarin Sauce recipe with ingredients, method, substitutions, and Chinese menu-literacy notes.
A simplified shrimp cheung fun recipe with rice flour batter, shrimp, soy sauce, and Cantonese dim sum notes.
Shrimp with Lobster Sauce recipe with ingredients, method, substitutions, and Chinese menu-literacy notes.
Soy Sauce Chicken recipe with ingredients, method, substitutions, and Chinese menu-literacy notes.
Spare Rib Tips with Black Bean Sauce
Spare Rib Tips with Black Bean Sauce recipe with ingredients, method, substitutions, and Chinese menu-literacy notes.
A Chinese steamed egg custard recipe with eggs, water or stock, soy sauce, sesame oil, and menu-literacy notes.
Steamed Spareribs with Black Bean Sauce
A Cantonese dim sum steamed spareribs recipe with fermented black beans, garlic, ginger, and menu-literacy notes.
A Taiwanese beef noodle soup recipe with beef shank or chuck, soy sauce, aromatics, tomatoes, pickled greens, and wheat noodles.
A Taiwanese lu rou fan recipe with braised pork, soy sauce, five-spice, shallots, rice, and menu-literacy notes.
A Taiwanese oyster omelet recipe with eggs, oysters, sweet potato starch, greens, and sweet-savory sauce.
A Taiwanese three-cup chicken recipe with sesame oil, soy sauce, rice wine, ginger, garlic, basil, and menu-literacy notes.
A Sichuan twice-cooked pork recipe with pork belly, leeks, doubanjiang, sweet bean sauce, and menu-literacy notes.
A Cantonese white-cut chicken recipe with ginger-scallion sauce and menu-literacy notes.
A northern Chinese zhajiangmian recipe with wheat noodles, fermented bean sauce, pork or mushrooms, cucumber, and menu-literacy notes.