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Q: What's the easiest "authentic" Chinese dish to make to impress family/friends?

I want to impress my family and friends with my new "Chinese cooking skills" next time I see them. The problem is I haven't actually learned how to make one single Chinese dish properly. I obviously know how to improvise but it always ends up tasting different to the way Chinese make it. Is there a dish that's both easy to make and tastes like real Chinese cooking?

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西红柿炒鸡蛋 Smile Tomatoes and eggs

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Yeah. Good in an omelet, but loose on a swimmy plate, looks like a dog's breakfast. Does not "enter the eye" as the Spanish would say, i.e. very unappetizing. "No entra al ojo."

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it's easy to make and very Chinese. Does't look that special, though, you are right.

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Flip some green vegetables in oil with garlic and some oyster sauce

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If it tastes different to the way Chinese cook it, that'll be because you haven't used enough oil and salt.  

 

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Buy a wok. Throw in some parboiled rice, soy sauce, grated carrots, scallions, "fungus", hot pot beef, whole garlic cloves, cilantro, and a ton of Sichuan red peppers. Peanut oil and plenty of MSG.

Not only will you impress the rellies with your culinary skills, you'll knock their socks off!

What time is dinner? I'll be there.

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Wok'ed things are easy and will taste like the real stuff. In doubt, throw laoganma sauce at the stuff and Bob's your uncle Laughing out loud

An especially easy one
- Mix some eggs in a bowl, with some young onions cut in small bits
- A bit of oil in the wok, fire, put the eggs, until the whole thing is solid. Stir a bit to avoid burning some part

- Cut green peppers in small slices
- A bit of oil in the wok, fire, but the green peppers, a *LITTLE BIT* of salt, stir
- After a few minutes, add the eggs in the wok and add a generous spoonfull of laoganma
Aaaannd... Cousin of my wife couldn't believe it was my dish, me the laowai Laughing out loud

Another more "elaborate" one.
- Cut half of a large onion into rings, cut a carrot into long threads, cut a zucchini into large cubes
- Prepare the eggs as mentioned above, minus the young onions
- A bit of oil in the wok, throw the vegetable in the wok, mix that, small fire, cover that so the steam does not escape.
- Every minute, remix that to avoid burned vegetables
- After like 10 minutes, the vegetables will be softer. Throw one or two spoon of hoisin sauce, and a bit of salt.

- Stir, put the eggs, large fire, for one or two minute
And you got a chinese looking dish that no chinese ate yet will love.

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tomato egg soup  sliced tomato put in boiling water, add one egg, stir it, add 5 spoon of MSG and serve it. 

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or don't add MSG but rather some dried seaweed, or just soy sauce.... anything but MSG :)

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Nessquick:

how can you cook without it ? it will be tasteless 

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Nessquick:

how can you cook without it ? it will be tasteless 

 

And, I forgot. add to any soup, a bit of oil. according to my wife, they can not swallow the soup if its not oily at least a bit :)

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Scandinavian:

I like plain old salt, or soy sauce, or a good home made stock (veggie or meat) 

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Nessquick:

I like it too, but the question was to "impress chinese audience" 

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Nessquick:

ohh, I am wrong here, sorry.

so sure, do not use msg, anything else is allowed, ginger, soy sauce , garlic. 3 basic ingrediences here 

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  Pot Noodle. You'll knock their socks off.

  Ok, honestly, i'm not a super cook myself but I have found that oyster sauce can make even a turd taste good, though I think you can do better than offering your family and friends a turd dipped in oyster sauce. But if you get a large eggplant, chop it into fat fingers (about the width of two fingers; just think 'school prom' and you've got it), each about four inches long (school prom again), soak them in water for ten minutes then squeeze the hell out of them. (Don't worry if they look awful and mangled, like the school prom, it only gets better from here on). Then get about 10 yuan of pork, chop it into mince, fry it up for a couple of minutes and then chuck it in a dish. Now chuck the eggplant in with a tablespoon of oil and a pinch of salt and fry it up. Squash the hell out of it with your wooden spoon and after about 8 minutes chuck the mince in and a reasonable glob of oyster sauce and hey presto, you have FOOD! You can even add a little soya sauce. I made the same dish for 'my' mates when they visited. Ended up chucking the lot in the bin and pissing off to Pizza Hut.

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A good and easy cold dish id bashed up cucumber with vinegar and finely chopped garlic.

The oyster sauce will make anything taste good though.

I use it in a lot of dishes.

 

You could just resort to hotpot. That is probably the easiest of them all.

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