/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.16605604]

Is a wok mandatory for a stir fry? Trying to impress my chinese gf with some authentic food but I don't have a wok.

[Anonymous No.16605612]

>>16605604
why do you have a gf?

[Anonymous No.16605622]

>>16605604
why don't you impress her with something from your ethnic background?

you really think a chinese girl is gonna be impressed by a weeb with a wok?

[Anonymous No.16605628]

>>16605622
i'm white i don't have an ethnic background. idk what else I would make

[Anonymous No.16605631]

>>16605628
>im white no ethnic backround no dishes
wtf? do americhuds really? where does your last name come from?

[Anonymous No.16605639]

>>16605631
i think Germany. im not making sausage

[Anonymous No.16605641]

>>16605628
>i'm white i don't have an ethnic background

todays kids man wtf is going on

[Anonymous No.16605642]

>>16605604
as someone dating a chinese woman (who immigrated here as an adult), they will not be impressed at all by stir-fry. stir-fries are what you make when your mom or dad is tired and you have scraps of veggies and junk left in the fridge.

learn and cook an actual chinese dish that has a name besides "chao fan" or "chao mian" and you will impress her.

also you don't need a wok for most of these dishes. you will miss out on some potential flavor depending on the dish, but it is minor relative to hitting important notes.

tell me where your gf is from and i can recommend some easy dishes for you to make.

ALSO: this only applies if she's actually Chinese and wasn't someone who was born here. if she was born here all bets are off. my experience with american born chinese (ABC) or any foreign born chinese is they don't know chinese cooking well enough to give a shit. they only know the limited set of dishes their parents were able to make.

[Anonymous No.16605651]

>>16605604
>Is a wok mandatory for a stir fry?
It's actively bad a lot of the time, because on most home stoves you can get much higher heat with a flat bottomed stainless or (situationally) cast iron saute pan. The most fundamental thing about wok cooking is the extremely high heat.
I can get wok hei with my saute pans. But not with my wok.

I use the wok mostly for cooking fried noodle / rice dishes where the large capacity and tossing function is key. Or for deep frying, or steaming/frying whole fish, few other things.

But not for stir frying. Its actually shit for stir frying meat especially.

[Anonymous No.16605655]

>>16605642
i think she said Guangzhou at some point but idk if I'm remembering that right. she came to US for university

[Anonymous No.16605658]

>>16605631
>>16605641

are you retards american? most americans are euromutts and to claim any specific ethnic lineage would be absurd. the best people can do is regional cuisines from where they grew up in america. i agree OP should just cook something tasty and not some garbage crap from China. my experience is most chinese suck ass at cooking, because most that immigrate here are spoiled rich brats.

[Anonymous No.16605659]

>>16605604
Just make her some shrimp. Bitches love shrimp.

[Anonymous No.16605664]

>>16605628
Make chicken abodo, fettuccine alfredo, a calzone, quiche or really anything. Hell! You say your last name is German, you can cook a damm good wiener schnitzel with fries and hot sauce!

[Anonymous No.16605669]

>>16605604
>Trying to impress my chinese gf with some authentic food

HAHAHAHAHA. Gweilo pls

[Anonymous No.16605675]

>>16605658
cool it dude.

it's way more interesting to say
>my grandma took this recipe with her from serbia

[Anonymous No.16605678]

>>16605604
I suggest you make Hong Shao Rou
there are a couple good recipes on woks of life

it's very low-skill. You can do almost all of the work in advance. And it's absolutely delicious. It was Chairman Mao's favorite dish. She will be impressed. You will impress an asian girl by giving her a lot of tasty meat.

Just serve it with jasmine rice and some greens, chinese greens if you're feeling adventurous.

[Anonymous No.16605697]

the other most obvious chinese dish which is impressive, imo, is doing a whole fish, steamed or fried, if you have access to a fish market where you can buy good fresh whole fish

now, it's very possible to fuck that up by under/overcooking, but if you don't, it's extremely fun to eat, and a big cut above what people normally eat, and a big comfort food for chinese people that basically means 'baller'.

for a date you can just serve it in a big central dish with small bowls of rice and beers and eat it with your hands it can be a verrry fun meal.

[Anonymous No.16605698]

>>16605655
you need to double check, guangzhou is the capital city in guangdong, and if she's from guangdong and not guangzhou specifically, there are a lot of different regional cuisines from the surrounding localities that also have lots of immigrants here (for example, taishan has tons of immigrants that come here every year, and it's got a different cuisine than guangzhou).

anyway, if she is from anywhere in the southeast of china, she most likely won't be able to handle spice. the southerners make white americans look like professional chili handlers since most can hold down sriracha or tabasco. so don't do spicy.

here are some dishes from the region that should be easy enough to make assuming you have some cooking experience with western techniques:

much easier, egg dish:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7JvXUj_usI

braised pork belly (a bit sweet)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zV11JpSSA_Q

cha shao:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lj5GJP_i55o


in general chinese cooking demystified's videos are a good mix of authentic recipes with a southern-bend and a bit of history. impress her with your knowledge of 8888 years of history by watching their videos. that being said just ask her what she likes and just make that lol.

[Anonymous No.16605699]

>>16605628
>i'm white i don't have an ethnic background.
Absolutely fucking disgusting.

On a separate note, no you don't need a wok. The point of a wok is the high heat retention and surface area to cook/fry food quickly.

If you're making fried rice, some sort of stir fry, fried noodles, etc. you just need to use a pan that's steel or cast iron.

Additionally you'll want to be careful of adding too many ingredients at once so you don't end up cooling down the pan or having too much water and the food basically just boils.

There's also plenty of chinese/asian dishes that you can make with braising, grilling, broiling, and boiling. Idk dude just make something you feel confident in your abilities about.

Just make some american style chinese food. Beef and broccoli is the shit if you use quality ingredients and it's super easy. Then you can honor both your cultures, you fuckin weirdo.

[Anonymous No.16605701]

>>16605675
and almost no americans have grandmothers from serbia. most americans have great-great grandparents from ireland or italy or germany, and not much else. anything specific would have been lost a long time ago.

[Anonymous No.16605707]

>>16605678
hong shao rou is a good option too. it's braised so it's a bit hard to fuck up.

[Anonymous No.16605708]

>>16605698
don't fucking gaslight him dude
those are all TERRIBLE meal suggestions for a beginner on a date.

and it's complete bullshit that people in guangzhao can't handle spice. I stayed there for a month with my friends family who were locals and they all ate spicy stuff and lots of local places served spicy stuff. Yes it's true cantonese cuisine is often mild af but the people aren't bitches.

[Anonymous No.16605717]

>>16605698
char siu bao especially

have you ever made that? There are several places to fuck up spectacularly. It's hard. And it's not dinner.

roasting a fatty cut of pork is a bit pitfall too. And scrambled eggs? For dinner? What? Not to mention that too really relies on execution. You can't just cook good eggs of almost any kind because you can follow a recipe

[Anonymous No.16605720]

>>16605659
This, seriously. Shrimp is dead easy and always impressive. You don't have to do any fancy sauce just something simple and some pasta or rice and simple veg.

[Anonymous No.16605728]

>>16605701
lmao what are you talking about? people immigrate directly from Serbia to the US, starting a lot in the 1950s. I know a lot, since there's a serbian area in my city.

In fact people from all countries immigrate directly to the US, we're a country whose population is by huge percentage immigrants. What the fuck are you trying to imply anyway?

[Anonymous No.16605730]

>>16605708

i have no idea where i am gaslighting anyone, maybe you can elaborate

in addition, i have no idea what to tell you besides everyone i met who was from guangdong while i was in china refused to eat anything spicier than cholula hot sauce. if i went to a sichuanese restaurant or hunanese restaurant they'd order the most mild thing, usually some deep fried pork or beef ribs or maybe some soups. and hot pot also always required a divider for "spicy broth" and "not spicy broth", and they whined if someone's chopsticks let a droplet of spicy into the unspicy broth.

maybe you met some cooler people, but 0/10 always asking if they can handle spicy before going out.

[Anonymous No.16605731]

>>16605628
Americans aren't white

[Anonymous No.16605734]

>>16605699
>Beef and broccoli is the shit if you use quality ingredients and it's super easy
... is it though
i feel like it's pretty meh unless your technique is very good

i would not be impressed by a beginners version of any 'basic stir-fry'
like i'd be happy to eat it but I wouldn't be impressed

[Anonymous No.16605739]

>>16605730
>hot pot also always required a divider for "spicy broth" and "not spicy broth"
lol this was my experience too but tbf the 'spicy broth' was devestating and all the men ate that one

and a lot of pig brain for some reaosn

[Anonymous No.16605742]

>>16605717
you think this guy is going to be able to do a typical chinese dinner? if he does, he needs like 2-4 dishes and a side of rice. i am giving options, if he wants to make it for dinner or not that's up to him.

also when i was in china, people ate cha shao baozi for dinner in shanghai, so i have no clue what you're talking about. obviously not the main course.

but i also stipulated that he needs cooking skills to do most of them.

[Anonymous No.16605754]

>>16605739
most devastating spicy broth i had was in chengdu, for the most part everything else was workable as an american that likes spice. i prefer chongqing style over chengdu style anyway.

> pig brain

fuck zhu nao. fuckers think its amazing when its got a weird texture and a mild taste. definitely prefer intestine over it

[Anonymous No.16605755]

>>16605701
you are objectively wrong and just spreading misinformation

[Anonymous No.16605778]

>>16605754
>weird texture
this is why they like it lol
this is why they like jellyfish
and sea cucumber
and cartilidge

the major food gulf i haven't and don't desire to cross

[Anonymous No.16605779]

>>16605728

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serbian_Americans

> Population: 184,818

let's ASSUME they all had 3 children. that would put serbians of pure serbian lineage at MOST 500k people of serbian descendants in a country of 330 million. just because you live in an area with a ton of serbs has little to do with anything i said. there's a ton of amernians where i live. do i say that there are many armenians or armenian descent people all over the US? nope, cuz i'm not a retard.

>>16605755
ok, whatever you think. i'll just ask all my friends with hyphenated names: do they feel more irish, italian, german, polish, english, welsh, french, portuguese, or greek?

[Anonymous No.16605783]

>>16605701
First generation Serbian American here. Mom was born in Serbia. Dad is Croatian.

[Anonymous No.16605794]

>>16605778
sea cucumber is OK, but i can't get over the cartilage stuff. one of my friends tried to get me to eat balut while i was in china and i had to refuse. grossest looking thing

[Anonymous No.16605801]

Ive had better luck stir frying in stainless steel frying pans.

[Anonymous No.16605804]

>>16605783
> sample size of 1

what's it like being a halfie and claiming to be a serb? i wonder what the people in serbia would think of that...

[Anonymous No.16605815]

>>16605642
This 100%. Make pasta.

[Anonymous No.16605816]

>>16605734
Yeah it is super easy. I mean if you're not good at developing flavor and don't use quality ingredients it won't be good.

I guess I don't know your style of cooking. I'm normally impressed by a well executed meal that's properly seasoned and enjoyable. I find forced authenticity contrived. If you have to go to a asian grocer and spend $50 on random ingredients you never use and likely never will use in the future to make a single meal seems stupid and forced to me.

If you want to impress her take her out to a nice dinner and find a legit chinese place if that's a must. if you are so motived you could even reach out to the restaurant in advance and see if they have anything special for your gf from China since they often have separate menus that are more authentic.

You do you though, maybe ask her if she has any favorite dishes you guys could try to make together. Then it's an actual activity and you can show off your skill in front of her.

[Anonymous No.16605820]

>>16605742
bao and chinese dumpling-esque things in general are quite hard to justify making in big cities with chinese people in them because it's like the cheapest good food you can buy and any of it if made from scratch WILL btfo yours

It makes way more sense to buy it.

[Anonymous No.16605827]

>>16605779
I still don't understand your fucking point, you were acting like it was impossible to have serbian grandparents. 4.8 million people currently living in the US are immigrants from Europe, that's fresh off the boat. Then they have kids and cousins and marry into other families. My point is there's a fuckton of people in the US that have grandparents or close relatives that are directly from Europe, or at least first generation.

[Anonymous No.16605831]

>>16605816
I'm not the op and that's kinda a false dichotomy. My example of something more impressive was hong shao rou or whole fish. Neither of which are necesserily that expensive (more expensive probably though) nor with a bunch of esoteric ingredients.

i like beef and brocolli and stir fries in general but it's just not something i'd suggest serving to impress someone as a beginner cook.

[Anonymous No.16605840]

>>16605816
>you can show off your skill in front of her.
>>16605604
>Is a wok mandatory for a stir fry?

>show off his skill

[Anonymous No.16605865]

>>16605831
If you're not OP, then how am I supposed to know what you suggested? I wasn't making a false dichotomy because I didn't even know what you suggested.

I wasn't comparing it to your post, I was comparing it to any number of things I could think of that are more "authentic" chinese dishes that may require specialty ingredients and techniques OP isn't used to.

Throwing shit in a pan and making some rice is dummy proof. OP didn't strike me particularly confident in his skills with chinese food. Also I was half making fun of his weird fascination with making food of the same ethnicity of his GF.

[Anonymous No.16605885]

>>16605840
Lmao well he might be good at cooking other things and might ask really stupid questions.

[Anonymous No.16605888]

>>16605639
are you daft? there is amazing german dishes. Lentis with spaetzle, Maultaschen, Kutteln, flammenkuchen, Kartoffelsalat, Kartoffelsuppe,Sauerkraut mit Kassler, there is alot of good food. do some research

[Anonymous No.16605899]

>>16605888
asparagus dishes, Dishes with mushrooms, pancakes german style, flädlesuppe

[Anonymous No.16605900]

>>16605840
I would fuck three of those sober, four of them drunk.
Sorry, fattie.

[Anonymous No.16605987]

>>16605628
you have been brainwashed into thinking that, wake up

[Anonymous No.16605997]

>>16605604
I guess she'd prefer some pig uterus noodles

[Anonymous No.16606003]

>>16605865
I just thought it would be a nice thing to do idk. I'll try to make something that isn't too spicy I don't like that either

[Anonymous No.16606016]

>>16605604
>Trying to impress my chinese gf with some authentic food
It is basically impossible for a westerner to do "authentic" Chinese food. You can do very good Chinese but it'll always be slightly off from "authentic."

>But Anon, very good is basically the same as authentic, no?
Not in my book. That said, that you tried should earn you points with your GF.

[Anonymous No.16606054]

>>16605622
this is the correct approach but its not really about a weeb and a wok its more along the lines of
why the fuck do i want to eat the same shit ive been eating my whole life or even a walmart version of it?

[Anonymous No.16606075]

>>16605604
if shes from China nothing you make will be authentic. So use whatever.
find a beef, Beijing noodle recipe and make that. it's the closest thing to edible, real, chinese food.

[Anonymous No.16606078]

first you have to catch and butcher your neighbor's dog

[Anonymous No.16606092]

>>16606054
true

[Anonymous No.16606094]

>>16606078
then you have to get some urine from underage virgin boys and soak eggs in them

[Anonymous No.16606099]

>>16605604
If you want to do it properly, fuck yeah it is.

[Anonymous No.16606157]

>>16605604
No.
https://youtu.be/WujehK7kYLM

[Anonymous No.16606185]

>>16605604
No, but the only real acceptable substitute is a cast iron pan. You want something that stores a ton of heat so when you crank the dial up to max, the food gets instantly seared the moment you drop it in.

[Anonymous No.16606590]

>>16605699
>high heat retention
you dont know what this means

[Anonymous No.16606615]

>>16605658
>>16605675
First post. Personally, my family was muttified before they came to America.
My great grandfather was a (mostly) Scott who married a Swiss woman born from a Germanic Swiss woman and a Frenchman, and they moved to Ireland after marriage, before making their way to the land of the brave.

[Anonymous No.16606667]

>>16605604
>stainless steel or carbon steel pan
>very high heat
>keep stirring
voilà, that's basically a wok

[Anonymous No.16606668]

>>16606590
Yes I fucking do, it means it retains heat well. What the fuck do you think it means?

Most good woks are either cast iron or carbon steel. Both of those have good heat retention capacity, as opposed to an aluminum non-stick skillet. Also you don't want to use anything non-stick in general since you aren't supposed to get those pans too hot.

[Anonymous No.16606670]

>>16605604
It's only mandatory if you're trying to wok her world!

[Anonymous No.16606693]

>>16605622
lmfao "ethnic background"

most people just make dishes that are popular globally, it's not the 1800s anymore

[Anonymous No.16606695]

>>16606667
>>16606590

Also see this comment, the reason you keep moving and spreading the food out is to increase the surface area that is in contact with a very hot surface.

The benefit of a wok's shape is that all the food settles at the bottom and you're able to keep the sides ripping hot while you stir the food around and have more surface area to deal with.... stir-fry get it?

[Anonymous No.16606721]

>>16605628
>i'm white i don't have an ethnic background
stop learning history from twitter

[Anonymous No.16606921]

>>16605604
The most important thing is the heat and you can't get that on a regular stove. Now fuck off normalfag.

[Anonymous No.16607024]

>>16605628
It do be like that doe

[Anonymous No.16607058]

>>16605628
>i'm white i don't have an ethnic background

This is so offensive it's almost funny

[Anonymous No.16607064]

>>16606054
Imagine going over to your Japanese gfs house and she tries her best to make you a burger. It’s not about the food, it’s about the desire to show affection by providing your best attempt at a “comfort food”. Not all people from every country is a professional chef when it comes to their local cuisine and are used to moms cooking which is likely average or subpar by culinary standards for that area. By presenting them with something they might be used to, even if poorly done, they’d still be appreciated. Even if it tastes like shit they’ll love the gesture and give you high-quality sexings.

[Anonymous No.16607068]

>>16605628
Do you really have no regional cuisine? What midwestern shithole do you live in?

[Anonymous No.16607095]

>>16605628
What did they do to you.

[Anonymous No.16607102]

Disgusting meme couple, just by being born with white skin is enough to impress your Chinese rat whore so don’t bother… that is until a better looking white chad comes along ;)

[Anonymous No.16607113]

>>16607064
If my Japanese gf's burger was bad or mediocre, but I know her Japanese cooking is good, I would tell her I prefer her Japanese cooking. Why would I want subpar food? I can make my own burger, better than her, but I don't know how to cook Japanese food.

[Anonymous No.16607129]

>>16606921
put tinfoil all over top of stove leaving holes where the gas comes out. remove the hat from the gas top so you get straight flame.
Turn on high gas mark. Ignite.

[Anonymous No.16607146]

>>16606721
You are making up people to be mad about. I've never seen a single person on twitter say white people can't have an ethnic background. It's true that "white" isn't an ethnicity, but that doesn't mean whites don't have an ethnicity. What do you think Irish, German, etc. people are?

[Anonymous No.16607149]

>>16607146
Twitter-tier response

[Anonymous No.16607154]

>>16607149
>no argument

[Anonymous No.16607172]

>>16607154
>twitter anime-poster
No cap on god senpai, you sus. Lemme finna get back to this microwave ramen real quick sis

[Anonymous No.16607180]

>>16605628
>i'm white i don't have an ethnic background
I suggest you kill yourself, retarded troll.

>>16607129
Don't do this. You'll die.

[Anonymous No.16607232]

>>16607180
>>>/wsg/4083568

[Anonymous No.16607242]

mate chinks litterly eat sewage and rats.

[Anonymous No.16607249]

>>16607242
And yet you cumskins crowd in droves to our food

Posting on ck asking for advice on how to make chink food

Haha

[Anonymous No.16607304]

I impressed my lao gf with khua mee. And her sister said I make asian ribs better than their dad

[Anonymous No.16607320]

>>16607304
Their both whores that would feed their father to a paper shredder for white cocku so it doesn’t mean too much

[Anonymous No.16607337]

>>16607249
1 (one) Chinese Yuan has been deposited to your account.

[Anonymous No.16607371]

>>16607249
I wouldn't go as far as calling americans cumskins. And I would not call it food.

[Anonymous No.16607389]

>>16607337
No need I’m not the whitey making threads about Asian food advice am
I? Practice what you preach, if you wanna be a coping polturd atleast don’t inquire about Asian food every other thread also

Hahaha

[Anonymous No.16607390]

im 26 and never kissed a girl

[Anonymous No.16607397]

>>16607371
Odd if it’s not food, why do these Nee Asian American restaurants in cities with whites as the majority of customers flourish so much, even when they charge 5 bucks for a bowl of rice?
Hahah

[Anonymous No.16607401]

>>16607390
Brutal , stats?

[Anonymous No.16607407]

>>16607401
5'7"

[Anonymous No.16607408]

>>16607397
because they have nothing in common with what is actually considered as "food" in china.

[Anonymous No.16607409]

>>16607407
Good, those genes should never be passed on

[Anonymous No.16607411]

>>16605731
Whiter than you, kike.

[Anonymous No.16607424]

>>16605604
My advice is to cook something you've made before and reliably know how to make. If you're trying to get your dick sucked you don't want to screw up. This website is a decent place to learn how to cook Chinese food: https://thewoksoflife.com

I cook Chinese in a cast iron pan. I never bought a wok and one one of those burners they sell at the Asian grocery store to get the really high heat for that wok hay flavor.

[Anonymous No.16607428]

>>16605697
>the other most obvious chinese dish which is impressive, imo, is doing a whole fish, steamed or fried, if you have access to a fish market where you can buy good fresh whole fish
> now, it's very possible to fuck that up by under/overcooking, but if you don't, it's extremely fun to eat, and a big cut above what people normally eat, and a big comfort food for chinese people that basically means 'baller'.

You can definitely fuck up steamed fish by cooking too long or not long enough, but it's easier than most dishes if you've never cooked Chinese food before.

[Anonymous No.16607517]

>>16607408
Seethe more whitey your food sucks and your cucked whites are obsessed with gook food, I prefer it not be this way because I don’t like paying 20 bucks for a bowl of noodles when the white cucks drive up prices

[Anonymous No.16608141]

>>16605604
>chinese gf without a wok
ngmi

[Anonymous No.16608199]

>>16606668
carbon steel woks are like 1-2mm thick
they have terrible heat retention because they have next to no thermal mass
they're designed for precise/fast heat control. Those things are diametrically opposite to heat retention.

Cast iron woks exist but they're an archaic niche thing

[Anonymous No.16608205]

>>16605628
empire

[Anonymous No.16608254]

>>16605631
>>16605641
>>16605664
>>16605987
>>16606721
>>16607024
>>16607058
>>16607068
>>16607095
>>16607180
>>16608205
>>16605628
>i'm white i don't have an ethnic background. idk what else I would make

Why is this upsetting, if you actually read into what he means in context? If your direct family don't have a good food culture, you as an individual don't have a good food culture. Your food starts with you. You can probably re-discover your traditional ancestoral culture through history if you chose, almost all of which are good, but that's something you might feel completely alienated from. It's not your identity and it doesn't have to be, as a new world person.

Why would it necesserily make any more sense for some fifth generation american, whose family have long since forgotten their roots, to learn to make spaetzle than chow fun? If you're going to base it on their contemporary culture, for an american chow fun probably IS more part of that than spaetzle because there are more likely to be restaurants that serve it where they live.

[Anonymous No.16608306]

>>16608199
I was the other anon, I wish you ignored that idiot and let he live in his own pool of ignorance

[Anonymous No.16608332]

>>16608254
He's implying that "white people", meaning the entire continent of Europe, has no food culture. He's an ignorant yet narcissistic self-hating pathetic little faggot who should fuck off back to lé réddite.

[Anonymous No.16608348]

>>16608332
I don't think he was.

That doesn't even make sense. And you won't find even so called 'anti-white liberal racists' who deny spanish/greek etc food exists and is good. That's not a real strawman.

[Anonymous No.16608355]

>>16608332
I think maybe you're confused because you think white=identity and therefor the entirety of europe is your own culture? That's not how most people think so there isn't some inverse form of your perverted logic.

[Anonymous No.16608423]

>>16608348
>>16608355
>this dishonest backtracking
Fuck off you racebaiting cancerous tourists. You're ruining /ck/ and 4chan overall with your cancer.

[Anonymous No.16608436]

>>16605604
>have a chinese girlfriend
>try to make her authentic food
why are you setting yourself up for failure?

[Anonymous No.16608452]

Hey boys looks like we've got a sex haver here>>16605604

[Anonymous No.16608457]

>>16608423
not an argument

[Anonymous No.16608473]

>>16608452
Uh ohhh.. BOIOIOIOINGGG HELLO!!!

[Anonymous No.16608507]

>>16608457
You have to go back.

[Anonymous No.16608734]

Do you even have the necessary stovetop for a wok?

[Anonymous No.16608753]

>>16608734
any gas stove can use a wok
the metal trivets it sit on are very easy to buy/ improvise

[Anonymous No.16608762]

>>16605658

american regional cuisine is really based its a shame most people dont understand it, even americans themselves.

[Anonymous No.16608776]

>>16605628
Clam chowder

[Anonymous No.16608780]

>>16605699
An optimal shaped wok, with a round bottom, is superior in mixing of the rice and vegetables

[Anonymous No.16608805]

>>16605628
The absolute state of Americ*ns.

[Anonymous No.16608931]

>>16605604
Make her fillet in a blue cheese sauce, accompanied with a green salad and a baked potato.

[Anonymous No.16608936]

>>16606693
Everyone has a favourite dish from their childhood. Which is then often passed on their kids.

[Anonymous No.16608939]

>>16608936
whats your favorite dish anon

[Anonymous No.16608952]

>>16608939
Anything roasted pork is right up my alley.
But if I'm gonna pick a dish from my grandmother I will say goulash.

[Anonymous No.16609241]

I would recommend making a high quality spaghetti and meatballs, or braised beef dish. Braised beef will take a lot longer but mostly unattended, whereas a good spaghetti and meatballs will require less time overall but you'll be stuck in the kitchen longer.

For braised beef I would either YouTube chef john or find beef Burgundy from Julia Child. For meatballs and sauce I like to do this

>meatball mix - 50% 80/20, 50% either ground pork or a pork Italian sausage of high quality you like.
>season with garlic, oregano, rosemary, lemon zest, salt, pepper
>breadcrumbs, one egg
>mix, form balls
>preheat oven to 300 f
>pan ripping hot
>sear your balls good, set them aside in batches on baking pan.
>if making big meaty balls these can go in for about 18 minutes and done but still juicy. Check on em halfway
>in the pan throw diced onion, a little grated carrot, and garlic
>once onion softens add wine and deglaze
>depending on how big your pan is you probably might need to transfer to taller saucepan. Do so, and add a large can of your favorite tomatos. Blend or break up the whole tomatos prior of course depending on what consistency you want
>cook down, adjust seasoning. I have fresh basil I like to toss in there.
>take out meatballs, place them in sauce, pour in all drippings from pan, and I guess just keep everything warm until ready to serve.

Idk how "correct" this is, but this is a recipe I've basically been tweaking that my grandmother had with tips ove picked up from the restaurant biz over time, but its probably one of the best things I make that is also simple.

[Anonymous No.16609242]

>>16605659
>>16605720
If she wanted to eat bugs, she would have stayed in China

[Anonymous No.16609429]

>miscegenating moron says he has no ethnic background

I wish I could hate you to death

[Anonymous No.16609431]

>>16605604
>Is a wok mandatory for a stir fry?
you just need a pan and to stir shit around in it. woks are probaby better but any big pan and whatever is fine

[Anonymous No.16609437]

>>16605604
>chinese gf
Sounds gay

[Anonymous No.16609453]

>>16605628
Anon I impressed my Chinese gf with a literal cider and tarragon ENGLISH chicken stew. She even put it on her wechat moments lmao. If an Anglo like me can do it, so can you. Remember that everything you consider basic is cool and exotic to a Chinese person.

[Anonymous No.16609469]

>>16605628
Also literally just make her a steak you stupid fuck. Steaks are sexy as fuck because they're associated with prestige and wealth and romance in the west, let alone in China, where that association is multiplied tenfold. It's also considered exotic as fuck to eat medium rare meat rather than cooking it all the way through -- which will probably be something she loves, but it might weird her out, so do check beforehand. And don't fucking come to me saying that steak isn't part of your ethnic culture, because it is.

Besides that, no, you don't need a wok to make stir fry authentically, but it REALLY helps. You need to cook stir fries for longer at lower heats on a normal pan, while a wok can fit more food and just fucking blast it with heat for a short amount of time which gives it a better texture and is just more convenient.
>>16605642
I think that's unfair. A Chinese woman who loves you will be impressed by your first attempt at cooking a stir fry.
>>16605655
lmao rip you
>>16606668
Woks get hot in a second and cool down in a second. They're not creusets, they're the opposite.

[Anonymous No.16609603]

>>16606668
>Both of those have good heat retention capacity,
WHAT A FUCKING RETARD YOU ARE