Jinghao Wen Jinghao Wen
From My Kitchen

Recipes

菜谱

Cooking is another form of attention — to ingredients, to heat, to time.

Steamed Sea Bass
Cantonese · Main
Steamed Sea Bass

Eight minutes, soy sauce, ginger, and hot oil. The simplest things done perfectly.

Lamb Hand-Pulled Rice (Plov)
Uyghur · Main
Lamb Hand-Pulled Rice (Plov)

Lamb, carrot, onion and rice cooked together in one pot. Central Asian comfort food.

Roast Duck
Beijing · Main
Roast Duck

Air-dried overnight, honey-glazed, oven-roasted. Crispy skin is the whole point.

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Xinjiang · Main
Grilled Lamb Chops

Cumin, chili flakes, salt. Nothing more is needed.

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Mongolian · Main
Hand-Pulled Lamb

Boiled whole, pulled by hand, dipped in garlic and vinegar. Nomadic and primal.

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Sichuan · Cold Dish
Mouthwatering Chicken

Poached chicken, Sichuan chili oil, numbing peppercorns, sesame paste. Cold and alive.

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Western · Main
Pan-Seared Steak

Cast iron, high heat, butter basting. Medium-rare or nothing.

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Hunan · Braised
Hunan Red-Braised Pork

Doubanjiang, dried chilies, and dark soy. Spicier and more aggressive than Shanghainese.

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Hangzhou · Braised
Dongpo Pork

Su Dongpo's recipe, unchanged for a thousand years. Three hours, Shaoxing wine, patience.

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Cantonese · Braised
HK-Style Beef Brisket Pot

Daikon, beef brisket, spiced broth. Hong Kong winter in a clay pot.