Showing posts with label ginger. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ginger. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Cantonese ginger sauce


I have had different kinds of Chinese dishes. Except for the volume, I never liked Chinese food around campus. After going to some good Chinese restaurants and tasting home-made Chinese food, I know why. It was the difference between real Chinese and American Chinese, lol. One of my favorite style is Cantonese! I still haven't researched enough to say much about it but I know several Cantonese dishes I love. One of them is the Cantonese ginger sauce. You don't really need an exact recipe. Just mix up some oil with chopped ginger and scallions, and sprincle some salt. It is one of the BEST dipping sauces for chicken. You can dip anything other than chicken if you like.

Monday, October 20, 2008

OSU Chinese Restaurant

I decided to go back to Ohio for the weekend. My friends were asking me to pick a restaurant for lunch--of course, we were already talking about food. I thought of Sushi Ting, which serves decent Japanese food near campus. But, I couldn't do without Yau's. Hiroko and Naoya used to go there often. At that time, I thought it was just too far away from M-Castle. Once I tried the food there tho, I got addicted to it. With the construction of Ohio Union, Yau's was one of the few decent Chinese places close to campus. Since we went there more than once a week, Yau's was like our home towards the end of my last year at OSU. Like Kris mentioned, I have some favorites there. One is Chao Gui Dew. The ingredients are a mytery to me too. I like different kinds of meat and the wide rice noodles in it<3 Although it is spicy, I can never get enough of it. Another one is Mushroom Ginger Pork! If I haven't mentioned, I am a BIG mushroom lover. If I am looking upset, please offer me some mushroom. That can make everything better. Anyways, I did a bad job of taking a pic of mushroom ginger pork. I got more rice than mushroom, lol. This is a kind of dish you want with plain steamed rice. I thought it was a lot but I ate the whole thing without trouble;P. I have mushrooms and pork. I can try to experiment and find out the recipe for the light sauce. I think it has soy sauce, salt, rice wine and oyster sauce but I could be wrong. Chinese food seems so easy but yet hard to make it right!

If I had more time, I would have gone to a lot of places tho. I shall write down a list of places I remember off the top of my head:
Sushi Ting
NorthMarket
Pat Thai
Happy Greek
Akaihana
Japanese Steak House
Minga
Japanese Oriental Restaurant
Cazouela's?
Taj Mahal
Sunflower
Waffle House:)
Hoggies
Mamma's?
Yum Yum Tea?
Rally's
Buckeye Donuts!!
Lee Garden
Northstar Cafe
Some other Chinese places I don't remember the names of