【chengducooking】Cooking Diary Clio&Aaron on 09/11/2015

Chengdu Cooking is very lucky to have two distinguished guests Clio Goodman and Aaron Gallentine from the United States on this Saturday.
Both of them are very experienced chefs.
Clio Goodman, grew up in a cooking family,is a very famous pastry chef and ran a famous bakery named Puddin’ by Clio in New York, which was even reported by New York Times.At the very beginning, Clio was a private chef. She started to make pudding just by an occasional request from her employer. After her first successful shot, Clio started her Pudding Chef career and achieved big success.

Aaron Gallentine has been studying Chinese in Fu Dan University and Zhe Jiang University for 4 years, thus he can speak perfect Chinese. After learning Chinese, he moved to Chengdu and spent 1 more year here to learn cooking Sichuan cuisines. He is such a big fan of Sichuan dishes that he just only eats Sichuan dishes other than the regular American food after moving back. Now he is managing a Chinese restaurant of Cantonese food in New York. Aaron is so amazing not only because he can speak perfect mandarin and Cantonese, but also he can cook Sichuan Dishes and Cantonese Dishes very well.

Although Clio has tasted many Chinese dishes before, but she never got such a chance to cook Chinese food by her own.Today she is learning to cook Kung Pao Chicken and Fish Flavored Shredded Pork, which makes her very excited.Clio’s cutting skill is very good and her first cooking, Kung Pao Chicken, is very successful.
Aaron himself is a very experienced chef. So this time for him is much more like a cooking experience exchange party. We talked a lot and also shared a lot about cooking and travelling. I am very impressive on his personality and feel very grateful for his advice.

This time Clio and Aaron arranged a one month round China trip to deeply explore Chinese culture. During their journey, they captured all the interesting moments by video. They are planning to make a TV program by using those collected materials to let Americans to have a better understanding of China. Pretty cool!
Thanks to Chengdu Cooking for giving us the opportunity to know each other.
Hope that we can meet again, some day or somewhere around the world.
Wish you guys the best!

【chengducooking】Secret Recipe Home Cuisines

Private Home Cuisine literally means the special cuisines served at home-based restaurants which are cooked by the host in a very traditional and secret way. The history of Private Home Cuisine could be traced back to the end of Qing dynasty. It was very popular among the rich and officials.

The dishes of Private Home Cuisine are very special and the flavors of same cuisine may differ from one restaurant to another, because every restaurant has its own secret cooking recipes and skills, which were handed down from their ancestors generation by generation. Due to the limited supply, sometimes it even takes a month for reservation.

Private Home Cuisine is much more like a warm home party with family members and friends rather than a meal in a fancy and noisy restaurant. You can even watch the whole cooking procedures if you like.

The Private Home Cuisine in Hongkong, Guangzhou, Beijing and Sichuan are very hot, because those areas are the original places of the 8 major dishes in China. Nowadays people choose Private Home Cuisine to eat not only for status but also for the culture.

Chengdu Cooking Secret Recipe Home Cuisines

Dinner For 1~3 GuestsRMB 500.00 RMB 800.00StartersKou Shui Ji (pot-stewed chicken in red oil sauce) 
Sweet & Sour Pork RibsCold Bean Jelly

Main CourseKung Pao Shrimp with Cashew NutsGolden Beancurd with SeafoodStuffed Black MushuroomBai Zhuo Phoenix TailSaute Marbled PorkBamboo Rice

Dessert
Sweet-scented Osmanthus,Snow Fungus and Lotus Seeds Geng
Drinks
Fresh Fruit & Vegetable Juice

Why choose us?

1.An unique and unforgettable dinning experience.
2.Highly recommended on Tripadvisor.3.Traditional Chinese culture ambience.4.English introduction about the cuisines.5.No MSG.6.Open kitchen and you can see Chefs prepare the food in front of you.

See what does our Secret Home Recipes Lunch or Dinner look like？

Information:
Time: Lunch: AM 11:00~ PM 1:00, Dinner: PM 6:00~8:00Runs: EverydayIncluding: unlimited soft drinks, lemon juice, beers.
Price:1~3 Guests RMB 500.00 RMB 800.00 4~6 Guests RMB 800.00 RMB 1200.00 7~8 Guests RMB 1000.00 RMB 1500.00Valid until 2016 May.31st

How to book?
1. Call 13438878916 or mail us (contact@chengducooking.com) to check the availability and we will mail the menu to you.
2. Make a payment on the booking page and email us to confirm your reservation payment.
A deposit of RMB 400.00 / USD 68.00 is required to confirm the reservation, the balance will be paid after the meal.

Photo gallery of the dinner.

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【chengducooking】Dumpling Cooking Class Party on Aug.8th.2015.

Learn traditional Chinese pastry and make new friends at Chengdu Cooking!Here is the information for those who are interested
Information:
Duration: Around 4 hoursMorning class: 9:30 AM to 1:30 PMWhat’s included:pastry cooking class,local wet market tour,all ingredients for making the dumplings,lunch,soft drinks and featured snacks.Maximum: 6 people. Meeting point: Bank of China. Clikc to see directions.Special offer: 200RMB/Person instead of 400RMB/Person.
How to make a booking?
1. Reply our post on Chengduliving.com to get the special offer.
2. Add our wechat: chengducooking.
3. Confirm with us for availability.
Tips:First Come First Serve.
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Knead Dough

Rolling Dough

Prepare the Stuffing

Making Dumplings

Enjoy the Food!Yummy!

【chengducooking】Fish Flavored Shredded Pork Recipe

Long time ago, there was a business family in Sichuan, their family members liked to eat fish and cared about the flavor very much. When they cooked the fish, they usually add some ginger, garlic, cooking wine, vinegar and soy sauce to remove the fishlike smell.One night, the hostess was cooking another dish, in order not to waste the seasonings. She added the seasonings which were left from the previous cooking for the fish to stir fry with this dish. At first, she thought that the dish might not be good. She was worried about it that her husband came back. The special fragrance made her husband couldn’t wait to have a taste before the dinner. It was so delicious that her husband wondered how she cooked this dish. Then she told him the secret.So actually there is no fish or fish fragrance in the Fish Flavored Shredded Pork, it is only using a combination of seasonings to cook the vegetable and pork instead of fish. After many years, the Sichuan people made continuous improvements of this dish. The particular taste of this dish was soon popular all over the country.

Fish Flavored Shredded Pork Cooking Recipe 
Ingredients (zhu liao)Lean meat (jing shou rou)
Lettuce (wo sun)
Fresh black fungus (hei mu’er)
Marinade(yan zhi)Selected soy sauce, (sheng chou)
sugar, (tang)
Dark soy sauce,(lao chou)
Meat tenderizer
Water, (shui)
Add all the above ingredients together with the meat. Mix them thoroughly. Pickle them for 15 minutes.
Spices (tiao liao)
Grlic (suan)
Pickled ginger (pao jiang)
Pickled chili (pao la jiao)
Pi Xian broad bean paste
Scallion (cong)
Sauce (tiao wei zhi)
Selected soy sauce, (sheng chou)
Vinegar, (cu)
Water, (shui)
Starch, (dian fen)
Sugar, (bai tang)
Method (fang fa)Heat a wok, add some cooking oil, add the shredded pork, turn off the heat until its color become white. Pick them out and set aside.
Turn on the heat, add the pickled chili, pickled ginger, garlic and broad bean paste and stir fry until you can smell the fragrance.
Add the shredded lettuce and shredded black fungus, stir fry for about 20 seconds.
Add the shredded pork and the sauce, fast stir fry until well combined.
Pick them out and serve them with scallion.

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