Crispy Salt & Pepper Squid
This Salt & Pepper Squid is ultra crispy on the outside, tender inside, and packed with aromatic spice. Finished with garlic, chillies and a homemade spiced salt, it delivers bold flavour with every bite.
This Salt & Pepper Squid is ultra crispy on the outside, tender inside, and packed with aromatic spice. Finished with garlic, chillies and a homemade spiced salt, it delivers bold flavour with every bite.
This Vietnamese Ginger Chicken Stir-Fry is a sweet, savoury and aromatic dish featuring juicy chicken thighs stir-fried with caramelised shallots, ginger and garlic in a rich coconut palm sugar and fish sauce glaze. Sitting somewhere between a stir-fry and a braise, it's a comforting Vietnamese classic that's perfect with steamed jasmine rice.
A Quicker Way to Make Hainanese Chicken Rice is a streamlined, one pot version of the iconic Southeast Asian comfort dish. This A Quicker Way to Make Hainanese Chicken Rice recipe builds flavour by infusing chicken stock with ginger, spring onion and chicken bones, then cooking marinated chicken directly over fragrant fried rice so everything absorbs maximum depth in minimal time.
Traditional Hainanese chicken rice involves poaching a whole bird and cooking the rice separately in rendered chicken fat. This quicker method keeps all the soul of the dish while simplifying the process for home cooking, delivering glossy aromatic rice, tender chicken and a bright chilli ginger sauce.
This Nyonya Steamed Salmon is topped with a rich homemade sambal made from chillies, shallots, ginger and lime leaves. Steamed until perfectly tender, it's a fragrant Malaysian-inspired dish with the perfect balance of spicy, sweet and savoury flavours.
A super easy, perfectly spiced and succulent steamed salmon recipe, perfect for a midweek meal - this is Nonya Steamed Fish!
Quick and Easy Chop Suey is a Chinese American classic built around crisp vegetables, tender marinated chicken and a silky oyster sauce gravy. This Quick and Easy Chop Suey recipe focuses on proper wok technique, layering ingredients and maintaining crunch while achieving that glossy, restaurant style finish.
Traditionally created as a way to use up leftovers, Chop Suey is all about balance. Vegetables are lightly blanched to speed up cooking, chicken is velveted with cornflour for tenderness, and the sauce is reduced directly in the wok for a naturally thickened glaze.
Classic Cantonese Stir Fry
Unbelievable Chinese Oyster Sauce Beef and Broccoli is a Cantonese takeaway favourite built around tender slices of beef, vibrant green broccoli and a glossy oyster sauce finish. This Unbelievable Chinese Oyster Sauce Beef and Broccoli recipe focuses on proper wok technique, high heat control and a simple marinade that keeps the beef succulent while naturally thickening the sauce.
Oyster sauce is the backbone of many Cantonese stir fries. Combined with chicken stock, a dash of dark soy and a touch of sugar, it creates a rich, savoury glaze that coats both meat and vegetables beautifully. The key is cooking quickly at very high heat so the beef sears rather than steams.
Crispy Cantonese Style with Sweet & Sour Heat
General Tso’s Chicken is one of the most popular Chinese takeaway dishes in the West, known for its crispy deep fried chicken pieces coated in a glossy, sweet, tangy and lightly spicy sauce. This General Tso’s Chicken recipe follows a Cantonese style marinade and double fry technique to achieve ultra crisp chicken before wrapping it in a caramelised chilli vinegar glaze.
The secret to great General Tso’s Chicken is texture control. The chicken must be coated in a dry, dusty cornflour layer before frying. The sauce should be reduced to a syrupy consistency before tossing. And the final stir fry stage should be fast, hot and decisive so the chicken stays crisp.
Light & Fluffy Chinese Bao Buns are one of the most iconic steamed breads in Chinese cuisine, known for their pillowy texture and slightly sweet flavour. Popularised across Taiwan and Japan as hirata-style folded buns, these steamed bao are perfect for stuffing with crispy meats, grilled fillings or fresh vegetables.
Learning how to make Light & Fluffy Chinese Bao Buns at home is all about understanding dough texture, gluten development and correct steaming technique. Using medium-gluten wheat flour, similar to Western plain flour but milled finer, gives the buns their soft white finish. The key is kneading until smooth, allowing proper proving time and steaming over a vigorous boil.
UK-Style Fried Egg Noodles
Simply Delicious Chinese Chicken Chow Mein is one of the UK’s most loved takeaway dishes. Chow mein literally means “fried noodles”, and this Simply Delicious Chinese Chicken Chow Mein recipe follows the authentic wok clock method to achieve smoky wok hei flavour, silky marinated chicken and beautifully caramelised noodles.
The key to proper chow mein is soaking the egg noodles rather than boiling them, drying them thoroughly, and cooking everything over very high heat so the sauce wraps around each strand. When finished correctly, the noodles should be separate, lightly caramelised and barely sticking to the wok.
Singapore Fried Rice Vermicelli
Singapore Noodles, also known as Singapore Fried Rice Vermicelli, is a vibrant curry spiced noodle stir fry that is hugely popular in Chinese takeaways across the UK. Despite the name, the dish is believed to have Cantonese roots, combining rice vermicelli with Madras style curry powder for its signature golden colour and fragrant spice.
This Singapore Noodles recipe focuses on correct noodle preparation, high heat wok control and even distribution of curry spice through the classic “round and forward” folding motion.
The key is soaking, drying and cooking quickly so the noodles remain separate, lightly coated and never soggy.
Sichuan Style
Kung Pao Chicken is one of the most famous Sichuan stir fries, known for its bold heat, gentle sweetness and that unmistakable tingling sensation from crushed Sichuan peppercorns. This Kung Pao Chicken recipe follows a traditional balance of sweet, sour and savoury flavours, using chicken thighs for tenderness and a glossy sauce that caramelises quickly in a smoking hot wok.
The name Kung Pao is associated with Sichuan cuisine, where dried red chillies and Sichuan peppercorns create the signature mala effect. The key to authentic Kung Pao Chicken is high heat, proper sequencing and never losing your sizzle.
Easy Sichuan Chicken is a bold, spicy stir fry built around the signature mala flavour of Sichuan cuisine, combining heat from dried chillies with the distinctive tingling sensation of Sichuan peppercorns. This Easy Szechuan Chicken recipe balances savoury soy, fragrant garlic and chilli bean sauce with just enough sweetness to round out the spice.
Unlike heavily sauced takeaway versions, this method focuses on proper wok technique. High heat, quick searing and minimal sauce ensure the chicken stays tender while absorbing deep, smoky flavour.
