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Ingredients :- aubergine - bamboo shoots - beancurd - bean sprouts - black beans - caul fat - chillies (fresh chillies, dried red chillies) - chilli powder - chilli oil / chilli dipping sauce - chinese broccoli - chinese chives - chinese flowering cabbage - chinese leaves( peking cabbage ) - chinese white cabbage ( bok choy ) - chinese long beans - chinese white radish ( mooli ) - cinnamon sticks or bark - citrus peel - coriander ( chinese parsley or cilantro ) - cornflower - egg white - fish sauce - five-spice powder - flours ( glutinous rice flour, rice flour ) - garlic - ginger - ginger juice - ham - leeks - lemon grass ( cymbopogon citratus ) - lily buds - maltose sugar - mangetout - mushrooms ( chinese dried mushrooms, chinese tree fungus, chinese wood ear fungus, straw mushrooms ) - noodles or pasta ( beanthread / transparent noodles, egg noodles and wheat noodles, rice noodles, to cook wheat and egg noodles ) - oils ( groundnut oil, corn oil, other vegetable oils, sesame oil ) - oysters, dried - peanuts - rice ( long-grain rice, short-grain rice, glutinous rice ) - rice paper ( banh trang ) - sauces and pastes ( chilli bean sauce, chilli sauce, hoisin sauce, oyster sauce, sesame paste, soy sauces, whole yellow bean sauce ) - sausages, chinese - sesame seeds ( to make toasted sesame seeds ) - shaoxing rice wine - shallots - sherry - shrimps, dried - shrimp paste - silk squash ( chinese okra ) - spinach - spring roll skins - star anise - sugar - szechuan peppercorns - szechuan preserved vegetable - tea, chinese black - vinegar ( white rice vinegar, black rice vinegar, red rice vinegar ) - water chestnuts - wheat starch - wonton skins

Equipment :- wok ( choosing a wok, wok stand, wok lid ) - spatula - rack - bamboo brush - steamers - sand or clay pots

Wok cooking techniques :- stir-frying - blanching - poaching - deep-frying - shallow-frying - slow-simmering and steeping - braising and red-braising - steaming - twice-cooking - re-heating foods - smoking

Appetizers

• Vietnamese-style spring rolls

• Dipping sauce

• Thai crispy prawn-coconut treats

• Crispy thai-style wontons

• Crispy prawn and ham balls

• Tasty stir-fried broad beans

• Parchment paper fish

• Savoury stuffed orange slices

• Sweetcorn pork fritters with coriander

• Crispy beggar's purses

• Vegetarian crispy beggar's purses

• Crackling rice crisps with dipping sauce

Soups

• Spicy soup with spring onions

• Refreshing cucumber soup

• Chinese-style fish soup

• Vietnamese-style noodle soup

• Succulent meatball noodle soup

• Creamy corn and crab soup

• Winter melon soup

• Chicken stock

• Double-steamed chinese cabbage soup

• Vegetable stock

• Sizzling rice soup

• Hearty meatball vegetable soup

Fish and shellfish

• Lillian's beijing-style sweet and sour fish

• Aromatic five-spice trout

• Spicy fish curry

• Singapore-style oyster omelette

• Fragrant prawn curry

• Prawn and pork stir-fry

• Deep-fried salt and pepper oysters

• Stir-fried fish with black bean sauce

• Savoury clams and pork in lettuce cups

• Stir-fried prawns with water chestnuts

• Stir-fried scallops with mangetout

• Singaporean-style curry crab

• Steamed scallops with chilli and ginger

• Shaoxing rice wine prawns

• Ginger scallops with chinese greens

• Stir-fried squid with peas

• Fried fish with thai dipping sauce

• Mussels in coconut curry sauce

• Fish with rainbow vegetables

• Thai-style prawns with lemon grass

• Pan-fried salmon with tomatoes

• Stir-fried prawns with fresh asparagus

• Coconut prawns

Meat

• Hunan-style lamb

• Fragrant stir-fried beef with peppers

• Crunchy peanut beef

• Savoury beef with asparagus

• Stir-fried beef with corn

• Braised korean-style spareribs

• Stir-fried garlic pork

• Szechuan-style pork

• Ginger tomato beef

• Spicy orange lamb

• Stir-fried vietnamese-style lemon grass beef

• Savoury pork tomato sauce

• Thai-style meatballs

• Szechuan-style pork with peanuts

• Stir-fried curry beef

• Vietnamese-style beef stew

• Calves liver with spicy black bean sauce

• Spicy pork with fragrant basil

• Thai-style chilli beef

• Stir-fried chillipork with cashews

Poultry

• Peter NG's sesame-ginger chicken

• Ginger-flavoured provencal chicken

• Soothing chicken porridge

• Quick and healthy steamed chicken

• Thai-style chicken

• Braised chicken with fresh water chestnuts

• Fragrant roast aubergine with chicken

• Braised garlic chicken

• Lettuce-wrapped chicken

• Honeyed chicken wings

• Spicy chicken with mint

• Indonesian-style coconut chicken

• Burmese-style chicken

• Balinese-style chicken

• Delectable broccoli chicken

• Vietnamese-style lemon grass chicken

• Pineapple chicken

• Vietnamese-style chicken curry

• Lemon grass chicken with chilli

• Thai-style ginger chicken

• Braised duck with chestnuts

• Aromatic fried chicken

• Strange-taste stir-fried eggs

• Cantonese-style chicken wings with oysters

Vegetables

• East-west chips

• Quick and easy noodle and bean sprout salad

• Simple beijing-style marinated cucumber salad

• Rainbow vegetables with curry

• Stir-fried lettuce with savoury bacon

• Broccoli in fragrant wine sauce

• Braised chinese radish with chilli

• Hong Kong-style broccoli and baby corn

• Braised chinese mushroom beancurd casserole

• Braised peking cabbage with bean sprouts

• Easy mangetout and sweet water chestnuts

• Stir-fried celery in two-bean sauce

• Spinach with fried garlic

• Stir-fried courgettes with fresh chilli

• Rich aubergine with tomato and basil

• Stir-fried spicy broccoli

• Sesame beancurd

• Crispy beancurd with tomatoes

• Savoury stuffed tomatoes

• Braised aubergine casserole with prawns

• Stir-fried cabbage with carrots

• Sweet and sour onions

• Siimple stir-fried mushrooms

• Red-cooked smoky braised mushrooms

• Steamed aubergines with red peppercorns

• Stir-fried carrots and parsnips

• Zesty onion and peas

• Coconut vegetable stew

• Mushroom beancurd

• Thai-style cauliflower

• Healthy beancurd with broccoli

• Thai-style sweet and sour vegetables

• Fried sweet potato sticks

Rice, noodles and pasta

• Egg fried rice

• Spicy malay-style laksa

• Hainanese chicken rice

• Guo Bu Li's beef noodle soup

• Piquant hokkien-style prawn and noodle soup

• Fried rice with chinese sausage

• Quick prawn fried rice

• Refreshing cucumber with noodles

• Stir-fried pasta with orange and curry

• Thai-style noodles with chicken

• Family-style mushroom rice with beancurd

• Curry rice noodles with vegetables

• Vegetarian hot beanthread noodles

• Malaysian-style rice noodles

• Indonesian-style fried rice

• Thai-style curry rice

• Fragrant rice

• Taiwanese pork chops with noodle soup

• Beanthread noodles with crab

• Garlic fried rice

• Steamed rice

Desserts

• Fluffy steamed cantonese cake

• Poached ginger pears

• Warm berry compote with basil

• Thai-style steamed pumpkin custard

• Watermelon salad

• Stewed pineapple

• Pineapple fritters

• Exotic fruit salad

• Bananas in sweet coconut milk

• Refreshing grapefruit salad

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