Chinese Cooking: Sauces & Spices
Sauces and spices are the key in any cooking. No dishes would taste good without them. The only exception is that some sea animals can be simply steamed or boiled before serve. Well, that is because they are salty already in their body. Imagine eating steamed river shrimp? I wouldn't bother!I'd like to introduce some of the most popular sauces and spices that we use everyday.
You may already know some of them, but I bet you haven't heard of others.SaucesBean Curd Sauce (Dou Fu Ru):Fermented bean curd, rich in proteins. May be kept for fairly long time. Comes in two types - red and white. Red is typically used to cook Braised Pork. White tastes spicy and is normally used as a side dish along with noodles, buns, or congee.
Some like to serve with soy sauce and vinegar for meat dumplings, hot pot dishes, and others. Favored by north and west of China.Oyster Sauce:Oil from oyster. Heavily salted. Use sparingly for saut?ed dishes. Popular in Hong Kong, Cantoon (Guang Dong, to be exact), and some areas in south of China while not used at all in north and west of China except for hotels and some restaurants.Shrimp Sauce:Oil from salted baby shrimp dried and fermented.
Use sparingly for saut?ed dishes. Used heavily for dishes from south of China.Sesame Sauce (Zhi Ma Jiang):Ground sesame seed with strong flavor. Used for cold dishes.Hot Pepper & Bean Sauce:Hot sauce made from combination of hot spices and beans. Red or brown in color. Use sparingly in sauteed dishes or cold dishes.
In north, people often mix this sauce to stir fried minced meat and serve with noodles (make it Noodles with Meat Sauce).Hot Pepper Oil:Made from sesame oil and red pepper. Serve with meat dumplings, buns, etc.Sesame Oil:Flavor is too strong for use in frying and saut?ing. Use only for enhancing flavor of cooked and cold dishes, noodles, hot pot sauce, soups, etc.JiangXi Vinegar:A special vinegar produced in JiangXi province. Light amber in color with a distinctive fragrance. Use for meat dumplings and cold dishes.SpicesStar Fennel:Shaped like eight cornered star, brown in color.
Use for cooking with chicken, meat, offal and fish.Anise Pepper:Dried brown round spice. Added sparingly in chicken and meat can remove the unpleasant smell (fishy smell). Can also be used for making pickles or even some deserts.Five Flavored Powder:A mixture of anise pepper, star fennel, clove, cinnamon, and dried tangerine peel. Sparingly used in cooking fish and meat.Pepper Salt:Mixture of anise pepper powder with salt. Serve with fried chicken, meat, and fish.(c)Copyrighted: You may freely republish this article as long as author bio and active hyperlinks are kept intact..
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Don't let your travel agent give you the false information that the Dominican Republic is cheap. It is NOT TRUE! The prices are triple US prices for the basic necessities. Add insult to injury 85% of their people are poor!The problem began when the last president drove the dollar to 56 to 1. Prices skyrocketed.The elections rolled around and the voters sent President Mejia packing his bags. The new American raised president, Leonel Fernandez took on huge loans with the International Monetary Fund and he raised taxes American style to unbearable levels for their impoverished people.This immediately plummeted the dollar back down to 28 to 1.
After about 6 months the merchants lowered the prices on some items by approximately 10% and raised the prices on most items to a comparable price as if the dollar were at around 60 to 1. Everyone refuses to lower prices even though the peso revalued 50%! Prices continue to climb on everything. From
a Coca Cola to a new car.
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Body and Facial Skin Care during Winter
Are you having trouble with maintaining your skin care during the the harsh winter season? Welcome to the club! But do not fret since there are still very practical ways for a perfect skin care even during winter.The activities of your mind and body are governed by three psycho-physiological energies known as Vata, Pitta and Kapha, as per the philosophies of ayurveda. Having perfet balance of this three energies is important for your good health. Once even one of these energies became imbalanced, your health may suffer.Further, these three energies are associated with a season. Vata, which qualities are dry, rough and cool, rides higher than usual in most people's physiologies during winter. Once mid-October to mid-February comes, Vata begin to show signs into people's physiologies.
This is the time when we feel that our skin is dry and flaky. We feel the experience of having disappointingly chapped lips and dry, brittle hair. So, once these manifestations begin to annoy you,...
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Hotpropertyinvestor.com Says UK Property Prices Down Again in August
(ContentDesk) September 9, 2005 -- House prices fell again in August, with the interest rate cut at the start of the month appearing to do little to revive the marketplace, figures show. The average cost of a property in England and Wales fell by 0.1% in August, according to property website Hometrack. Prices fell by 0.2% in July.It is the 14th month in succession that property prices have gone down.Hometrack says prices have now fallen by 3.7% over the last year. Interest rates were lowered to 4.5% on 4 August. The Bank of England reduced the base rate by one quarter of a percent, the first change since August last year.The average cost of a property in England and Wales is now ?161,000, almost ?7,000 less than in June 2004.Buyers' market"According to http://www.hotpropertyinvestor.co.uk UK property prices have failed to respond to the recent interest rate cut and continue their stagnating negative trend, which has now...
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Overseas property a discovery that must be told!
Copyright 2006 Nicholas Marr
There is an area in Brazil that has lower crime & lower property prices than where your are probably sitting right now!
Demand from the increasing retirement population and from those who have benefited from their own property markets are now pushing overseas property prices up. Brazilian property prices are still very low and offer the overseas property buyer quality real estate in stunning locations. Fortaleza the capital of Brazil's Northeastern state of Ceara is one such place. Popular with Brazilian and South American holiday tourists it is now being recognised by foreign property investors as an area that is taking the overseas property market by storm.
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What to do in a place like this- You can swim, surf, dive, sail, golf, play ball, ride, explore, bargain hunt, sight see, explore, or drive a dune buggy for 100 miles in any direction, take a jeep up...
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A Guide to Discount Pool Tables
Discount pool tables are commonly available. Check your local classified listings for liquidation closeout sales, auctions for seized items from bankrupted businesses, and so on. There you might be able to nab a brand new pool table for a fraction of its book value.
Discount pool tables are discounted for a number of reasons. Sometimes a model will no longer be manufactured; sometimes a table will be overstocked because it is an unpopular style, or a dealer may bee trying to make money faster by slashing prices. You can buy these discounted tables from manufacturers or from third-party detailers.
Another great place to buy discount pool tables is www.overstock.com.
Go to that website and enter "pool tables" into the search field. Browse through the options. The "new" prices will appear crossed out, and below that, the offering price will appear. Sometimes this lower price will be half as much as the higher price. Shipping prices can be as little as...
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I Want To Tan At Home
If you want to tan at home instead of at a tanning salon you should look at the home tanning beds on the market. You can find home tanning beds for sale in many different places.Home tanning beds make it easy to get that bronzed look in the comfort of your own home. When you decide to look at home tanning beds where should you start?You might want to do some comparing of home tanning beds using a consumer report type of publication. Talk to people who own tanning salons and see which beds they prefer. Ask any of your friends who own home tanning beds.You can look for home tanning beds online.
When you are comparing home tanning beds online be sure to read the reviews of people who have bought them.Compare prices of home tanning beds before you buy. You may be able to check out your local tanning salons for used beds that will work as home tanning beds. Some of the online stores have great prices on home tanning beds.You will not need to worry about using a lot of extra electricity...
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Where's The "Plastic" In Plastic Surgery?
Don't be looking for the Dupont Company sales rep the next time you visit a Plastic Surgeon's office because, despite popular belief, there's no "Plastic" in Plastic Surgery. The name is taken from the Greek word "plastikos" which means to "mold or shape." Initially plastic surgery procedures were limited to facial and body reconstruction caused by accidents, trauma, illness or birth defects. As people began to see the purely cosmetic possibilities, many surgeons expanded their services to include...
Where's The "Plastic" In Plastic Surgery?
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