Mister Jiu’s in Chinatown - Recipes and Stories from the Birthplace of Chinese American Food 9781984856517, 2020004093, 9781984856500
The acclaimed chef behind the Michelin-starred Mister Jiu’s restaurant shares the past, present, and future of Chinese c
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English Year 2021
Table of contents :
Cover
Title Page
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Copyright
Contents
Epigraph
Introduction
1: The (New) Chinatown Pantry | Building Flavors, Textures, and Aromas
STOCKS
Supreme Stock
Chicken Stock
Fish Fumet
SPICES
Spice Blends
SAUCES AND CHILE OILS
Peanut Butter–Hoisin Sauce
Red XO Sauce
Basic Chile Oil
Lanzhou Chile Oil
Spicy Beef Chile Oil
FERMENTS AND PICKLES
Fermented Mustard Greens
Fermented Tokyo Turnips
Fermented Kohlrabi
Fermented Chile Paste
Pickled Shiitake Mushrooms
Hot Mustard
CHARCUTERIE
Cured Beef Heart
Lap Cheong
Lap Yuk
BREADS, BAO, AND BING
Milk Bread
Mantou and Bao
Chinese Pancakes
2: Bites | Dumplings and Xiao Chi
Cherry Mui
Smoked Oyster You Tiao
Brined Celtuce
Spicy Crispy Peanuts
Prawn Toast
Sourdough Green Onion Pancakes
Orange Chicken Wings
Four Seasons of Pot Stickers
Seafood Shui Jiao
Squid Ink Wontons
Chicken in a Space Suit
Wild Mushroom Bao
Crispy Scarlet Turnip Cakes
Sea Urchin Cheung Fan
Pig Trotter Ham Sui Gok
Jin Deui
3: Soup | Always Order Soup
Sizzling Rice Soup
Yellow Corn and Squash Blossom Egg Drop Soup
Pork Ribs and Winter Melon Soup
Hot and Sour Soup
Oxtail Soup
4: Vegetables | To Market with Ying Ying (Bring Cash)
Mustard Green Salad
Mandarin and Chinese Almond Salad
Tendrils, Greens, and Stems
Taiwanese-Style Eggplant
Seared Napa Cabbage
Mushroom Mu Shu
Moo Goo Gai Pan
Gong Bao Romanesco
Asparagus, Olives, and Smoked Doufu
Silken Doufu with Rib-Eye Cap Mapo
Carrot Ma Jiang Mian
Mouthwatering Tomatoes and Liang Fen
5: Seafood | WWJD (Keep It Simple)
Sizzling Fish
Salt-Baked Trout
“Hunan-Style” Crispy Petrale Sole
Whole Dungeness Crab
Salt and Pepper Squid
Poached Spot Prawns
Hangtown Egg Foo Young
6: Meat + BBQ | Cooking with Fire (and Water)
Four Seas Crispy Chicken
White-Cut Chicken Galantine
Liberty Roast Duck
Squab in Lettuce Cups
Lion’s Head Meatballs
Dutch Crunch BBQ Pork Buns
Siu Yuk (Crispy Pork)
Xinjiang Lamb Skewers
7: Rice | From the Delta to the Delta
Steamed Rice
Fermented Grain Jook with Lobster
Steak Fried Rice
Noh Mai Gai (Quail with Sticky Rice)
8: Dessert | Beans, Oranges, and Pork Fat
Parisian Dan Tat
Baked Nian Gao
Banana–Black Sesame Pie
Coffee Crunch Cake
Steamed Kabocha Cake with Soy Milk Ice Cream
Frozen Whipped Honey
9: Banquets + Parties | Good Times and Good Luck
Eternity
Luck
HOT POT
Hot Pot Broths
Fish Balls
Sesame-Garlic Sauce
Shacha
Dedication
Acknowledgments
One Last Thing
Index
About the Author
