Chinese Food Made Easy
bazza
July 09, 2008 at 08:29 PM posted in General Discussion[Review from Radio Times]
Chinese Food Made Easy
Monday 07 July
8:30pm - 9:00pm
BBC2
1/6 - Takeaway Favourites
There's a shock moment in this new cookery show when presenter Ching- He Huang reveals the quantities of fat, sugar and salt in the average Chinese takeaway meal. It's not a pretty sight. In fact, it may put you off the whole idea of takeaways for some time. And that would suit the tirelessly chirpy Ms Huang nicely because she wants to show us how easy it is to create takeaway favourites in our own kitchens. Her healthier versions of chicken chow mein and beef in oyster sauce look fabulous and, yes, dead easy. So easy that we see Britain's women's rowing captain cook them, too, just so we know there's nothing to it. It's all very jolly, and after half an hour with Huang, you'll be itching to throw away that flyer from the Golden Dragon and get to wok.
RT reviewer - David Butcher
bazza
July 12, 2008 at 10:04 AM
Episode 1 is now available to view in full on the website, but I think it's part of BBC iPlayer so probably won't work outside the UK.
lostinasia
July 10, 2008 at 02:07 AM
Strangely, the (trivial) post I added is still listed in "My Conversations", and I can follow the link here, but now that I'm here the post doesn't appear.
That is an odd bug. What power you have been given! Use it wisely!
bazza
July 09, 2008 at 08:34 PM
Oh dear, that's a pretty serious bug. I assumed you'd to be able to move a whole topic into a group by editing it, but it's removed all of the follow-up comments.
lostinasia
July 08, 2008 at 12:12 PM
"Easy to cook, easy to eat, Gusteau makes Chinese food 'Chine-Easy'!"
Sorry. Ratatouille quote. Couldn't resist.
Cool link.
Now if someone could just teach me how to make things FAST. I'm adequate in the kitchen, but in the time it takes me to make one decent dish, my Taiwanese mother-in-law will produce 5-6.
dpay02
July 08, 2008 at 11:48 AM
Yeh, I saw it! :) I'm not a cook but am gonna have a bash at recreating the egg fried rice later and possibly the oyster sauce beef thingy. I think Chinese takeaway can really vary in quality a hell of a lot, back in Portsmouth where I attend uni me and my Chinese friends have found a pretty authentic place where the food is absolutely fantastic, however once I got back to my hometown (a small town in sleepy Suffolk), I'm not kidding when I say the food from a local takeaway was barely above the edible mark. You gonna cook anything Bazza?
bazza
July 29, 2008 at 06:16 PMOk well I'm officially in love...