Chinese Food. What's the secret?

[BowWow]

A lot of their recipes use ginger and garlic, anything fries is normally breaded with corn starch. They also use it to thicken up sauces. Basically anywhere you would normally use flour, use corn starch instead.

 

[noway2]

when i worked for Procter&Gamble,
we had a restaurant product that the Chinese liked.
i have been in too many Chinese kitchens and have seen their "secrets" :
the absence of basic sanitation methods and disregard for child labor laws.

Absence of sanitation … I had a recipe for Chinese red sauce that you keep reusing. You cook chicken in it and save the sauce in the fridge for next time, perpetually. The recipe did suggest boiling it pretty good before each use, just in case. Still surprised it didn’t become a mold experiment.

 

[kcult]

If you want the taste of the red mystery meat you find at Chinese buffets, it's this stuff.

 

[RetiredUSNChief]

Pretty much covered everything here except the waitstaff.

The important of having the proper waitstaff cannot be understated.

 

[Scsmith42]

For really fresh Chinese food, you want to pick a restaurant that is close to the food source..

 

[Gardner]

This guy is fascinating, a one man band in Osaka Japan ETA: the fun starts at 1:20

Chinese in Japan