Essential Chinese Cooking Techniques

The Splendid Table: Conversations & Recipes For Curious Cooks & Eaters

American Public Media

Food, Arts

4.3 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2019

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Splendid Table Selects is our podcast that highlights conversations that make us better, more worldly cooks. In this episode we hear from Kian Lam Kho, a self-described tech geek who transformed himself into a chef and food writer. Kho’s Red Cook blog features authentic Chinese recipes from his native Singapore. His first cookbook Phoenix Claws and Jade Trees is an wonderful introduction to Chinese home cooking organized by cooking techniques and methods. Contributor Melissa Clark met up with Kian in New York to learn more. Kian was also kind enough to share his recipe for Red-cooked Pork.

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March 26, 2019

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0:31.4	Our common nature is a musical journey with Yo-Yo Ma and me, Anna Gonzalez, through this complicated country.
0:38.7	We go into caves, onto boats, and up mountain trails to meet people, hear their stories,
0:44.4	their poetry, and of course, play some music, all to reconnect to nature and get closer to the things we're missing.
0:54.6	Listen to Our Common Nature from WNYC, wherever you get podcasts.
1:07.3	Hey, I'm Frances Lamb, and this is Splendid Table Select,
1:13.7	our mini podcast on the stuff that makes us better cooks and eaters.
1:21.5	Kian Lamcoe grew up in Singapore.
1:29.4	He came to the U.S. in the 70s to study engineering and made a career in software, but he always missed the Chinese food he grew up with.
1:33.0	He turned that into a passion for studying and learning the cuisine.
1:35.2	He started blogging, taught cooking classes.
1:42.3	He eventually wrote a cookbook called Phoenix Clause and Jade Trees, which won the IACP Julia Child First Book Award.
1:46.8	What's really cool about the book is that it's organized, you know, not by regions or flavors,
1:50.0	but by the techniques of Chinese cuisine.
1:55.3	Things like red cooking, dry stir frying, oil steeping, and yin yang frying.
2:00.6	Our contributor, Melissa Clark met up with Kean in New York to learn more about some of those techniques.
2:01.8	Have a listen.
2:04.6	Hi, Kian, welcome.
2:05.8	Thank you.
2:07.1	Thank you for having me here.
2:11.0	Kian, I love your book, and I love the way it's organized.
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