Why is cumin more often used in Chinese cuisine than western cuisine, is it because it’s addictive?
look at the lamb kebab made by Xinjiang people. SO DELICIOUS! I MISS IT TO DEATH, but i can’t find in US, anywhere in the US, and i’ve been to almost 1/3 of US states! nothing i find!
Lamb is not as popular in the US as it is in China. However, any Afghani or Pakistani restaurant should have them.
Cumin is commonly used in the US in a variety of meat dishes. However, it is not typically used as a coating like it is for the lamb kabobs.
You can always go to the grocery store and have them cut the lamb for you and you can grill your own. You don’t need the sticks!
Like you, I LOVE lamb kabobs, but have found them in the US. What I haven’t been able to find is shao kao. Now *that* is amazing food! So unhealthy though, so we have it only once a week.
EDIT: By the way, cumin is available in almost every major grocery store in the US. http://shop.safeway.com/dnet/RichProductInformation.aspx?promo_window=1&bpn=114150333
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Beijing Beef Recipe like Panda Express – Chinese Food
Beijing Beef Recipe like Panda Express Copycat Recipe- Chinese Food
Ingredients:
3/4 lb flank steak, fat and silver-skin removed – sliced into thin strips
6 tablespoons cornstarch, for dusting
Oil, for frying
Marinade:
1 egg
1/4 teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons water
1 tablespoon cornstarch
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2 chopped cloves garlic
1 shallot sliced
6 – 8 assorted chili peppers
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Sauce:
4 tablespoons water
2 tablespoons sugar
3 tablespoons ketchup
1 tablespoon vinegar
1 teaspoon chili sauce
1 tablespoon hoisin sauce
Preparation:
Cut beef into thin strips against the grain. In a bowl combine marinade and refrigerate at least 15 minutes.
Heat ingredients for sauce and bring to a boil. Add 1 tablespoon corn starch then simmer.
Coat beef with 6 tablespoons cornstarch, shake off excess.
Quickly deep fry in wok, remove to paper towel and remove all except 2 tablespoons oil.
Add garlic shallot and peppers.
Stir in beef.
Pour sauce into the wok and heat until boiling.
Quickly stir and serve.
Duration : 0:2:13
Categories: Chinese Food Tags: animation, animation short, Arts, Baking, beef, Beijing, chinese, cooking, Copycat, Crafts, Dessert, Express, food, food porn, Howto, like, music, Panda, recipe, Special Effects, stop motion, video clip, Videography, vlog
02. The Dirty Shame – Chinese Resturant (Smog Cutter Love Story)
Update: Everyone go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdFazfHsP5k and listen to the rest of the album, some kind soul uploaded it when I couldn’t 
Second track off Smog Cutter Love Story by The Dirty Shame, a now-defunct solo project by Tyler Spencer, lead singer of Electric Six.
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Duration : 0:4:11
Categories: Chinese Restaurant Tags: chinese, cutter, dick, dirty, electric, Love, resturant, shame, six, smog, spencer, Story, the, tyler, valentine
Chinese Noodles (Indo Chinese) Recipe Video
Detailed Recipe: http://showmethecurry.com/fusion/chinese-noodles.html
Duration : 0:6:13
Categories: Chinese Cuisine Tags: anuja, chinese, Cuisine, curry, diet, food, healthy, hetal, indian cooking, Indo-Chinese, noodles, raw, recipe, recipes, showmethecurry, Video, videos
“Dalian Food” Nietsreuef’s photos around Dalian, China (food in dalian china)
Preview of Nietsreuef’s blog at TravelPod. Read the full blog here: http://www.travelpod.com/travel-blog-entries/nietsreuef/china2007/1194258660/tpod.html
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Entry from: Dalian, China
Entry Title: “Dalian Food”
Entry:
“Food of Dalian Except for the white rice and noodles, the food in Dalian would not be familiar in a Chinese restaurant in the US. Dalian food is a combination of Manchurian (Lu), Korean , Japanese, and Russian. The primary ingredients are vegetables and seafood, some meat and poultry, tofu (called doufu here) always cooked in combination with sauce for a formal meal. The most popular vegetables are onions and cabbage (or lettuce – you can’t tell the difference after it’s treated with the sauce). Carrots, potatoes, and yams are also available as is corn-on-the-cob. You can find tomatoes and beans in the markets, but they don’t show up much on the Dalian plate. The Koreans have also made an industry out of kabobs, which are very popular street food. Octopus, squid, chicken heads, feet and all other parts; pork balls (not that kind!), snouts, intestines; sea bass, even goldfish are available on many street corners, cooked off the back of bicycles or on open grilles over wood and charcoal. It’s not that uncommon to see a barbecue taking place in a street pothole. Several streets have become outdoor cafes where the sidewalks are lined with the charcoal grilles, tables and tripod seats about 8″ off the ground. Smoke and grease everywhere. The smell of fried octopus is something awful – like the dumpster in the alley behind the Peacock the morning after Happy Hour. On pleasant evenings, these streets are packed cheek-to-cheek with diners. The chefs prepare tables full of kabobs of every kind plus vegetables and some wrapped combinations. Patrons take a plate and load up whatever they want cooked, hand it to the chef, drink beer while they wait a few minutes for the grille, then squat on the sidewalk and eat dinner. It costs less than $2.00, including the beer. Squid and Octopus are snack foods in Dalian, cooked on the street and eaten on a stick. From one of the guide books: “If you do not like eating seafood, you can get roasted food on the street. In the square in front of the train station, there is a lot of roasting, the taste is good. There is roast squid, a characteristic Dalian treat cooked on an iron grille. But most famous in the whole country, the barbecues usually open at midnight, a good place for a party.” Dalian’s pride is the restaurant seafood. The City has a reputation throughout SE Asia as a food paradise. “Oh, you’re living in Dalian – beautiful city, are you gaining weight?” The Bohai Bay to the West and Yellow sea to the East surround Dalian on 3 sides and the aquatic activity has apparently not been affected by the nuclear submarine facility off shore. Chinese menus are notoriously long, but in Dalian, with the seafood choices, you often get a menu selection – kind of a menu menu. Many restaurants don’t even bother giving out menus since you can select your dinner as part of the evening’s entertainment. A typical dinner might last 3 hours. You are seated quickly, then have drinks and snacks. Then the host comes by and invites you to select dinner. In the larger restaurants that means a wall full of display meat and vegetable dishes, uncooked, and an aquarium worth of live fish, eel, shellfish, frog, and then the non-vertebrae – sea worms and sea cucumbers which I will get to in a minute. You pick your pet, … er, I mean, dinner, then go back for more snacks. That’s usually when they serve you the first volley of slime covered whatever. For me, it wasn’t the airport or the language or the people or the buildings, it was this dining moment that shouted out “YOU’RE IN A FOREIGN COUNTRY!” Of the seafood array, Dalian has elevated 8 categories of sea creatures to honor status, called “The eight treasures of the sea” or “The eighth sea estimate highly” or “eight value …”
Read and see more at: http://www.travelpod.com/travel-blog-entries/nietsreuef/china2007/1194258660/tpod.html
Photos from this trip:
1. “Another sea delicacy”
2. “Bicycle Dessert”
3. “Bicycle Grille”
4. “Budweiser Fake”
5. “Chinese Beer”
6. “Collon Snack”
7. “Crawdads”
8. “Dalian Street Grille”
9. “Fried Octopus”
10. “KFC”
11. “Reeb”
12. “Sea Cucmber Advertisement”
13. “Sea Cucmber Display in Dalian museum”
14. “Sea Cucmber packed in gift box”
15. “Sea Cucumber Advertising photo.”
16. “Sea Cucumber detail”
17. “Sea Cucumber in giaft box 2″
18. “Sea Cucumber restaurant presentation”
19. “Sea Cucumber Store in Dalian”
20. “Sea worms.”
21. “Tea Bags”
22. “Typical alley cookout.”
23. “Typical Fruit Stand”
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Duration : 0:2:35
Categories: Chinese Restaurant Tags: china, china dalian food, da lian food, dalian, dalian china food, dalian delicacy, dalian food, dalian food blog, dalian sea cucumber, food, food in dalian, food in dalian china, food of dalian, liaoning, photography, photos, slideshow, Trip, tripadvisor, tripwow, Vacation
Cooking of Mapo TofuCategories: Chinese Cuisine Tags: chinese, Chinese cuisine, cooking, how to cook chinese food, Kitchen, learn chinese, Mapo Tofu, tofu
Use Great Content To Promote Your Business
Google made big changes to the ways their search results rank, in the name of providing more relevant search results for it’s users, on official google blog it is estimated 11.8% search results will be affected by this update, in plain English, there are about 12% of google search results are considered low quality by google itself. They planned and started the update about one year ago, no wonder I saw a few of my keywords’ ranks dropped like a rock, the good thing is that those keywords promoted by content rich links are not affected, and a few of them even gained a few positions, it’s safe to say that old way of link building is doomed.
What is old way of link building any way? a large percentage of SEO firms will do this, they will get links from any websites which accept adding links, the content on those sites will never be updated, almost all of them are garbage, the name of link spamming sites is justified. The latest google update will definitely downgrade most if not all of these sites, the links on those spamming sites won’t work anymore.
Maybe a few examples will make it clear. In the very beginning, I didn’t know better, I started promote the keyword, steel cargo bar, it was old way of link building all the way, lately I figured that every site in the campaign had way too many links, worst yet, those sites had no content at all. I would give credit where credit is due, this linking strategy worked, finally the rank improved a lot, the honeymoon lasted until google changed it’s mind. Something opposite happened to this keyword, chain pullers, we promoted this keyword with articles and blog posts, with very few plain links, now we have really good ranking for this keyword. Now contextual links win the battle, then what? It all boils down to content, so if you create great content, you will attract readers as well as search engines. You probably think there are already too many blogs out there, it’s not true, there will never be too many good blogs, such as this interesting blog, kids clothing , I didn’t put too much effort into it from start, but I never stopped posting, and to my surprise, I have high ranks for some of competitive keywords. Now you can see, quality article marketing is much better than plain link building. Say you’re building your own bogging network, for instance tie down strap, then it will be easier to do article marketing.
Bottom line is that you should create great content, share the content with people, and put your keywords in the context you’re good to go, this strategy will prevail in short or long term. The virtues, persistence and patience, are essential for your success, you shouldn’t expect things to improve overnight, be it your business or search rankings, let’s keep building and maintaining our blogs until end of the day. When publisinh articles, I prefer ezine, google will index a new article on ezine promptly, popular blogs will get your post indexed as soon as you post it, here I am going to show you an article in article directory or on a blog, such as Car Dolly, good writing, interesting content, indexed and cached, all these points make it perfect for SEO.
Last but not least, we have hot social media now, no one can afford to not using them. One thing you can do for your blogs is to install twitter tools, then go ahead register a new twitter account and app, set up API credentials in your twitter tools option, then make sure every new post will post a new tweet, it’s easy and really useful, it’s a big loss if you don’t use this tool.
Categories: Uncategorized Tags: Car Dolly, steel cargo bar, tie down strap
Dramatic picture of a restaurant boat capsizing in China
The moment a boat capsizes due to heavy rain is caught on camera, although fortunately everyone on board escaped unharmed. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
Duration : 0:0:49
Categories: Chinese Restaurant Tags: boat capsizing, china, Dramatic video, floods, heavy rain, restaurant boat, River, weather
Sichuan Spicy Dan Dan Noodles/四川擔擔面/Chinese Food, Cooking and Recipes
Recipe found at: http://www.cookwithkelly.com/2011/05/sichuan-dan-dan-noodles.html
Authentic Chinese Food, Cooking and Recipes
Music by: Johnny Fiasco – Fallin
Duration : 0:5:33
Categories: Chinese Cuisine Tags: authentic, bbq, beef, bread, Chicken, china, Chinese cooking, Chinese food, chinese recipe, cooking, Cuisine, curry, delicious, Dining, dinner, Easy/, eating, educational, food, foods, fresh, grill, health diet, healthy, home made, homemade, hongkong, how to, Howto, instructions, Kitchen, lunch, meat, organic, pasta, Pizza, pork, potatoes, recipe, recipes, restaurant, rice, salad, sauce, Sichuan, Soup, Spicy, Szechuan, taiwan, tips, tutorial, vegetables, Vegetarian, yummy
Working in a chinese restaurant kitchenCategories: Chinese Restaurant Tags: chinese, cooking, DC, restaurant, WOK
