Real Chinese home cooking, minus everything that scares you off.
Chinese food so simple
it feels like cheating.
Every recipe on this site follows one promise: 6 ingredients max · 1 pot · 30 minutes · no wok skills. These are the dishes Chinese families actually cook on weeknights — including the famous Chaoshan soup that's literally "a radish and a chunk of pork, forgotten for half an hour."
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10-Minute Chinese recipes
Cold dishes, quick soups and no-cook noodles — faster than delivery, cheaper than takeout.
10 recipes →20-Minute Chinese recipes
One-pan stir-fries and steamed dishes that taste like you tried much harder than you did.
10 recipes →30-Minute Chinese recipes
Soups that simmer themselves and one-pot braises — the dishes Chinese families actually make on weeknights.
10 recipes →Start with these
Chaoshan Daikon & Pork Soup (Chao Shan Qing Tang)
The soup this whole site was built around: a whole chunk of pork and a daikon, half an hour, then celery and salt. That is the recipe.
5 ingredients · 3 steps →Tomato & Egg Stir-Fry (Xi Hong Shi Chao Ji Dan)
The undisputed national dish of Chinese home cooking — the one dish everyone's mother made.
4 ingredients · 3 steps →Silky Steamed Egg Custard (Zheng Shui Dan)
China's answer to soft scrambled eggs: three eggs steamed into custard so smooth it jiggles.
5 ingredients · 3 steps →Why is Chinese home food secretly so simple?
Restaurant Chinese food needs woks at 50,000 BTU, a dozen aromatics, and fifteen years of knife work. Home Chinese food is a different cuisine. It runs on a handful of bottled sauces, one pot, and techniques designed for tired people: steam it, poach it, throw it in broth, pour hot oil over something raw.
That's the food this site documents — the clear soups of Chaoshan, the jiggly steamed eggs of Guangdong, the sizzling oil-poured noodles of Xi'an. Every one adapted to what you can buy at Kroger or Costco, with gram measurements and honest swaps.
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