7/24/2023 0 Comments Abacus chinese restaurant lansdale![]() “We use soybean oil exclusively for cooking. “Chinese families generally won’t buy a house if it doesn’t have a gas stove (which heats faster and reaches higher cooking temperatures than an electric stove). A cleaver with one rounded edge is difficult to get, but it is preferred by old-time chefs like my father (Charlie) for cutting meats as well as vegetables.” (One of the students interrupted with, “Couldn’t we just take Charlie home?”)Ĭontinued Ruby, “You’ll also need a hand-held drainer for straining the fat off meat after stir-frying it. “If you’re going to do a lot of Chinese cookery, you should have a Chinese cleaver. ![]() One that is heavy, but not so heavy you can’t lift it with one hand.” She doesn’t recommend electric woks because she said the food takes much longer to cook. She recommended the equipment needed for Chinese cookery at home. Peking duck is just one Chinese specialty. And, finally, a Chinese restaurant doesn’t have to have Peking duck to be judged a good restaurant. “The dishes shouldn’t have a gummy, gelatin-like consistency either that comes when an inexperienced cook uses too much cornstarch. Vegetables are added to the stir-fried meat at the last minute. We also boil our vegetables, rather than stir-frying them in oil, because they would soak up extra oil. Although the meat cooks in oil, the excess oil is drained off immediately. Ruby does most of the talking during the cooking classes, first explaining misconceptions about Chinese food. ![]() “We’ll simply cook up new ones,” she said. She doesn’t worry about sharing the recipes for the restaurant’s best-selling dishes. They’ll have the confidence in us that will make them more willing to try different foods we make,” said Ruby Chen. “We teach the classes so that our customers will be more educated about Chinese food. The non-traditional setting is as unusual as the class style. When that restaurant became too busy, the Chens moved the cooking sessions - some 15 a year - to Yantze.Īs students learn by doing, water trickles down the sides of an ornate water fountain directly behind the work table set up in the aisle of the intimate restaurant. Then, they began offering courses at Abacus. The Chens began offering cooking classes in private homes and for Lansdale’s community service organizations five or six years ago. And they will eat the fruits of their labor - the two main courses prepared during the session. Before the cooking class ends, they will see an in-the-kitchen demonstration of how the raw ingredients are cooked in huge, restaurant-sized woks ringed by flames.
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