cooking vocabulary

[owen]

I searched the site for a thread containing a list of cooking/recipe vocabulary but couldn't find one.

Often when i look at recipes in chinese there is some word that i can't find in any dictionary. One recent example was 老／生抽 (lao3/sheng1 chou3) which apparently is just another word (or possibly style of) for 酱油 (jiang1 you2).

There are often words i can guess at but aren't completely sure. 略炒 (lue4chao3) for example.

Anyways if there is already a thread like this, i apologize. If not, i guess this is it.

[liuzhou]

http://hua.umf.maine.edu/Chinese/topics/menu_term/douzhong.html

http://www.cantonese.ca/food.php

I do have some more (and better) on my work computer but I'm on vacation. Will post when I go back.

[imron]

老／生抽 (lao3/sheng1 chou3

This should be chōu. These refer to the different kinds of soya sauce available. 生抽 is light soya sauce and is used more to add flavour to the dish. 老抽 is used more for adjusting the colour of the dish e.g. in 红烧肉 etc. Edited August 22, 2008 at 12:02 PM by imron

[davidj]

One of the advertisers (Chinese Hour) seems to have quite a large list of menu items, together with photographs.

[liuzhou]

http://www.asiafood.org/index.cfm

[leeyah]

Check these out:

http://www.foodmate.net/english/speciality/index.html

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