Intro -- Cover -- Title -- Dedication -- Preface -- Contents -- Introduction -- Cooking, our love language, by Céline Chung -- The Bao family chefs -- Ingredients & -- Utensils -- Condiments, thick sauces & -- pastes -- Liquid condiments -- Spices -- Staple ingredients -- Starches, flours & -- sugars -- Noodles & -- rice -- Fresh produce -- Basic utensils -- Breakfast -- Congee with century egg -- Youtiao -- Fried egg on rice -- Mantou with jam -- Pineapple bun -- Starters -- Marinated spicy eggplant -- Marinated cucumbers -- Chinese spring onion pancakes -- Pumpkin fries with -- Drunken chicken wings -- Oyster omelette -- Lotus root chips -- Zongzi -- Spicy chicken salad -- Pork rind salad -- Tofu and century egg -- Bao & -- Dim Sum -- History of bao and dim sum -- Step-by-step baozi -- Vegetarian baozi -- Pork baozi -- Charsiu bao -- Sheng jian bao -- Wrapping siu mai -- Siu mai -- Har gow -- Step-by-step jiaozi -- Jiaozi -- Pork and cabbage dumplings -- Turnip cake -- Chinese spring rolls -- Steamed pork ribs with garlic and black beans -- Steamed sponge cake ma lai gao -- Soups & -- Noodles -- Wonton soup -- Taiwanese beef noodle soup -- Stewed chicken with shiitake mushrooms -- Pork and corn soup -- Tomato and egg soup -- Winter melon soup -- Hot-and-sour soup -- Mains -- Tomato scrambled egg -- Walnut prawns -- Garlic squid -- Hongshao squid -- Wok-fried clams -- Wok-fried mussels -- How to use chinese chopsticks correctly -- Steamed fish -- Sweet-and-sour fish -- Wonton folding -- Fried prawn wontons -- Chilli oil wontons -- Peking duck -- How to eat peking duck -- Hainanese chicken rice -- Salt-and-pepper chicken -- Kung pao chicken -- Twice-cooked hunan pork -- Hongshao braised pork -- Lion's head stewed meatballs -- Cumin beef -- Hongshao eggplant -- Bok choy and shiitake mushroom stir-fry -- Sichuan green beans.

Bean sprouts with garlic chives -- Stir-fried water spinach -- Stir-fried chinese broccoli -- Stir-fried shredded potato tu dou si -- Stir-fried cabbage -- Scrambled eggs with garlic chives -- Mapo tofu -- Rice & -- Noodles -- Cantonese fried rice -- Stir-fried vegetarian noodles -- Stir-fried rice noodles with beef ho fun -- Shanghai noodles with spring onion -- Zhajiang noodles -- Dan dan noodles -- Cold noodles with sesame -- Desserts -- Black sesame bao -- Red bean bao -- Flowing sand bao -- Egg tarts -- Tangyuan -- Hong kong french toast -- Fried milk -- Sesame balls with mung beans and coconut -- Apple fritters with caramel -- Tea culture -- Index -- Acknowledgements -- Copyright.