(OT Food) Help! I need a Stir Fry!
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BiggusGeekus@Work
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Maldur said:
It's as American as spiniach burritos and tofu turkey!
Basically, you have a bowl, go along a buffet of various veggies and meats, you take what you want and give your bowl of stuff to the chef guy who cooks it in about a minute or so. You walk back to your table with piping hot and very fresh food. There's one accross the street from me, but I don't go there because there's an all-you-can-eat sushi place next to it.
Sushi ownz.
PowerWordDumb
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Mongolian barbeque is a style of cooking. It manifests itself in a few different restaurant chains, like the "Mongolian Grill" in canada (maybe elsewhere too, but I've mainly experienced them in southern ontario).
Mongolian grilling is essentially barbeque in that it's cooking over an open flame, but using *Huge* flat cast-iron grills, supposedly based upon the historic mongolian tradition of cooking on their shields over an open fire.
The food itself is essentially do-it-yourself stirfry. Strips of meat (many different kinds to choose from) which historically would have been carved off of the catch-of-the-day with the warriors' swords, a good selection of vegetables to round it out, various flavored oils to prevent sticking, and many many types of sauce to add, from sweet to fiery, topped off with your choice of herbs and seasonings.
The dining experience goes roughly like this:
You pick up an empty bowl from the stack and head to the food line. You select your meat(s) (steak, chicken, turkey, pork, lamb, sausage, fish, calamari, shrimp, etc) - as much as yo like. You pick your favorite veggies, again, as much as you like. You pour on at least one ladle of oil (sesame, olive, garlic, etc), and two ladles of sauce (everything imaginable from sweet&sour to mongolian fire sauce - HOT HOT HOT, to caribbean jerk, to italian herb wine & tomato sauces), and then season it how you like. You take your bowl to the grill, where the chefs take it from you and plop it down on the vast iron grill, smacking it around with long sticks to break up the meat and ensure everything is cooked right. Once that's done, they give it back to you in a new bowl, and you go back to your table where you find flour tortillas and steamed rice. You can then eat your meal as a stirfry with rice, or roll it up in a toritilla. Either way it's tasty.
If you have such a place near you, I encourage you to try it. If the food's no good, you have only yourself to blame! *lol* Actually, I know some people who find this intimidating, as they can't think on the spot as to what might go good together. While I don't empathise at all (how can you not know what you like?), they do try to help you out by posting many "recipes" that the not-so-creative can try with a reasonable chance of success.
Mongolian grilling is essentially barbeque in that it's cooking over an open flame, but using *Huge* flat cast-iron grills, supposedly based upon the historic mongolian tradition of cooking on their shields over an open fire.
The food itself is essentially do-it-yourself stirfry. Strips of meat (many different kinds to choose from) which historically would have been carved off of the catch-of-the-day with the warriors' swords, a good selection of vegetables to round it out, various flavored oils to prevent sticking, and many many types of sauce to add, from sweet to fiery, topped off with your choice of herbs and seasonings.
The dining experience goes roughly like this:
You pick up an empty bowl from the stack and head to the food line. You select your meat(s) (steak, chicken, turkey, pork, lamb, sausage, fish, calamari, shrimp, etc) - as much as yo like. You pick your favorite veggies, again, as much as you like. You pour on at least one ladle of oil (sesame, olive, garlic, etc), and two ladles of sauce (everything imaginable from sweet&sour to mongolian fire sauce - HOT HOT HOT, to caribbean jerk, to italian herb wine & tomato sauces), and then season it how you like. You take your bowl to the grill, where the chefs take it from you and plop it down on the vast iron grill, smacking it around with long sticks to break up the meat and ensure everything is cooked right. Once that's done, they give it back to you in a new bowl, and you go back to your table where you find flour tortillas and steamed rice. You can then eat your meal as a stirfry with rice, or roll it up in a toritilla. Either way it's tasty.
If you have such a place near you, I encourage you to try it. If the food's no good, you have only yourself to blame! *lol* Actually, I know some people who find this intimidating, as they can't think on the spot as to what might go good together. While I don't empathise at all (how can you not know what you like?), they do try to help you out by posting many "recipes" that the not-so-creative can try with a reasonable chance of success.
Michael Dean
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All of those recipes look great! I would only add one thing:
1. Buy 2 or 3 packs of ramen noodles (I prefer chicken flavor) and prepare them as directed on the package.
2. Then, put about a quarter inch of canola oil in the bottom of a large frying pan (just enough to cover the bottom, really), turn up to medium heat.
3. Drain noodles of all water in a colander.
4. Place in pan and spread them out to fill the entire frying pan like a giant pancake. I usually cook one package of noodles at a time so they aren't too thick in the frying pan.
5. Cook til slightly crispy, then take a couple of spatulas and flip them over in one big mass. Cook on other side until crispy.
6. Place finished noodles on a large serving dish and pile your stir fry veggies/meat/etc. on top and enjoy!
1. Buy 2 or 3 packs of ramen noodles (I prefer chicken flavor) and prepare them as directed on the package.
2. Then, put about a quarter inch of canola oil in the bottom of a large frying pan (just enough to cover the bottom, really), turn up to medium heat.
3. Drain noodles of all water in a colander.
4. Place in pan and spread them out to fill the entire frying pan like a giant pancake. I usually cook one package of noodles at a time so they aren't too thick in the frying pan.
5. Cook til slightly crispy, then take a couple of spatulas and flip them over in one big mass. Cook on other side until crispy.
6. Place finished noodles on a large serving dish and pile your stir fry veggies/meat/etc. on top and enjoy!
My favorite is something alittle spicier.
Go to your local Safeway(this is the only chain that I know of that carries it). The brand is Taste of Thai. Get the packet of peanut sauce and get the correct coconut milk to make the sauce.
Then you pick any mix of vegatables and chicken you want, stir fry them up. Put them on a bed of rice or noodles. I personally think that rice is better, and pour a generous amount of sauce on top.
It is very good.
Go to your local Safeway(this is the only chain that I know of that carries it). The brand is Taste of Thai. Get the packet of peanut sauce and get the correct coconut milk to make the sauce.
Then you pick any mix of vegatables and chicken you want, stir fry them up. Put them on a bed of rice or noodles. I personally think that rice is better, and pour a generous amount of sauce on top.
It is very good.
Shard O'Glase
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check out http://eat.epicurious.com/
I tried this recipe and liked it vegetable stir fry
As a general rule though I just throw in these 3 vegies as a base.
sweet/snap peas
water chestnuts
and SP? asparagus
I add some garlic, rice wine, sesame oil, salt.
I grow from there adding other vegies or some chicken(add chicken broth as well), and many times peanut butter, because it makes everything better.
I tried this recipe and liked it vegetable stir fry
As a general rule though I just throw in these 3 vegies as a base.
sweet/snap peas
water chestnuts
and SP? asparagus
I add some garlic, rice wine, sesame oil, salt.
I grow from there adding other vegies or some chicken(add chicken broth as well), and many times peanut butter, because it makes everything better.
Shard O'Glase
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BiggusGeekus@Work said:
please, mongolian BBQ spanks sushi up and down the street, and not in a good way.
By the by mongolian BBQ is universally all you can eat.
Though I still say korean food owns all.
Guillaume
Julie and I miss her
KitanaVorr
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Re: Re: Hmmmm....
Real Vietnamese food rules all!
Its all fresh ingredients and wonderful spices. Its not greasy at all!
and btw...
Don't forget that most of the food you eat is 90% of the time are Westernized versions of real ethnic food unless you walk into a restaurant and the menu is not in English and the other patrons actually look like they can cook the food at home.
Uzumaki said:
Real Vietnamese food rules all!
Its all fresh ingredients and wonderful spices. Its not greasy at all!
and btw...
Don't forget that most of the food you eat is 90% of the time are Westernized versions of real ethnic food unless you walk into a restaurant and the menu is not in English and the other patrons actually look like they can cook the food at home.
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