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"This has a great garlic flavor and tastes delicious with or without the heaters!"

Ingredients: cornstarch, dry sherry, garlic...

"Easy peasy Chinese cooking, when you just don't have time, but really have the taste for it! All on the table in 20 minutes! :)"

Ingredients: hot pepper oil, garlic...

"For when you want to take a walk on the wild side. Adjust the heat to your own taste."

Ingredients: cornstarch, hot bean paste...

"This was the other main dish at my Chinese New Year's party. Several guests declined a second chopstick load and requested large amounts of water, others went back for thirds. Depends on how much you treasure the continued existence of your taste buds...and don't be scared by the long ingredients list, they're all simple and easy.
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Ingredients: cider vinegar, seitan...

"Entered for safe-keeping, from Weight Watchers Magazine September-October 2008. 3 "thingies" per serving. Original recipe called for 10-oz package of fresh sugar snap peas and baby carrots. Serve with "Quick Mushroom Barley Pilaf WW" for 2 "thingies" per serving."

Ingredients: cornstarch, boneless sirloin steaks...

"A common appetizer in the Hunan province of China, smacked cucumbers got their name because of the way you whack the cucumbers with the flat of a cleaver blade to encourage them to absorb the flavors of the dressing. From the Revolutionary Chinese Cookbook."

Ingredients: chili oil, cucumbers, garlic...

"The unusual name of this traditional dish refers to the crunchy sound the salted and barely cooked radish slivers make when you bite them. From the Revolutionary Chinese Cookbook,this is easy to make, and pretty with the white, red and green colors."

Ingredients: cornstarch, daikon radishes...

"Had way too much of roast beef one time, and whipped this salad up to make up for the amount of meat I had consumed, and the lack of vegetables in a diet. It worked so well, I have started making extra roast beef, just so that I could have heaps of leftovers for this wonderful salad."

Ingredients: garlic, mint leaves...

"This is an incredibly easy, tasty and inexpensive dish. The name comes from the ground pork looking like ants mixed in with the vermicelli which looks like tree branches."

Ingredients: vermicelli, dark soy sauce...

"This recipe is from one of the great Hunanese chefs, Shi Yinxiang, who used to cook for Chairman Mao whenever he returned to his home province."

Ingredients: pepper, hot pepper oil...

"Crispy tofu in a sweet, blazing hot sauce. In my take on this dish, it gets its tang from tamarind and its heat from Thai dragon peppers. This recipe makes a little extra sauce because it's so good, you'll want to put it on everything."

Ingredients: cornstarch, tamarind paste...

"Insipid eggplant dishes are now a thing of the past! It doesn't look very pretty but the taste more than makes up for it. The most important flavoring ingredient is the chili bean paste so choose a good one that is made with fermented fava beans or a combination with fermented soy beans. The dried shrimp add a lot of flavor but feel free to omit..."

Ingredients: chili bean sauce, Chinese eggplants...

"This recipe is from a local Chinese restaurant near my hometown."

Ingredients: cornstarch, sherry wine vinegar...