Product Description

Chinese take-out has become a popular staple in American Dining. Now you can find out how to make some take-out favorites in your own kitchen. The dishes are simple and easy to follow! Unlike the regular cooking video which rush through each dish demonstration, this video has no time limits, you can see the end result and detail of each dish. There is no rush-rush, chop-chop, no lengthly instruction, no time-lapse, no talk-show host, just simple straight forward step-by-step instruction - real time cooking demonstration. You can learn at your own pace. If you have trouble following, just pause and rewind, it's that simple! Through this video, you learn how to make five popular specialty dishes from Chinese take-out menus, real time demonstration from preparing the ingredients to cooking the dishes; the secrets that make cooking Chinese food fast and easy; the common ingredients that are explicit to Chinese take-out cooking and many more. Hosted by Sifu Chui, a Hong Kong native, shares her passion to cooking home-style Chinatown dishes. In this DVD, she researches some popular take-out restaurants and their specialty dishes, then show you how to recreate them in your own kitchen.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #166260 in DVD
• Brand: Chopstick Bowl
• Model: CT6269S
• Published on: 2007
• Formats: Color, Full Screen
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 75 minutes

Features

• Five popular specialty dishes from Chinese take-out menus
• Real time demonstration from preparing the ingredients to cooking the dish
• The secrets that make cooking Chinese food fast and easy
• Common ingredients that are explicit to Chinese take-out cooking

Customer Reviews

Good Chinese Take-out Instructional DVD - Recommended
We bought "Chinese Take-out Specialty Dishes Cooking" as part of the Chinese Take-out Cooking DVD Box Set. This video does exactly what we hoped it would do, show us how to make the dishes we like to order when we go get Chinese Take-out.

We enjoyed the "Egg Foo Young" section the most on this video. This is one of our favorite take-out dishes and is very close to how our local Chinese restaurant makes it.

The video shows every cut, not fast forward or cut away. This can get a little tedious when she is pealing and cutting a 10 or so shrimp, but it isn't too bad. Compared to the Chinese Take-out Main Course Cooking DVD, this disc has a lot of "narrative" and voice over direction.

Some things to note:

* The ingredient list is very quickly shown at start of section, so it is best to pause and write them down because they are not always identified as the dish is being prepared.

* They also point you to their web site for spice and ingredient info. I should note that there is a lot of good information and tips on the site.

* They reference other videos in the series for more detailed instructions

* The video was shot without benefit of a tripod, so it can be a little jumpy and a little distracting

* The background music is somewhat repetitive and also a little distracting

This is a very good video and it does exactly what it advertises, teach you how to quickly make popular Take-out dishes.

Highly recommended!