Man I hate walking though china town, especially when I am fasting. The wafting aromas of stir fries, bbq’s, sauté’s, and everything else that Chinese cooking is all about drives a man crazy. The result was a very hungry man who had to wait till 7 pm to eat.
I had to make a decision quick, so in all logical though I reasoned out “… if I cannot eat Chinese now I’ll just go home, make some Chinese and eat later …” Why didn’t I think of just buying take out I have no idea. Probably because the smell of the food would drive me crazy, so I started shopping for everything I would need to make Chinese at home. The easiest recipe I could think of was shrimp and broccoli.
That’s easy enough. I need to buy shrimp and some broccoli and hope I have everything else at home. I walked into the nearest fishmarket, and boy do they remind me of the fishmarkets back home, except that all these people spoke was chinese. Plus there were a lot of wierd looking fish that well, lets just say looked a bit fishey. Picked up some shrimp, crossed over to the grocery store and picked up some broccoli and was ready to go home. I’ve never baught broccoli before so I was hopeing I had selected well. Once I got home, headed straight to my best friend. GOOGLE! How did we ever survive without it. A quick search brought up hundreds of variations of the recipe. A random pick and I was reading a pretty easy “how to” for authentic Chinese shrimp and broccoli.
45 minutes spent cleaning the shrimp + 3 minutes of shopping onions + 10 minutes of washing and cleaning the broccoli + all the other additions and I was all ready to start making the actual dish.
Bada-bing bada bung, voila, Authentic Chinese Shrimp and Broccoli is now ready for eating.
This is not an image of the actual dish but one that I found online. Mine looked simialr though.
You know what? It’s actually really easy to make, and came out really well. In fact and this is no big headedness on my part but it was better than a lot of shrimp and broccoli that I’ve eaten at most fast food Chinese restaurants that are scattered all over the city. Its also extremely healty, as it has very little oil in it, and if you eat it with brown/red rice your good to go.
I think I will be making homemade authentic Chinese a lot more often…
looks good.. can i try?
sure
Dinner is usually served at 7.00 pm
Ramazan mubarak ho!
awesome.. wats ur address?
@ indyana, Thank You.
@savi3, I’m in new york… drop in anytime
ah new york.. yes must come that way again.. will def look u up
sure.. where are you located?
England
yes, so drop in.. i believe its only a few hours away
the world has become such a small place :-S
just a few years ago it would take weeks to get from NY to London.
I’ve been trying to find the recipe. Is there a name to it, or is it just, Shrimp and Broccoli? lol. If you got the recipe page, please share it. I live in England too, and I can’t seem to find this dish at the chinese restaurants. This is one of my fave dishes when I go to NYC.