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How do YOU make Gai Lan and Oyster Sauce

I was told to add some oil in the water when you boil gai lan, it will keep the green color when you boil it.
Don't ask me how that works.

A digression, did you know in Hong Kong there's a slang called stiry fry gai lan, it means [accidentally] kick someone in the back of the knee. It's a term primarily for soccer.
 
Oyster sauce,sugar, rice wine, sesame oil and a little chicken broth. Slightly soft boil quickly then pour over Chinese brocolli...
 
I stopped making it after I saw a live caterpillar and some maggots crawling around in it. Tried washing them out but I never saw them again. Too afraid to eat it. Never bought it again.
 
Originally posted by: UncleWai
I was told to add some oil in the water when you boil gai lan, it will keep the green color when you boil it.
Don't ask me how that works.

A digression, did you know in Hong Kong there's a slang called stiry fry gai lan, it means [accidentally] kick someone in the back of the knee. It's a term primarily for soccer.
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Accidentally eh? :laugh:
Only you would know...
 
Originally posted by: gwlam12
I stopped making it after I saw a live caterpillar and some maggots crawling around in it. Tried washing them out but I never saw them again. Too afraid to eat it. Never bought it again.
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LOL. You don't think bugs crawl around on other vegetables?
 
Originally posted by: gwlam12
I stopped making it after I saw a live caterpillar and some maggots crawling around in it. Tried washing them out but I never saw them again. Too afraid to eat it. Never bought it again.
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What do you expect from Chinese veggies.
 
Originally posted by: pikachu656
Originally posted by: ElFenix
wtf is gai lan?
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It's a chinese vegetable.

I usually just boil it, and then add oyster sauce and a little bit of seasme oil to it.
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Green chinese vegetable, you can usually find them at dim sum with oyster sauce....

But omfg IMHO, it tastes like crap without the sauce.
 
It's an acquired taste I guess. I used to hate it when I was young. Now I can eat a pound of boiled gai lan myself without any sauce.
 
Originally posted by: UncleWai
It's an acquired taste I guess. I used to hate it when I was young. Now I can eat a pound of boiled gai lan myself without any sauce.
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it tastes pretty good. goes especially well with more oily food
 
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