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I totally understand now how to cook western style Chinese food after I watched “Take Home Chef”. Every time when I had Chinese food in overseas, I always found the taste and style are very different from our food in Hong Kong and China. The chefs of those overseas Chinese restaurants are also Chinese, so I don’t think there is any reason related to it. It’s definitely related to the way they cook. They cook in western ways that suitable for taste of westerners.

The Aussi chef of Take Home Chef showed how to cook Chinese barbecue porks on his show. The way he did it, which is totally different from our traditional way. We have the pork fired in the big oven, but he did it with a Chinese wok. Basically, he fried it with Cantonese style barbecue sauce. No wonder when I saw the Chinese barbecue pork in Chinese restaurants overseas that looks like stir fry sliced pork.

I like watching this programme as the chef spots strangers in the supermarket, and cooks them food at their homes. It may not be real, but they act so natural. It’s very entertaining. Western chef teaches how to cook Chinese food, which is the most interesting part of the show. He even showed how to make fortune cookie. This is funny enough. We all know that fortune cookies only appear in Chinese restaurants overseas regardless in the U.K., the U.S., N.Z., France and even Hungary. Perhaps, chefs of Hong Kong don’t even know how to make those cookies. This is such fabulous idea of the show. I love it!

Well, the photo is not clear enough to show what the western Chinese barbecue pork looks like, but I guess Chinese can tell.