Product Details

• Actors: Winnie Chui
• Directors: Mike Gidwani
• Producers: MMKT Agency Corp
• Format: Color, NTSC, Full Screen
• Region: All Regions
• Number of discs: 1
• Studio: MMKT Agency, Corp
• Run Time: 70 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• ASIN: B000UWH1WS
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #95,624 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

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 cooking 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! With this DVD, you will learn the Chinese take-out cooking style; how to prepare your meats and vegetables ingredients; how to make three of the most popular sauces, how to combine ingredients and sauces to make nearly half of the courses on the take-out menus 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.

Customer Reviews

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Really Good Chinese Take-out Cooking Instruction - Recommended!, January 19, 2009

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C. F. Hill "CFH" (Blue Ridge Summit, PA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Chinese Take-out Main Course Cooking DVD (DVD)

We bought "Chinese Take-out Main Course 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 tend to order when we go get Chinese Take-out.

The video spends most of the first hour covering the preparation (cutting and precooking) of meats, vegetables, and, most importantly, the types of sauces. The video shows every cut, not fast forward or cut away. This can get a little tedious when she is pealing and cutting a dozen or so shrimp, but it isn't too bad.

The last 15 minutes is the actual cooking of the main dishes, and they do come together very quickly!

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!