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50 Chinese restaurant recipes to make even better at home

Put down the photocopied menu, close the delivery app and make your usual order yourself with these doable authentic-ish Aussie-Chinese recipes from Adam Liaw, Neil Perry and Kylie Kwong.

48 recipes
Adam Liaw's chicken with cashew nuts.
EASY

Chicken, cashew nut and capsicum stir-fry recipe

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Kylie Kwong's everyday fried rice.
EASY

Kylie Kwong's everyday fried rice recipe

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Kylie Kwong
Chow mein.
EASY

Chow mein

  • < 30 mins
Asian greens.

Adam Liaw on how to cook greens like a Chinese restaurant

Beef, black bean and rice noodles with oyster sauce.

Beef, black bean and oyster sauce stir-fry

  • < 30 mins
  • Neil Perry
Updated old-school Chinese restaurant favourite: Billy Kee pork.

Billy Kee pork

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Adam Liaw
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Kung pao chicken.
EASY

Kung pao chicken

  • < 30 mins
  • Neil Perry
Prawn toast

Prawn toast

  • < 30 mins
Neil Perry's salt and pepper squid.
EASY

Salt and pepper squid

  • < 30 mins
  • Neil Perry
Sweet and sour pork

Sweet and sour pork

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Neil Perry
Stuffed eggplant with black bean sauce.

Stuffed eggplant with black bean sauce

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
Because tofu has no pronounced flavour of its own, it can take pungent and strong dressings.

Deep-fried silken tofu with black bean and chilli

  • Kylie Kwong
Melissa Leong's mapo tofu.

Cheat's mapo tofu

  • < 30 mins
  • Melissa Leong
Dumplings in chilli oil

Dumplings in chilli oil

  • < 30 mins
  • Caroline Velik
Neil Perry's fried rice.
EASY

Neil Perry's special fried rice

  • < 30 mins
  • Neil Perry
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Begin a banquet with a bowl of chicken and corn soup.

Chinese chicken and corn soup recipe

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
Honey chicken with pickled ginger.
EASY

Chicken and pickled ginger in honey sauce recipe

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Neil Perry
Good Food. 11 April 2014. Shots for Adams good food recipes. Photo: William Meppem.
EASY

Lemon chicken

  • < 30 mins
Vegetarian-friendly fried rice with sesame.
EASY

Vegetarian special fried rice

  • < 30 mins
  • Kylie Kwong
Twice-cooked sticky duck with charred Asian greens.

Twice cooked sticky duck

  • 2 hrs +
  • Darren Robertson and Mark LaBrooy
Neil Perry's sticky barbecued pork.
EASY

Sweet barbecued pork recipe

  • 2 hrs +
  • Neil Perry
American-Chinese orange chicken.

Adam Liaw's American-Chinese orange chicken

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Adam Liaw
Fried ice-cream with caramel sauce.

Fried ice-cream recipe

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Old-school redux: Banana fritters with cinnamon chocolate sauce.

Banana fritters with cinnamon chocolate sauce

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Adam Liaw
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Tea eggs and sang choy bao.

Sang choy bao lettuce cups

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Neil Perry
Kylie Kwong's crispy king prawns with sweet and salty garlic sauce.
EASY

Crispy king prawns with sweet and salty garlic sauce recipe

  • < 30 mins
  • Kylie Kwong
Stir-fried chicken and Chinese cabbage in chilli bean sauce.

Stir-fried chicken and Chinese cabbage in chilli bean sauce

  • < 30 mins
  • Neil Perry
Neil Perry's Chilli chicken with chestnuts, black funghi and celery.

Chilli chicken with Chinese chestnuts and celery

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Neil Perry
Neil Perry's stir-fried grass-fed beef fillet with cumin and red chillies.

Stir-fried beef with cumin and red chillies

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Neil Perry
A classic Chinese side dish.
EASY

Bok choy with garlic sauce recipe

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Adam Liaw's prawn omelette.

Prawn egg foo yung (prawn omelette) recipe

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Kylie Kwong's fried rice with plump king prawns.
EASY

Kylie Kwong's fried rice with king prawns

  • < 30 mins
  • Kylie Kwong
Spinach and dried shrimp wontons.

Spinach and dried shrimp wontons

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Adam Liaw
Kylie Kwong's stir-fried eggplant with red chillies and ginger.
EASY

Kylie Kwong's stir-fried eggplant with chilli and ginger

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Kylie Kwong
pork belly

Chinese pork belly with Sichuan cucumber salad

  • 2 hrs +
  • Kate Gibbs
Master stock chicken with tea eggs.

Chinese chicken recipe with tea eggs

  • 2 hrs +
  • Neil Perry
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