Most People Only Use Their Rice Cooker for Rice! Try These Chinese Dinners

🥢 Everything my mother taught me about cooking for one, I wrote down for you. 📘 CHINESE COOKING FOR ONE - get it here: https://cookwithmeilin.com You have a rice cooker on your counter, and it only ever makes rice. The rest of the time it just sits there, while you stand at the stove with three pans and then at the sink washing all of them. My name is Mei Lin. I grew up in Guangzhou, and I have been cooking in America since 1987. In this video I show you 12 Chinese dinners you can cook in your rice cooker with one button, and not one of them is a bowl of rice. In this video: - How your rice cooker really works, and why the water decides how long it cooks - What to do when it clicks to warm too early - Silky steamed egg, and the one trick that stops the little holes - Coca-Cola chicken wings, sticky and shiny - Dumpling noodle soup straight from the freezer - Marbled tea eggs that cook while you sleep - The two-story dinner: soup below, steamed pork on top - Red-braised pork belly that never burns - Garlic steamed eggplant with no frying - Pears steamed with rock sugar - Sweet corn and carrot soup with pork ribs - Hot pot for one, right at the table - Gentle mapo tofu - Glass noodles with garlic shrimp No fancy cooker and no special tools. Every dinner works in a plain one-button rice cooker, and if yours is a small one, just make half. Start tonight with the silky egg: two eggs, warm water, one button. What is the one thing you never knew your rice cooker could do, until today? Tell me in the comments. I read every one. Watch more: Most People Waste Their Rice Cooker! Try These Chinese One-Pot Dinners https://youtu.be/PzBpZy-2G6E 10 Cheap Chinese 10-Minute Soups for Seniors Living Alone https://youtu.be/CBzKly2OaF8 Most People Are Using Their Air Fryer Wrong! Try These Chinese Tricks https://youtu.be/t52TClYr1h4 Chapters: 0:00 12 rice cooker dinners with no rice 1:33 How your rice cooker really works 3:05 12. Silky steamed egg 4:57 The book I put all of this in 5:13 11. Coca-Cola chicken wings 7:15 10. Dumpling noodle soup from the freezer 8:42 9. Marbled tea eggs 10:29 8. The two-story dinner 12:08 7. Red-braised pork belly 14:07 6. Garlic steamed eggplant 15:20 5. Pears steamed with rock sugar 16:46 4. Sweet corn and carrot soup with pork ribs 18:09 3. Hot pot for one 19:49 2. Gentle mapo tofu 21:43 1. Glass noodles with garlic shrimp 24:05 Where to start tonight