Most People Waste Their Rotisserie Chicken! 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 bring home a rotisserie chicken, eat the breast the first night, pick at a leg the next day, and by Thursday half of it goes in the trash, bones and all. My name is Mei Lin. I grew up in Guangzhou, and in my grandmother's kitchen one chicken was a whole week of dinners. Here is how one store chicken becomes 10 Chinese dinners, from the first warm plate all the way down to a pot of soup from the bones. In this video: - The 10-minute job on the first night that makes the whole week work - Cold chicken with ginger and green onion oil - Crispy chicken skin, and the jar of chicken fat that makes rice taste like a restaurant - Chicken fat fried rice that gives dry breast meat a second life - Real chow mein, crisp outside and soft in the middle - Chicken and sweet corn soup with silky egg ribbons - Chicken lettuce cups - Chicken with peppers and black bean sauce - Soup from the bones, and ginger chicken noodle soup - Bone broth jook, the last spoonful the chicken has to give - How long cooked chicken keeps, and why every dinner needs less soy sauce No special equipment and no long shopping list. Just one chicken, a frying pan, a pot and a few bottles from the Asian aisle. You do not have to make all 10. Take 10 minutes on the first night, give every part a place to go, then pick one dinner this week. What did your mother or grandmother do with the chicken bones? Did she make soup, or did she have a trick I have never heard of? 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 Most People Are Using Their Air Fryer Wrong! Try These Chinese Tricks https://youtu.be/t52TClYr1h4 10 Cheap Chinese 10-Minute Soups for Seniors Living Alone https://youtu.be/CBzKly2OaF8 Chapters: 0:00 One chicken, 10 Chinese dinners 1:23 10. The first warm plate 2:01 The book I put all of this in 2:19 Taking the chicken apart in 10 minutes 4:18 9. Cold chicken with ginger and green onion oil 6:26 8. Crispy chicken skin and a jar of gold 8:25 7. Chicken fat fried rice 11:04 6. Real chicken chow mein 13:42 5. Chicken and sweet corn soup 16:00 4. Chicken lettuce cups 17:54 3. Chicken with peppers and black bean sauce 19:58 2. Soup from the bones 22:43 1. Bone broth jook, the last spoonful 25:47 All 10 dinners, and where to start