10 Cheap Chinese One-Pan Dinners for Seniors Living Alone

🥢 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 order takeout because you are too tired to cook, and the bag comes with enough rice for a family of four, eighteen dollars on the bill, and so much salt you drink water all night. My name is Mei Lin. I grew up in Guangzhou, in the south of China, and I have been cooking in America since 1987. A Chinese kitchen was built on one pan and a hot fire, and one pan can make dinner for one person in about ten minutes, with nothing left over and almost nothing to wash. In this video: - Three rules for cooking in one pan: the right pan size for one person, cooking in one layer, and measuring with your hand - Egg fried rice for about 70 cents, and the soy sauce trick restaurants use - Chicken chow mein with the noodles cooked in the same pan - Garlic shrimp with snow peas, ready in six minutes - Sweet and sour chicken with no pot of oil - Egg foo young with a smooth brown gravy - Cashew chicken, and how to make a sauce shine without turning it to glue - Moo shu pork with a coleslaw shortcut and soft tortillas - Orange chicken made with a real orange - Gentle kung pao chicken that does not burn your mouth - Beef and broccoli, and the pinch of baking soda that makes cheap beef tender - Four ways a one-pan dinner goes wrong, and how to fix every one Every recipe here is sized for one person and costs about two or three dollars, with low-salt soy sauce and a taste before you add more. No wok, no deep fryer, no pot of boiling water. Just one frying pan and ten minutes. What do you always order from the Chinese restaurant? Tell me in the comments, and I will tell you how to make it in one pan. I read every single one. Watch more: 10 Cheap Chinese 10-Minute Soups for Seniors Living Alone https://youtu.be/CBzKly2OaF8 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 0:00 Ten takeout dinners in one pan 1:33 Three rules for the pan 2:37 #10 Egg fried rice 4:31 The book I put all of this in 4:48 #9 Chicken chow mein 7:21 #8 Garlic shrimp with snow peas 9:02 #7 Sweet and sour chicken 11:08 #6 Egg foo young 12:41 #5 Cashew chicken 15:05 #4 Moo shu pork 16:38 #3 Orange chicken 18:26 #2 Gentle kung pao chicken 20:04 #1 Beef and broccoli 23:03 Four ways a one-pan dinner goes wrong 23:49 Is MSG safe? 24:07 Freezer and cleanup habits 24:34 Where to start tonight