10 Cheap Chinese Egg Dinners for Seniors Living Alone That Cost Pennies

Eggs cost less than twenty cents each right now, yet most nights it is still toast, cereal, or nothing at all when you are cooking for one. My name is Mei Lin. I grew up in Guangzhou, where one egg had to feed five of us, and I have been cooking cheap Chinese egg dinners ever since I came to America in 1987. These are the ten I make for myself, with honest prices from the store today. In this video: Tea eggs you make on Sunday and eat all week, about 25 cents each Chinese chives and egg, ready in sixty seconds Tiger skin eggs, fried until they wrinkle, then cooked in a sticky soy sauce Egg fried rice the Guangzhou way, golden in every grain Oyster omelette made with a two-dollar can Hong Kong beef and egg over rice, with the restaurant trick for tender beef Steamed pork patty with a salted duck egg Lard rice with soy sauce and a fried egg, about 40 cents Silky eggs with shrimp, the dish Cantonese cooks are proudest of Egg foo young with brown gravy, and the night I first saw somebody pour gravy on it 0:00 Ten cheap Chinese egg dinners for one 0:13 Tea eggs 4:09 Chinese chives and egg 5:48 Tiger skin eggs 7:48 Egg fried rice the Guangzhou way 9:01 Oyster omelette from a can 10:19 Hong Kong beef and egg over rice 11:41 Steamed pork patty with salted egg 13:32 Lard rice with soy sauce and a fried egg 15:04 Silky eggs with shrimp 16:23 Egg foo young with brown gravy No special equipment and no expensive ingredients. Just a carton of eggs, a few bottles from the pantry, some rice in the freezer, and dinners for one that cost pennies and taste like somebody cared. When there was nothing in the house but eggs, what did your mother make? Tell me in the comments. I want to hear it before it is gone. I put out a new video every day. Subscribe so you do not miss one. Watch more: Most People Are Using Their Rice Cooker Wrong! Try These Chinese Tricks https://youtu.be/frzhZhkbP3I Most People Are Using Their Air Fryer Wrong! Try These Chinese Tricks https://youtu.be/t52TClYr1h4 Most People Are Cooking Rice Wrong! Try These Chinese Tricks for Perfect Rice Every Time https://youtu.be/Oi0w468zF8U