''Chinese Food in Minutes'' is a UK-based series, based upon

Ching He Huang Ching-He Huang (; (born 8 April 1978), often known in English-language merely as Ching, is a Taiwanese-born food writer and TV chef. She has appeared in a variety of television cooking programmes, and is the author of nine best-selling cook ...

's cookbook of the same name, published by HarperCollins in September 2009.

Overview

Observed by two people who are completely new to preparing Chinese meals ("wok virgins"), Ching in every episode makes "two versions of authentic Chinese dishes and takeaway classics" as well as another dish. She gives the audience advice about various Chinese cuisine themes during every episode. According to ''

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'', "viewers who can't even boil an egg need not worry, for the show is aimed at kitchen novices whose idea of cooking a meal revolves around reheating past night’s leftover takeaway in the microwave". The ''

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''s Jane Simon said of the show, "It's a mix of the easy-to-follow teaching method of Delia Smith mashed up with Jamie Oliver’s habit of cooking for pals." The '' Western Mail'' said of the two neophytes who join her in each show, "she soon transforms them from dumpling dunces to Szechuan supremos". Dishes she cooked on the show include Sichuan

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, mushroom

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, chicken and black bean stir fry, garlic chilli beef, fried sweet chilli chicken, and

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ribs.

Broadcasts

''Chinese Food in Minutes'' is a 13-part peak time cooking television series commissioned and shown by Five and funded by

Sharwood's Sharwood's is a British food company, which specialises in Asian food, established in 1889 and acquired by RHM in 1963, which was then merged into Premier Foods in March 2007. Company products The company produces Indian, Chinese and South Eas ...

, first aired on 9 February 2010. Every episode was 30 minutes long and had an audience of around one million. The first episode served up 1 million viewers and a 4% share during a segment that typically had 400,000 watchers. The series Chinese Food in was based on Huang's title of the same name, published by HarperCollins in September 2009.

Publications

A recipe book accompanies the TV series. *Ching's Chinese Food in Minutes (HarperCollins, 2009)

References

External links

* {{IMDb title, id=1601976, title=Chinese Food in Minutes
''Chinese Food in Minutes''
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