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Cuisine

Chinese Sunday dinners

The plans here are mostly home cooking rather than banquet food — the fast, wok-driven dishes a family actually eats, plus the slower red-braises that reward an afternoon. The technique that matters most is heat management: a domestic burner cannot do what a restaurant wok range does, so these recipes cook in batches rather than pretending otherwise.

7 plans in the Sunday Gallery.

What Chinese plans look like

Most common mains

  • chicken5
  • beef2

How they're cooked

  • Stir-fried6
  • Pan-seared1

The plans

By cooking method

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