Jianan's Blog: Chinese Food 1: scrambled egg with tomato

One of the most important reasons I love China and proud of being a Chinese is because of Chinese food. And I think the thing that suffers me the most when I am studying abroad in this country is about eating. I'm not saying the American food is bad, it is good and healthy but as a person born and grow in China, I just cannot get used to the food here. And personally, I think most of Chinese restaurants located around New England area are kind of "fake", just like the feeling of an American goes to China and eats the burger there.

Here I want to introduce a very "famous" dish called "scrambled egg with tomato". It is "famous" because I think that is the first dish that most Chinese people since they were a kid learnt how to cook it. It is easy cooking and the procedure is relatively easier compare to many other Chinese food. Below is the recipe (actually it is the way I cook it):

materials: 3 eggs (usually enough for two people to eat it), 2 tomatoes, a scallion, salt, vegetable oil

(the number of the picture does not match the step, and skip the picture 8)

Step 1:

wash and clean the tomatoes, cut them into small pieces

Step 2:

crack eggs into a bowl and beat it up, then put half spoon of salt in to it, and stir it evenly.

Step 3:

Place a wok on a cooker, heat it a little bit, then put some oil in it (about 5 spoons). Add in the eggs you just stirred and stir fry it for about a minutes until it forms yellowish, then cut it into chunks.

Step 4:

Don't turn off the heat, pick the egg out and put them into the bowl you used, then directly put those tomatoes into the wok, stir-fry them for about 2 minutes until you can see the tomato juice.

Step 5:

After you see the juice, put those eggs back into the wok and stir-fry both eggs and tomatoes for about 2 minutes, mix them together.

Step 6:

After stir-frying, heat it for about 1 minutes and put some scallion into it.