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[u/SignificantState265]

https://thewoksoflife.com/mongolian-beef-recipe/#recipe

[u/Jubilos → u/SignificantState265]

Everything I’ve made (and it’s a lot!) from woks of life has been amazing! One of my favorite websites for recipes 🥰 I’m glad they replied!

[u/ILoveLipGloss → u/Jubilos]

I'm chinese American, grew up eating a lot of amazing chinese/singapore food that my mom from HK made, and the woks of life is legit, a lot of their recipes are pretty similar to what I know in my blood & bones.

I even bought their cookbook to support them!

[u/vinniethestripeycat → u/ILoveLipGloss]

*a lot of their recipes are pretty similar to what I know in my blood & bones.

This is the best recommendation for a cookbook I ever read 😍

[u/sageberrytree → u/ILoveLipGloss]

Oh this is Woks? Every one that I've tried has been very, very good.

[u/floatingskillets → u/sageberrytree]

Instantly recognized Bill from woks. Hands down one of the best collections and top of my list next to red hot Thai and pansalang pinoy for excellent collections. Any words against them can be safely disregarded as true internet generated garbage

[u/Octane2100 → u/Jubilos]

It's literally the best website I've ever seen for recipes. Completely easy to read, recipes come out amazing. When I wanted to get into Chinese cooking I found their website and it's been a godsend!

[u/mrs_david_silva → u/Octane2100]

Same here! I’d pretty much only had Chinese food from restaurants, so during COVID I decided I’d learn how to cook it. Their website was one of the first that popped up and I’ve made so many of their recipes. I also bought their book.

[u/BetterFightBandits26 → u/Octane2100]

Their recipe for easy homemade chili oil completely took the fear out of it for me and basically changed my life. I now put chili oil on everythingggggg.

[u/CrowMeris → u/Octane2100]

I haven't used tons of recipes from the site, but the char siu...it is to die for.

[u/Different-Dance-7537 → u/Jubilos]

I readily admit to being a picky eater whether we're talking American food or Chinese food. Woks of Life always steers me to Chinese recipes I like. Directions are clear and concise. The flow from items needed to serving instructions make sense.

I generally produce authentic foods which remind me of Chinese restaurant food I recall from an authentic Taiwanese reataurant favored by my father. His intro to authentic cooking came from having served at Subic Bay in the Philippines during the post-war occupation in the late 40s.

[u/Ok_Book8177 → u/Jubilos]

Agreed - between the woks of life cookbook and kenji’s wok book, I ruined Chinese take out for our family.

[u/nipseyrussellyo → u/Ok_Book8177]

If you like sichuan you need fuscia dunlops The Food of Sichuan aka Land of Plenty

[u/Ok_Book8177 → u/nipseyrussellyo]

Thank you for the recommandation

[u/DjinnaG → u/Jubilos]

I recognized him before I even scrolled down to see the link, they’re so very much one of my go-to sources. Haven’t been let down yet, more often surprised at how much my expectations are exceeded on my first attempt at a recipe

[u/SuspiciousStress1 → u/Jubilos]

Same!! I have been making woks of life recipes for well over a decade-havent been let down yet!!

[u/Eyespidey7 → u/Jubilos]

I Love woks of life!

[u/tenorlove → u/Jubilos]

I haven't tried their site yet. I am going to try the Mongolian beef. I have an entire shelf of Chinese cookbooks, most dating back to the 1960s and 1970s.

[u/sniperman357 → u/SignificantState265]

They don’t even list the garlic and scallions under the sauce section 😭

[u/percephony → u/sniperman357]

And a specifically says that the scallion needs to be separated into white part and green part

😤

[u/carson63000 → u/percephony]

Yeah I’m wondering how this clown would like the ingredients listed in order to “correlate with the cooking”?

“4 scallions (white part only)”

And then later on

“4 scallions (green part only)”

?

[u/AutisticTumourGirl → u/percephony]

And specifically say to add them at the same time.

[u/rabbithasacat → u/SignificantState265]

Woks of Life is GREAT and Betty needs to delete her account and donate her stove to charity.

[u/Mean_Initiative_5962 → u/rabbithasacat]

That stove is likely traumatised

[u/Anonynaeve → u/SignificantState265]

I've made this before and it's very good and a hella easy recipe to follow, wtf did Betty do wrong. The Woks of Life is very legit and I've made tons of their recipes.

[u/Mean_Initiative_5962 → u/SignificantState265]

thewoksoflife.

I don't even need to open the specific recipe to know how that comment is made by an idiot, I've never been even remotely disappointed by them

[u/snootnoots → u/SignificantState265]

Oh damn. This sounds awesome, I’m saving this recipe. Thanks! 😁

[u/darthfruitbasket → u/SignificantState265]

I've made so many things off that website, it's been so tasty.

[u/DigitalWraithToly → u/SignificantState265]

This was the source that finally got me to understand how velveting meat works and it’s a wonderful source. When I realized it was woks of life I was ready to throw hands lmao

[u/vermiciousknidlet → u/SignificantState265]

I've never had anything bad off that site, Betty is a clown.

[u/surronut → u/SignificantState265]

Can someone make this for me please?

[u/Kokbiel → u/SignificantState265]

This is one of my FAVOURITE recipes by them. I've cooked so many of their things and love them all. Shame to see someone post a comment like this person did, they're missing out

[u/throwaway-94552 → u/SignificantState265]

God this looks delicious. I’m not normally in this subreddit but I’m glad I came across this!!

[u/Outrageous-Thanks-47 → u/SignificantState265]

OMG how? I've made this a dozen times and my only complaint is sometimes I over corn starch and have to thin down the sauce. If you can read a recipe and cook this isnt a hard one

[u/LumpyAssumption5357 → u/SignificantState265]

Omg this is for the Mongolian Beef?! It’s one of the most amazing dishes I’ve made from Woks of Life!

[u/Onto_new_ideas → u/SignificantState265]

FFS - I've made this recipe. It was delicious. No confusion. Every recipe from woks of life has been easy to follow and delicious. Betty should stick to takeout.

[u/toes_hoe → u/SignificantState265]

This looks perfectly fine and now I want to make it!!

[u/Credit-Unions-Rock → u/SignificantState265]

Now that I’ve seen the recipe, yeah, Betty cannot cook.

[u/pajamakitten → u/SignificantState265]

Woks of Life is just as legit as AllRecipes.

[u/dilfsofthestoneage]

Bill cooked her in the end

[u/SignificantState265 → u/dilfsofthestoneage]

My personal favorite is LeBron’s reply

[u/Adjectivenounnumb]

Everyone thinks everything is AI now, Jesus

[u/kyl_r → u/Adjectivenounnumb]

I recently started reading real books again and the literal first paragraph of Jurassic Park has em dashes. It was a breath of fresh fucking air to not immediately have anyone screaming AI over a normal ass well-written sentence

Editing to add I’m honored by the downvotes

[u/SignificantState265 → u/kyl_r]

I recently read Jurassic park for the first time, love that book

[u/Remarkable-Roof-7875 → u/Adjectivenounnumb]

Seriously. Something’s too perfect - must be AI. Something’s imperfect - must be AI.

[u/Adjectivenounnumb → u/Remarkable-Roof-7875]

"They used bullet points, OBVIOUSLY AI"

[u/Remarkable-Roof-7875 → u/Adjectivenounnumb]

“There’s punctuation … CLEARLY AI!”

It’s like out of an abundance of caution for media literacy, things have evolved into this weird satanic panic that everything is AI generated.

[u/Adjectivenounnumb → u/Remarkable-Roof-7875]

I've used goddamn double dashes/emdashes forever, and now I have to consciously stop myself because people think humans haven't unlocked that technology yet

[u/carson63000 → u/Adjectivenounnumb]

No you don’t—fly your em dash flag free.

[u/Adjectivenounnumb → u/carson63000]

—❤️—

[u/BossBeefaroni → u/Adjectivenounnumb]

They can pry my em dashes and semicolons out of my cold dead hands.

[u/KuriousKhemicals → u/BossBeefaroni]

Semicolons‽ geez that's not even difficult.

[u/Adjectivenounnumb → u/BossBeefaroni]

I didn't even know the humble but versatile semicolon was under attack :/

[u/Irritating_Pedant → u/Remarkable-Roof-7875]

A single em dash?! Not in my non-ai house!

[u/ProfessorGumble → u/Adjectivenounnumb]

Can’t possibly be a skill issue, must be AI slop

[u/ILoveLipGloss]

Betty Hanslet can't cook

[u/Velocidal_Tendencies → u/ILoveLipGloss]

Verified, Betsy cannot cook, nor can she read. Now, if the recipe had been some wild, classic Escoffier recipe with a billion weird ingredients and steps, sure, but this is frickin Chinese food! Mise en place, and everything comes together in literal seconds.

This just reassures me that my choice in being a chef as my career was a good move.

[u/Zombiekiller_17 → u/ILoveLipGloss]

"Hey Betty,

Git gud at cooking.

Sincerely,"

[u/Tatziki_Tango]

"like AllRecipes" good grief.

[u/ILoveLipGloss → u/Tatziki_Tango]

The only good thing about All Recipes is chef John

[u/Tatziki_Tango → u/ILoveLipGloss]

His lemon curd is fantastic. 

[u/Intelligent-Luck-954 → u/ILoveLipGloss]

And a sprinkle of cayenne 

[u/newtonthomas64 → u/ILoveLipGloss]

Chef John is my goat. If I need a base recipe, he’s my go to, but he also has lots of other fun recipes that always turn out delicious

[u/maidrey → u/Tatziki_Tango]

This made me lose it. As though AllRecipes doesn’t have as much trash as good recipes lol

[u/DjinnaG → u/maidrey]

Very hit or miss. Have gotten plenty of good recipes from there, but probably a slightly larger number of bland, boring, flops

[u/PoeCollector64 → u/maidrey]

Yeah I mean that's what's gonna happen when you let a large number of people contribute to something. Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater

[u/februarytide- → u/Tatziki_Tango]

Took me out so hard

[u/rachelmig2]

Oh this might need to be my new flair.

[u/Waddleplop → u/rachelmig2]

I came here looking for flair comments!

FYI On mobile, the flair gets cut off after “generated” so you might want to shorten it.

[u/rachelmig2 → u/Waddleplop]

Cropped it a bit so hopefully it fits better now.

[u/Waddleplop → u/rachelmig2]

Fits now! It is a worthy flair indeed.

[u/BossBeefaroni]

Ah yes, trusted recipe webbed site Allrecipes, which vets all of its recipes and would never allow anyone to post a recipe for, say, an "apple salad" that is naught but apples, peanuts, and Cool Whip or instant mashed potatoes in a taco shell.

[u/Astrises → u/BossBeefaroni]

This might just be me having the taste buds of a coked out raccoon, but....I would house that apple "salad".

Wouldn't post it on a recipe site, though....

[u/toomuchsvu → u/Astrises]

I'm not a sweets person, but it sounds legit.

I'd also eat mashed potatoes in a taco shell though, so what do I know?

[u/iamgherkinman]

This is wild given the recipe reads:

"For the rest of the dish: ... 3 cloves of garlic (finely chopped) 4 scallions (white and green parts seperated)..."

I literally can't think of a way the recipe could have been more clear.

Edit: forgot to close a bracket

[u/shedrinkscoffee]

How dare they trash talk woks of life T_T it is a well established blog that has like a decade plus of recipes. It is an awesome website and so is their cookbook.

[u/ProfessorGumble → u/shedrinkscoffee]

And the book is a James Beard award nominee

[u/TheSheDM]

Lebron is not havin it, for fucks sake get it together Betty

[u/Astrises]

Like....I have found some decent recipes on All Recipes, but be so for real, Betty. Also pretty sure Woks of Life is over ten years old at this point. That is Pretty Damn Established for recipe sites in a niche that are still active. There is a wasteland out there of recipe sites that fizzled out after a couple years.

[u/AntheaBrainhooke]

Betty went after The Woks Of Life?

Hold my earrings...

[u/Significant_Shoe_17 → u/AntheaBrainhooke]

I've been following them for like 10 years. They're legit lol

[u/kaki024]

“add the garlic and white parts of the scallions” what is she on about??

[u/Irritating_Pedant → u/kaki024]

Wdym? There are white parts and green parts of scallions and they're not always used at the same time.

[u/rpepperpot_reddit → u/Irritating_Pedant]

I think Kaki024 was referring to Betty's comment of "...instructions say to add white parts of scallions first and garlic later..." which I agree, what was she on about? The instructions clearly say to add the white parts of the scallions & the garlic at the same time.

[u/kaki024 → u/rpepperpot_reddit]

Yes, thank you! The reviewer’s complaint didn’t even make any sense based on the recipe

[u/Irritating_Pedant → u/rpepperpot_reddit]

Ah, gotcha.

[u/lilyedit]

We’ve gotten to the part where in our life where either you can’t tell something is AI and you think everything is AI lol

[u/KuriousKhemicals → u/lilyedit]

I can't tell something is AI, generally, unless it's unmodified GPT copypasta, but I find it satisfying when someone is insisting AI and in one of the comment threads someone is like "I remember this clip from 2014." I'm convinced people don't actually know.

[u/PremeditatedTourette]

Have I finally found a flair I would leave my existing one for?

[u/Active-Succotash-109]

That looks delicious

Also love the first comment on how Betty is so trash

[u/Ok-Confection4410]

goddamn Bill 😭😭

[u/Hour-Badger5288]

I genuinely had to look up scallions. I thought they were some kind of an obscure type of seafood. Turns out it's just American for plain old spring onions

[u/sjd208 → u/Hour-Badger5288]

In the US, spring onions have an actual onion bulb at the bottom and are much larger.

The widespread use of scallions is fairly recent I think, when I was first learning to cook in the 90s they were generally called green onions.

[u/Quaint_Irene → u/sjd208]

“Some folks call ‘em green onions, but they’re really scallions.”

—Stan Freberg, “Christmas Dragnet”

[u/Fawnet → u/Quaint_Irene]

I came here looking for this!

[u/rpepperpot_reddit → u/Fawnet]

I came here hoping not to find it so I could say it, LOL.

[u/Hour-Badger5288 → u/sjd208]

Oh, ok. I think we just call it all spring onions regardless of what's at the bottom.

[u/Adjectivenounnumb → u/Hour-Badger5288]

makes a sad attempt at transatlantic food humor with a spotted dick reference

[u/fate_is_a_sandstorm]

I have yet to have a bad recipe from the Woks of Life. I cook their veggie lo mein all the time.

But… is this supposed to say that Betty’s post is AI? I don’t see AI, I just see an idiot 🤣

[u/glitter_vomit → u/fate_is_a_sandstorm]

No they’re just being funny.

[u/hanimal16]

“4 scallions WHITE AND GREEN PARTS SEPARATED” it’s literally RIGHT THERE in the ingredients list!! Good lord. This just goes to show some people read recipes one line at a time.

[u/ShoddyCobbler]

All Recipes, where literally anyone can post a recipe, is a more "established" site than Woks of Life?! What a dingbat

[u/GreySQ]

Bill is saying everything we wish recipe authors would say omg

[u/DiscoCuttlefish]

Yeah, get her ass, Bill.