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Eat some lobster

Lobster!

My Quick tip: pick Chinese cucumber or cucumber that are fresh, sweet, watery and crispy, mostly eat raw without adding sauces or through cooking method by Chinese people. Those grows are not found in the US supermarket as I searched in 99RanchMarket, Target, Vons, Costco and Walmart, rarely seen in Australia though I bought some before. If you have it, chopped to 4cm/1 1/2 inch length, crush it with plate bottom on chopping board. Smash some garlic into sauce bowl.

Traditional way in my hometown: sugar, vinegar, sesame oil, salt, soy sauce, dried small shrimp(optional but good to have), sesame(optional), maybe peppercorn oil(not used at home).

Mitsukan, Zesty Italian could be used to replace some of the sauces above, try them wise.

Also if you have fresh/dried raw peanut, boil remove sheet, mix in serve together. As long as you are not allergic to nuts.
Using boiled peanut/beans to replace bread, one dish per meal is okay to me.

Btw, a fact I've learnt is my hometown and greater the area, the east part of the province, are unlike most other place in China, we have many types of food that are hard to chew, and we eat raw, raw vegetables, shrimp, crab etc. Other 1.3 billion Chinese won't like hard food and they mostly won't eat raw food and many cannot tolerate eating cold dish often.







Stir and enjoy. Quick and fresh.

All ingredient need to be fresh.

I don't remember any cases to add salt when boiling seafood, correct me with certain examples.
In this case, no salt added to poor lobster.

For fun, you could learn to cook American Chinese dishes.

Americans have a style of food we call "Chinese food" but it is not very much like actual Chinese food. Americans are strange; we steal ideas from cultures all over the world and then turn them into something very different.

American Chinese food is mostly meat cut into small pieces (usually chicken, beef, or pork), cooked very quickly in a hot wok with some vegetables, and then covered in a thick sauce (usually very syrupy i.e. a lot of sugar) and served with rice. There are a number of standard dishes that are commonly available in every Chinese restaurant in America, each with a slightly different variation of meat, vegetables, and sauce.

You can find recipes for these all over the English-speaking Internet; I'm guessing you won't find them written in the Chinese language because I don't think Chinese people make them like we do.

Here are some very typical American Chinese dishes. For the chicken dishes, you can easily substitute pork since you don't like eating birds.

Mongolian Beef
Pepper Steak
Sweet and Sour Pork
Almond Chicken
General Tso's Chicken
Sesame Chicken

To save time cooking, you could make the sauces in advance and store them. You could do the same with the meats and vegetables; chop them into small pieces in advance and store them in the refrigerator. Then fry them quickly in a little oil in a hot wok, pour some sauce on them, and serve them with some rice (not too much rice since you say that carbohydrates make you drowsy).

Your friends will wonder what you are doing. You can tell them "I'm eating like an American!"

Canada isn't real