Cook'n Chinese

this week we wanted to take a break from our usual recipe driven videos and focus a bit on meal prep logistics see unlike in western cooking where meals tend to revolve around one large filling main dish Chinese meals tend to feature a number of smaller medium-sized dishes the concept is important because in my opinion the source of a lot of home cook struggles with stir frying abroad seemed to stem from overly ambitious portion sizes the rule of thumb here is to make roughly 1/3 to 500 gram dish per eater so 3 people 3 dishes 8 people 8 dishes so for the cook then the question naturally follows of how best to actually pull that off so today we wanted to walk you through how we personally think about that problem the meal in front of you was made for a family of four in mind it's a pretty good mix of stuff and this was all sorted within one hour which is a pretty realistic timeframe for