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Originally Posted by montsnmags
Also, cheap bamboo steamers in a variety of sizes, and good, large, decent woks (functional over fancy)...future presents for The Loved One.
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Some years ago (25? 30?) there were several Chinese cooking shows on TV. Martin Yan's "Yan Can Cook" was my favorite! He said get the really cheap hammered iron woks without wooden handles. At the same time, there were some Occidental Chinese chefs pushing Teflon coated woks for $39.95, cast iron woks, and even electric woks! Martin Yan's instructions were to keep away from the department stores and instead shop for a wok in a Chinese hardware store. Cleavers too. And that's where I got all my Chinese cooking gear, including the bamboo steamer baskets! In a hardware store in the Chinatown section of Montreal! A couple of woks of different sizes, a good cleaver, wok spoon and spatula, bamboo baskets, large mesh ladles for removing things from hot oil, etc., etc. I doubt I spent more than $50 on everything together, and I'm still using those same iron things today. The bamboo baskets got lost in one of my moves... New ones here, even in the Chinatown area of Kobe cost about $50 for a set of three.
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