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Originally Posted by Stitchawl
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.
Stitchawl
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that's interesting... in the little chinese shop in the warren of shops across the street from Pike Place Market in Seattle I get those stacking sets for about 10 bucks for the small ones and 15-20 for the large ones. I've cooked them to pieces more than a few times
