Cooking Chinese food can be overwhelming at first. It begins with a long shopping list of unfamiliar bottles, pastes, and vegetables, a trip to the Chinese supermarket, and hunting down ingredients often labeled without English. If you manage to get this far, the next challenge is adapting to a completely different cooking approach. And we haven’t even got to the kitchen yet.

Ginseng is known as the 'king of herbs' in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). In this explainer, we'll look at ginseng's health properties and how to use it in cooking.

Wheat Gluten, known as mian jin in Chinese - what is it exactly, how is it made, and how to cook with it? In this explainer, I run though the essentials.