Beef Chow Fun: The Traditional Cantonese Way! - The Woks of Life

Beef chow fun is a popular Cantonese dish made from stir-frying beef, wide rice noodles, scallions, bean sprouts and dark soy sauce at very high heat!

Vegetable Chow Fun

This vegetable chow fun uses eggplant, lightly fried to give the dish a richer texture and shiitake mushrooms rounding out the umami flavors. Use vegetarian oyster sauce yet in this vegetable chow fun and it is a vegan and vegetarian dish!

Chinese Beef and Broccoli Noodles

Chinese Beef and Broccoli Noodles is your favourite Beef and Broccoli stir fry with the addition of noodles! This is great Asian takeout at home.

Bok Choy With Chives, Black Bean Sauce, and Chow Fun

Instead of noodles, the base of the dish is stir-fried bok choy (cooked in a super-heated cast iron wok to get some nice, smoky wok hei into it) along with flowering chives, Chinese chives, and leeks in a savory fermented black bean and soy-based sauce. The noodles are still great—perfect for adding a bit of textural and flavor contrast—but now their ratio is more akin to the marshmallows in the Rice Krispies.

Spicy Beef Hokkien Noodles

A classic beef hokkien noodle stir fry. Easy, healthy and fast!

Beef with Black Bean Sauce

Beef with black bean sauce is a classic combination found on Chinese restaurant menus around the country, and it’s easy to make at home!

Beef and Pickled Mustard Greens (Haam Choy)

Beef and Pickled Mustard Greens is Cantonese comfort food—a simple, quick, yet delicious recipe, especially with homemade haam choy!

Noodles with Flank Steak, Bok Choy, and Black Bean Sauce

Chinese black bean sauce has the power to make anything it touches taste meatier and more robust. More importantly, it does this almost instantly, without any long simmering required. This is especially welcome on a busy weeknight, because all I have to do is prep and cook some vegetables and meat, boil some noodles, mix in sauce, and serve.

Beef and Mushroom Stir-Fry Rice Plate

Beef and Mushroom Stir-Fry is a quick, easy dish that'll have you thinking of mom’s cooking or rice plate lunches at your favorite Chinese restaurant.

Beef with Oyster Sauce

This Chinese beef with oyster sauce recipe is simple, savory, and delicious with steamed rice. It’s also a full and balanced meal!