Chinese-food recipe

Chinese Recipe : Kung Pao Chicken

Ingredients:
3/4 lb. chicken, boned and skinned
2 tbsps. oyster sauce
2 1/2 tbsps. cooking oil
8 small dried red chilies
4 tsps. minced garlic
2 stalks celery, diced
1/2 red bell pepper, cut into 1−inch squares
1 can (8 oz.) bamboo shoots, sliced and drained
2 tsp. cornstarch dissolved in 1 tablespoon water
1 tsp. cornstarch
1/3 cup roasted peanuts

Sauce:
3 tbsps. Chinese rice wine or dry sherry
1/4 cup Chinese black vinegar or balsamic vinegar
1/4 cup chicken broth
1 tbsp. soy sauce
2 tbsps. hoisin sauce
2 tsp. sesame oil
2 tsps. chili garlic sauce
2 tsps. sugar

Directions:
Cut chicken into 1−inch pieces. Marinade chicken with oyster sauce in a bowl and let stand for 10 minutes.
Combine sauce ingredients in a bowl.
Place a wok over high heat until hot. Add 2 tablespoons oil, swirling to coat sides. Add chilies and cook, stirring, until fragrant, about 10 seconds.
Add chicken and stir fry for 2 minutes. Remove chicken and chilies from wok.
Add remaining 1/2 tablespoon oil to wok, swirling to coat sides. Add garlic and cook, stirring, until fragrant, about 10 seconds. Add celery, bell pepper, and bamboo shoots; stir fry for 1 1/2 minutes.
Return chicken and chilies to wok; stir fry for 1 minute. Add sauce and bring to a boil. Add cornstarch solution and cook, stirring, until sauce boils and thickens. Add peanuts and stir to coat.

I copy this from chinese food website, because I do not know how to cook it. But I really love it.
I order this everytime when I go to an restaurant. I have tried to do this before, but i failed. I can not control heat and time to add ingredients and sauce. If you try this just one time, you are gonna love it.

My family

I'm the only child in my family, owing to policy in china,which says each family should just have one child. My father is a businessman. When i was a child, i just remembered that he was too busy to have time to take care of me. He wanted to make lots of money and improved our living standard. He has done what he said before. Now, he is also busy to make money. He always tell me some ehtics. When i did something wrong, he would not beat me. Instead of this, he would tell me a story which infered how I could correct the mistake I did. My mother is a nurse. The most impressive thing I remembered is every time I got a sick, she would give me an injection by herself. Three years ago, I got a message said that my father was divorced from my mother. I was so shocked at that time, but after that period of time, I thought it maybe was a great solution to solve the problems between.

Traditional Weddings in China

Every country has its own culture, including weddings. The wedding in China is quite different from the western wedding in U.S.
Now, I'm gonna introduce the traditional weddings in China.

The traditional wedding should be held in the evening. And a bridgegroom and a bride should wear traditional clothes. A bride will dress up and make up, which seems like that day is the most beautiful day of her's. The bride should wait for her bridgefroom in their room with head scarf. They cannot meet each other before going to bed. And at this time, the bridgegroom will drink and get the blessing from their friends. After this, the bridgegroom and bride will have arm-cross toast and say something to each other.

This is a general description of the traditional wedding in Chia

Appositive clause

Appositive clause can be divided into two parts, restrictive appositive clause and non-restrictive appositive clause. The function of appositive clause is to explain the noun further, which means that make reader or listener more clear about the noun writter or speaker expresses.

Here the examples of restrictive appositive clause:
1. My father Guan Ping has told me that you get out what you put in.
2. My favourite movie is The Rock which was acted by the famous actor Nicolas Cage.

Here a example of non-restrictive appositive clause:
1. Niki's car, the red one in the parking, must be stolen by Derek.

Interesting thing about language

There are thousands kinds of language in the world. Everyone has its own feature. Since i came to Iowa City, I have studyed IIEp for 1 month with people who come from Japan, Korea, Spain and Turkey. The verb in sentence korean people always say is put at the last of statement. So Japanese does. The grammar of Chinese is similar to English.
Chinese, korean and Japan have some similar pronunciation of words, like it's almost same when we say library in our own language. Also noodles are nearly same too.

Sports

I don't have the most favourite sport. Instead of that, I like to play any interesting sports, except sports related to water. I am good at playing pool, table tennis and soccer. I remebered that when I had lived in dorm for a few days, my roommate just said" let's go and play pool in Mayflower." I thought it was a chance to exert my potential to the full play. So we went to there, and my roommate and I were in a same team to play with two native guys. When it came to my turn, I just hited 7 balls in. My roommate said" Oh my god! How can you do that ? Teach me. You are not a beginner."That two locative guys were superisesd and shocked. They could not believe that we won the game in a few minutes. I was proud of myself. That was awesome.

Trip in Chicago

There were five chinese guys and Alicia in our group. Our destination of the trip in Chicago was Art Institute of Chicago, which was the first place we visited in thsi big city. There were many works of art displaying in the Art of Institute, which were not only got from America, but also from other countries, such as China, Korea, and French. There were many paintings painted by French, which were hard for me to understand what they wanted to express. We felt so hungry during the visit in Art Institute. So we found where the train was by asking locative people and got to there as quick as we could. There was a terrible thing happening to our group. We missed the stop we wanted to get off owing to we didn't hear the boradcast. The volume of voice is too small. Fortunately, we ate chinese food at least. You might not imagine that it cost us 80 dollars. It was so expensive. I just thought how much you could earn in one day. Alicia tasted the moon cake. She thought it was awesome. We ate pizza for dinner, which Alicia said it was the must tasted food when you came to Chicago. It may not as delicious as pizza in Burge.