Most People Waste Their Rotisserie Chicken! Try These Chinese Dinners

🥢 Everything my mother taught me about cooking for one, I wrote down for you. 📘 CHINESE COOKING FOR ONE - get it here: https://cookwithmeilin.com You bring home a rotisserie chicken, eat the breast the first night, pick at a leg the next day, and by Thursday half of it goes in the trash, bones and all. My name is Mei Lin. I grew up in Guangzhou, and in my grandmother's kitchen one chicken was a whole week of dinners. Here is how one store chicken becomes 10 Chinese dinners, from the first warm plate all the way down to a pot of soup from the bones. In this video: The 10-minute job on the first night that makes the whole week work Cold chicken with ginger and green onion oil Crispy chicken skin, and the jar of chicken fat that makes rice taste like a restaurant Chicken fat fried rice that gives dry breast meat a second life Real chow mein, crisp outside and soft in the middle Chicken and sweet corn soup with silky egg ribbons Chicken lettuce cups Chicken with peppers and black bean sauce Soup from the bones, and ginger chicken noodle soup Bone broth jook, the last spoonful the chicken has to give How long cooked chicken keeps, and why every dinner needs less soy sauce No special equipment and no long shopping list. Just one chicken, a frying pan, a pot and a few bottles from the Asian aisle. You do not have to make all 10. Take 10 minutes on the first night, give every part a place to go, then pick one dinner this week. What did your mother or grandmother do with the chicken bones? Did she make soup, or did she have a trick I have never heard of? Tell me in the comments. I read every one. Watch more: Most People Waste Their Rice Cooker! Try These Chinese One-Pot Dinners    • Most People Waste Their Rice Cooker! Try T...   Most People Are Using Their Air Fryer Wrong! Try These Chinese Tricks    • Most People Are Using Their Air Fryer Wron...   10 Cheap Chinese 10-Minute Soups for Seniors Living Alone    • 10 Cheap Chinese 10-Minute Soups for Senio...   Chapters: 0:00 One chicken, 10 Chinese dinners 1:23 10. The first warm plate 2:01 The book I put all of this in 2:19 Taking the chicken apart in 10 minutes 4:18 9. Cold chicken with ginger and green onion oil 6:26 8. Crispy chicken skin and a jar of gold 8:25 7. Chicken fat fried rice 11:04 6. Real chicken chow mein 13:42 5. Chicken and sweet corn soup 16:00 4. Chicken lettuce cups 17:54 3. Chicken with peppers and black bean sauce 19:58 2. Soup from the bones 22:43 1. Bone broth jook, the last spoonful 25:47 All 10 dinners, and where to start