Chinese cooking owed its artistry to its extraordinary utensils, let alone the traditional ones. But today, as Eastern and Western cultures meet, some of the Western cookery tools are also used for cooking Chinese food.
Essential tools for cooking Chinese cuisine:
a seasoning tray with jugs of salt, sugar, corn flour, light soy sauce, dark soy sauce, oil, and pepper
wok + wok chaan + wok cover
different kinds of cleavers + chopping board
a rolling pin including a classic pin (fusiform) which is a rod thickened towards the middle
modern pin which is a rod with handles at both sides and used for rolling out wonton skins
colander (plastic/wire-mesh)
mortar + pestle (substitute of the cleaver)
ladles (solid/wire-mesh)
rice cookers
saucepans
wide-blade spatula
frying strainer
bamboo chopsticks
And utensils for making special meals on festive occasions are:
mooncake pressers (for molding mooncakes in the Mid-Autumn Festival)
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