Heat the oil in wok and add carrot and fry 2 minutes.

Add bacon and onion. Fry 30sec

Add garlic and ginger fry 30sec

Add cabbage, (bean sprouts, fried noodles or other optional elements.) Toss 1 minute

Add Tabasco, Shoaxing wine, oyster sauce and then cornflour and water. Stir then cover and cook for 5 minutes.

Then remove the cover and stir occasionally till cabbage is just cooked, at most a few more minutes.

1 Tbs vegetable oil
Cabbage head (core removed then shredded in large chunks)
2 slices bacon
1 onion
1 carrot
1 Tbs ginger (slivered)
1 Tbs garlic (slivered)

4 large dash's tabasco
1 Tbs oyster sauce
2 Tbs Shoaxing wine
Cornflour dissolved in 1 cup of water

 

Variations:
dried egg noodles blanched and grilled, bean sprouts, Baby sweet corn. Whatever.

Wouldn't it be great if we could just eat what we want when we want. Shame, shame, shame. So this is a great dish for when I am on my health kick diet. And it is yummy and very satisfying. I learnt this from watching a street vendor cook this in Hangzhou. He had a 20 person line up so I guessed his recipe was the best one. Eat this for dinner 3 times a week and you will loose weight. Its also a great side dish if your doing a Chinese banquet. Leave out the bacon and its a bit healthier and also a vegetarian dish.

A lot of people think the Chinese are slim and healthy from what the eat. Having lived there a lot I can tell you this is fantasy. In recent years the Chinese are showing real signs of becoming an obese society. The diet is strongly based around pork fat, MSG and cooking oil, mixed with a bit of rice and vegetables. Or Duck and fried pancakes. They love Pizza Hut and KFC. A quarter of  the supermarket shelves are devoted to candy and chocolates. Like all of us, as they become richer they are becoming fatter.