Chinese Takeout Lo Mein Secrets Revealed
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 พ.ค. 2024
- A comprehensive guide to classic Chinese takeout beef lo mein at home! Lo mein is one of the most popular dishes at every Chinese takeaway! Today, I’ll break down all the tips, tricks, and techniques so you’ll be able to make takeout lo mein at home even better than any takeaway restaurant you’ve ever been to! And for a fraction of the cost!
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Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
0:37 Noodles
2:15 The Sauce
3:34 The Beef
5:29 Preparing Lo Mein
8:56 Taste Test
9:44 “Western Ingredient” Lo Mein
10:20 Thanks! - แนวปฏิบัติและการใช้ชีวิต
Wanna learn how to make Chinese takeout fried rice at home? Check out this video: th-cam.com/video/qURmdmgCCOI/w-d-xo.html
Thanks! Tres bien :D
🤦Tupac and Biggie? Really? Naw, man! Naw😓
Ok.
Please do a Pho recipe!
What does neutral oil mean btw just wanted to ask
I swear, this video along with the one on fried rice are better than any cooking program I've ever seen in my life.
agree! my life has changed ever since. now fried rice is currently the best dish i can cook alone!
Facts
We've hit the jackpot with this channel.
You should watch good eats! 😊
Facts
I love how you take the time to show alternatives to equipment or ingredients so that the recipe can be accessible to almost anyone. Great video Jason.
4:19 after washing beef. When stir frying, add a carbonated drink of your choice near the end of the cooking cycle.
Even the alternatives are inaccessible to me
@Repent and believe in Jesus Christ Go deepthroat a cactus, then give your sermons.
I'm looking at how well it can be done on normal electric plates instead of gas
@@HappyBeezerStudios I'm in the same boat, how did that go?
Oyster sauce was created on accident. Cook forgot oyster soup on stove, cooked down to a rich amazing sauce, without a strong oyster flavor. Oyster sauce a staple in Hawaiian cooking. Thank you for sharing.
The cook was like.
*Washing the dishes*
Shit!
*Rushes to the stove*
Fuck!
Ewwww
*Tries some*
Dayuum
My brother’s review of this when I brought him a plate: “dude this is freaking fantastic”
Thanks for the thorough walkthrough of the recipe! This was my first time making anything like this, and it turned out amazing!!
Hell yeah! I’m really happy you enjoyed it!! Tell your brother I say what’s up!
@@farmageddon Will try your recipe soon, but no msg?
@@someguy2972It apparently doesn’t need it lol
As someone with a shellfish allergy who used to love chinese takeout, thank you for mentioning the oyster sauce substitutes. It took me ages to find out they made those and it helps so much with flavors.
remember, broken noodles lead to a broken heart
@@BobRooney290 Hard times create strong men, strong men create strong noodles, strong noodles create good times, good times create weak men, and weak men create hard times.
Thank you so much for just straight up including a google doc of the recipe. Most people won't even put text instructions in their video description anymore, since they seem to think it's clever to force you to rewatch their video over and over to cross-reference it. I can't believe you're the first person I've seen actually link a detailed writeup!
The google doc is awesome!
I prefer to have recipes and guides in text form as well.
That counts for cooking just as much as for gaming. Not the kinds of tasks where you have clean and unoccupied hands to scroll back the video.
I made this recently and to my surprise it actually came out so good, and was just as delicious as the take out we get, even my dad was impressed by it!
YES!! Just made this, and it turned out great. Every bit as good as restaurant takeout! The beef came out tender and tasty (that's been the problem when I've tried to grope my way through this dish in the past). The sauce was perfect. Noodles were coated, but not soupy. Just fantastic. My wife enjoyed it. And my little girl, well, she actually ate it without any complaining, and trust me, that's high praise from her.
So a huge success. Thanks so much for spelling out the tricks that took this to the next level.
Thanks, John! I sincerely appreciate you!
My favourite thing in your videos is how you always cut to a small bit of footage backing up what you're saying at the time e.g. when you say "turn down the heat" we see the flame getting smaller. I really appreciate that kind of attention to detail, very satisfying.
You know where that comes from? I have a friend who is an incredible videographer and editor and I asked him how to get better and he told me to just do literal editing. Like everything I say to show visually. Then when I master that to try and do more artistic shots. I’m still very much a beginner, so I just try to stick to doing literal shots! Thank you for noticing! It’s very much appreciated! :)
The editing here is outstanding
As a Lo Meiniac, I just want to say how awesome it is that you always include grams with your instructions. You legit can not find easier-to-follow instructional videos than yours anywhere. Na na na nananana, nannana, hey Jason
I am 100% using "Lo Meiniac" in my vocabular. That is gold.
I really appreciate how you explain every step and the rationale behind them, so many times people do not do that. Thank you.
Dude. Your videos are SO comprehensive. Thank you sir.
"lo main-tenance" I caught that! Lol. I swear this is what I get every time I go to a Chinese restaurant, a combination lo mein. Oh and a side of salt and pepper fried chicken wings. Thank you so much for this ❤️
Angela!!! So nice to see you! I hope you had a great Christmas and I hope you have a wonderful new year!!! Tell your family I say hello!!
"lo mein-iacs" and "shoaxing redemption". Ha love how subtle he whips out the jokes too
Hate to burst your bubble but that's not how you say "lo mein". In Cantonese, we call it 撈麵 (Lo Meen). Not "Lo Main". That mispronunciation has always irritated me.
@@tinlunlau1 Brother, all words and their pronunciations are made up. The pronunciation is not divined from some dictionary or deity, it's what people speaking it say. Y'all pronounce it it "Lo Meen", that's great! Neither way of saying it is objectively correct. I really hope you don't try and "correct" people irl, it makes you look like an asshole.
Language prescriptivists have always irritated me ;)
@@aidancollins1591 spoken like a true unilingual person. 🤦
Thank you so much for putting the recipe in a google doc, and not on a cluttered website with advertisements. Your content is the best!
This is HANDS DOWN the best recipe I have found!!! Thank you for sharing.
I totally LOVE how thoroughly you cover recipes! Plus your wit and sense of humor make your videos even better!
Ever since I found your channel from the fried rice video, I have been in love with it. Straight to the point amazing well researched and produced content, no middle cuts or wacky sounds asking for likes and sub, phenomenal explaination and lastly my god due to the amount of well researched R&D all the videos are easily caterable to the average home cook.
Just want to say that the effort and time you put into organizing and linking all the ingredients on amazon does not go unappreciated. You're the GOAT!
This video is an absolute teasure chest of hints for chinese cooking in general, not just lo mein. Tysm for this. 🎉
I CANNOT stress enough how important the bicarb is for tenderising the meat as well as allowing the flavours to penetrate the meat better. I made two stir fry dishes within a couple of days of each other and it was like night and day. The one with bicarb came out the winner by far. Tender, delicious beef.
Baking Soda
When he emphasized LEE KUM KEE's premium oyter sauce, I knew this channel is committed. I am Madarin Chinese with no Cantonese background and I love SERIOUS Cantonese cuisine in traditional way. Thanks Jason.
kum lol
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mandarin chinese??
Thai brand is better... Just saying
@@chocopieaddict9792 Yup. As you may already aware by now, Chinese is not an ethnic group. Scope wise, similar to the word ‘European’.
Like someone else recently said, this recipe is incredible. The video, instructions, the recipe…everything was perfect. I have food allergies and I was able to sub out a few things and it still tastes amazing. This is will be forever in our regular dinner/lunch rotation! Thank you!!!!!!
I just made this. It came out delicious! 😋 My picky eaters love it too! The only thing I use differently is vegetarian oyster sauce and regular sesame oil instead of toasted sesame oil since that’s what I have in my pantry. It still came out good. 😊
You are a blast to watch! Perfectly paced video and very accessible for non professional chefs. Now I’m gonna have to start binge-watching your content
I've always wanted to learn how to make great Asian food for those times you want to cook for yourself. Just discovered your channel yesterday and this was the dish it was missing. Thanks for your dedication to cooking and editing skills. Top notch quality all around.
Holy cow. I love that you show us all the different brands and products for certain ingredients and that it's fine to use this or that giving us more options. Not everyone lives near an asian store or has an asian (or in general) store that has a certain or exact brand etc. Kudos and thanks.
This is the most perfect video for DIY lo mein. Precise instructions and alternative ingredients are a nice touch. Great job.
I have just finished cooking it for the first time and my first bite was a revelation! It tastes exactly like the noodles in the restaurant.
Thanks you so much for this recipe. ❤
DAMN!! This is the very BEST video tutorial of this dish I've ever seen. The time you took to breakdown every ingredient and process of cooking it along with which store bought items you used was very informative. Nothing was glazed over. I Subscribed. Thank you!
You're quickly becoming one of my favourite cookery TH-camrs.
Hey, thank you! That really means a lot!
I agree
Same I’m loving the Asian cuisine content
I just made this right now, and it was amazing!!! Thanks for the recipe and tips, they make so much of a difference!
Hi again, I've made this dish tonight and got all my friends jealous 😊 thank you for this visual resource and your recipe!!
Your recipes are always so detailed. I love them. Thank you so much.
Love your videos, style, links, timestamps, and recipe format. Can't wait to try making this myself!
i know what i am saying:
this guide is PERFECTION!!! 👌😊❤❤
the last step of not cooking the veggies on flame, and instead cooking it with the heat in the noodles is pure genius, it makes a whole world of difference in the end when you get to taste the veggies release their natural flavour in your mouth! that is in perfect confluence with flavour of the beef!!
I must try this recipe. I am wide eyed and super impressed with your teaching style, including *"the reason why" and "alternative ingredients* "Thank you so much! I'll post after I make it. 😊
I love this guy. I tried this recipe and his fried rice recipe, I never made these dishes before and they turned out more tastier than the restaurant, especially places like Panda Express or Chop Stix, and way cheaper. I have a 99 ranch store not far where I live, so buying the ingredients was really easy. I don't like cabbage so i just left that out and replaced it with mushrooms and added baby shrimp. Turned out really good.
Your Asian Food love is impressive. You truly have the BEST videos for all of the usual Asian favorites. I enjoy every video.
Found this video and I'm super excited to try it!! I'm the main cook in my home and I've been trying and failing to make lo mein that I cared about, so this looks very promising!! Thank you for the humor and the advice 😊
Probably, this is the BEST video on Lo Mein noodles. The tricks have been very well explained. Thanks a lot.
I love how you test different brands. Sometimes it makes a huge difference
Hi Tatiana!!
Hi Jason you killed it once again!
Cooked this tonight and was blown away. Jason, you've given me a new base for amazing chinese meals at home. I've made a few changes to the recipe (of course) by adding a head of brocolii and missing out the cabbage, but at around $5 a (large) meal this is going to be a staple in my house. Note the recipe makes 2 serves for hungry people. I can't wait to try this recipe with rice see how that works, it should also cut a bit of $$ out of it. Will definitely be trying your fried rice recipe. Subscribed, and liked.
It's a good home version. But let's not say it's better than 99% of what you get in Chinese restaurants. It's not and it comes down to wok hei. Your tiny burner is no substitute for a jet engine wok in a professional restaurant made by a wok master chef. That's where half the flavor comes from.
You’re genuinely the best cooking channel I’ve ever come across, perfection from end to end
Hi, Jason! You gave some very helpful tips on "washing" the meat, sauce proportions, etc. I specifically bought the Lee Kum Kee's oyster sauce. As a result I got great noodles with delicious flavor. This is the best version of the recipe I have ever tried! Thanks a lot, man!
Thank you, Jason! I made this last night and it was truly better than any takeout I have had. Please keep the recipes coming! I plan to make almost everything you have on your channel now haha
hell yeah!! I'm really happy you enjoyed it, Jared!!
I made this and it came out GREAT! Thank you so much for the recipe and the detailed explanation!
I want to give this channel credit for how many times I've used this recipe - it is in regular rotation at my house hold, and will continue to be so. Keep up the good content!
What a thorough video!!! Love it- you have given us so much tips and options to make this dish accessible to the home cook
I've made this three times now and it's in my regular rotation! Oyster sauce is a must! Without it, your lo mein won't have that deep, satisfying flavor
I’ve been trying to learn how to cook Chinese food because is getting harder to find a good restaurant, so I found your channel and it has all the info and recipes I need to start making my own Chinese food ,thanks
Appreciate all the information you give to help us become better cooks. You're a very good teacher!
I haven’t tried it yet but your technique and explanations are soo user friendly! Great job!
Made for lunch today... and we were both blown away. I cook ALOT at home and finally feel like a long, long search is over for a great, at home, Lo Mein. I did make my own protein substitute as we don't eat meat, but nonetheless a supreme lunch. Found a couple of things that I was lacking at a local Asian Market here in Northern Spain. I thank you for taking the time. I will definitely be checking out your channel. I also very much appreciated your approach to teaching and explanations, substitutes and so on. ¡Bien hecho!
Duuuuuuuuuude! This came out AMAZING! I'm always looking to male the tastes i love at home and your recipe, secrets, and techniques NAILED it! Thank you for this video!
This is such a detailed video. As someone who loves a good stir fried noodle dish, I thoroughly enjoyed this, and really loved that you had that ending/substitutions for those of us who don't have an Asian grocery store available. Thank you 🙏🏻
👋 HEY BRO! As a professional chef this recipe is 100% correct. This recipe is great for the local Chinese restaurant that you love.. Adding baking soda to the meat 🍖 is a great little trick..Also I use MSG instead of salt
hey, thanks, man!
Another great video, Jason. Thank you. I really enjoy trying your recipes and you’re impeccably thorough and easy to follow. You should teach classes on how to teach classes! 😂
Wow! This is a great recipe. I made it tonight and it tastes like the real Restaurant style Lo Mein. It will be my go to recipe from now on. Thank You Jason!
This content was pure genius...thx...even the descriptions were on point...keep up the good work I look forward to more of your content.
Thank you for the noodle discussion! So many recipe videos on TH-cam don't cover that part!
Hi Jason! First of all, I grew up and spent most of my life either in the LA area or the Bay Area of California, so I grew up eating really good Chinese food. Now I live in Montana & no joke, the best Chinese food we have here is Panda Express which has gotten progressively worse over the years. So in the last few years, I’ve been working on learning to make the food I’ve loved so much my entire life. I’ve tried recipe after recipe for lo mein and nothing came out good. Edible, yeah, but good, not really. I found your recipe yesterday and realized I had every thing I needed so I gave it a go. No joke, it’s the best lo mein I’ve had in at least 20 years and certainly is as good as anything I used to buy in Chinatown. It’s the meat, you nailed it. Every time I’ve tried before, the meat came out like hard stringy little hockey pucks. Tonight I used tri tip steaks and followed your recipe exactly. (I like to follow exactly tue first time I try a recipe, before I start adjusting for my own tastes). It was perfect! Seasoned so well I didn’t need to add anything to eat it. Not drowning in soy sauce, just perfect. Montana is a Chinese food wasteland, and I’m thrilled I finally was able to make the best lo mein I’ve ever had!!!Thank you so much!! I subscribed and am going to try your fried rice recipe next. My request would be for spicy green beans with minced pork. That is one of my favorite Chinese recipes and I’d love to have a better recipe for it. This lo mein recipe is life changing! Again, thank you so so much! Also thank you for making an actual document with the recipe on it. You deserve to have an absolutely booming TH-cam channel!!
Wow!! Thank you SO MUCH! I'm very flattered by your extremely kind and considerate comment! I'm very happy you enjoyed the dish! It brings me a lot of joy knowing folks actually try out the dishes and like them!
I plan on doing a lot more in this series so if there are any other recipes or dishes you like and want to see, please let me know and I promise I'll put them on my list of dishes to investigate!
Thanks again and I sincerely hope you have a wonderful day!! :)
I forgot to add, I’m putting the green beans on my list! Was driving when I wrote the first response!!
@@farmageddon sichuan green beans with pork is really good
Just made it for the first time. My family loves my lo mein but something was always missing for me. I love it!! Since it was my first time, I followed step by step.The meat was tender just as he said. Will definitely make again.
Thank you so much for that recipe!! My family and I absolutely love it. Wow!
Awesome Jason...When I got notified that you had this up I couldn't click on it fast enough. Thanks for showing me these tips!
To truly get that takeout taste, reduce a bit of the salt and sugar, instead sprinkle a bit of that msg into the sauce. Oyster sauce has a little but not enough.
I made this tonight and followed the recipe exactly. We have a new Asian market near us that had the exact wine and oyster sauce and noodles you recommended. Wow! Wow! This was great!!!! Thank you Jason for a well-researched recipe that was presented clearly so even a novice could follow your directions!
Instant subscription, I really appreciate how you search alternatives for everything, thank you
You keep making videos as good as this one and reaching one million subscribers will be inevitable. Really great work here
Been making this the past few days... kick ass recipe. I'm addicted
It even tastes great cold.
Instantly subscribed when you recommended brands and showed packaging! Love the detail and have been looking for a lo mein recipe! I will come back after I make to leave a review
I’ve been cooking for asian food 20 years and I learned some new things thanks to your video. 😊
Your content is high quality, easy to follow, and detailed. I haven’t tried the recipe yet but I have the confidence to now! Thanks for all that you do.
Thank you!
9:10 As someone from Southeast Asia, it’s just fried noodle. I can tell it’s delicious and hope lots of Americans/Westerners learn and enjoy it just as they do with pasta dishes.
Jason your videos are a fascinating look into takeout kitchens. Thank you for saving this information.
thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed the video!
I’m grateful to find a channel that is showing how to cook my favorite Chinese dishes. Just watched your Mongolian beef one from Changs.
Salute. Truly a common man's expert.
Well done. Keep up the good work.
Thank you for yet another awesome video! Can't wait to try this!
I just made your recipe, in fact my husband and I just ate a nice bowl each and everything was spot on. I used thinly sliced pork loin instead of the beef and the velveting technique made it super tender and juicy. Since I like my lo mein a little sweeter, I added a couple more tablespoons of black soy at the end. Chef's kiss here. Scrumptious keeper of a recipe. 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
Your recipes are AMAZING. Best I’ve made tbh. For real! You’re a genius!
Love this channel. Your fried rice videos have helped me make fried rice how me and my family love to have it. We've saved so much money because of it. I make fried rice and lo mein 10+ times a week and it's helped us both save money and be more healthy. I'm glad I'll be able to bump up my lo mein too.
It feels amazing that even with prices going higher me and my family don't have to give up dishes we like and don't even have to compromise flavor. So, once again, thank you for these videos, you've helped me and my family greatly.
Thank you, Joshua! I’m really happy your family is enjoying the food!!
That’s a really sweet review, Joshua. I’m glad your family is enjoying.
Another solid video! I can't wait to try this out this week 😋
Such a thorough and detailed explanation! I really appreciate your work🙌🙏🏼❤
This was delicious! Thanks for this recipe! 😊
Fantastic recipe. I really appreciate all your hard work doing the research to share this with us. Everyone in my family couldn't believe this was made at home. My Dad brought it up like 4 times. I'm not exaggerating. LOL It was a hit to say the least. :) It will be made many more times in the future I know.
THANK YOU SO MUCH, Rachel! That is so very kind of you!
I'm really happy your family enjoyed the noodles! If there are any dishes you'd like to see, please let me know and I'll put them on my list to investigate!
Thanks again and please tell your family I say hello!! :)
I love seeing when people support valued TH-camrs when their videos are so helpful. 🙌
(although, unfortunately, Apple actually charges more than what we donate without telling us. It’s a small amount - a fee or a tax or something - for a donation!
They add it on AFTER we agree to an amount.
Apple and / or TH-cam (gmail / google) need to be up front about it before we click pay now)
Thanks for explaining the different noodles and the tip of using baking soda on the beef! I’m doing this over the weekend. Yum!❤
but it makes the beef smell like shit
I agree with you about too oily chow mein. Making it at home with your help will fix this! Thanks Jason.
Really love the style of this video;
Perfect b-roll. Well done team.
Thank you for explaining this in a way that I can understand with barley any prior cooking knowledge. Usually recipes online expect you to already know a lot of things. Thank you for being extremely detailed in your explanation. If I mess up while trying to make this, then it will definitely be my fault completely.
Drop me a line if you need any help!
Jason, I've done your benihana and takeout fried rice, and now these noodles. Man, you really KNOW what you're talking about! The noodles came out fantastic! I've always hated seaseme seed oil in the past, but the way you use it to add that wok char flavour really works wonders!
I'm going to look at your other vids, thanks!
thanks for watching, Wayne! I'm super happy you enjoyed the recipes! :)
Thank you so much for making this, I saw so many tutorials on youtube that didn't emphasize on these details and it always came out nothing like in the resturants.
Dude your recipe is pretty much spot on. I've tried many others, but this blend is simple and lemme say reheated is even better. Half hour prep half hour cooking. I hope to speed it up with repetition. Thank you
This is really well done. Including the preferred ingredients brands and switch out options are key. Most recipes never tell you what brand to buy so you can never make it good. Make some Indian food like how you do this video
Excellent recipe Jason. Thank you so much for sharing. I made it for the first time a few nights ago and it’s on tonight’s menu again already. 😋 🍜
thank you! I'm really glad you enjoyed the noodles!
What wonderful instruction!
Excellent job describing the recipes
thank you!
This recipe is amazing. For the noodles, we didn't have the right type here so instead of using spaghetti we used bucatini, I felt like it worked pretty well for the thickness and absorbing the sauce (although they're less chewy since they're hollow)
A good tip when using regular pasta is using a tiny bit of backing soda in the water.
Another tip to prevent the noodles from becoming soft and over cooked is to rinse them with cold water after you drain them to stop the cooking process immediately
I have been on a mission to make restaurant quality lomein and fried rice. I can’t wait to try these recipes!!! Ty!!
Great video Jason, let people conquer their differences through food. Kudos to you.