Name: Beef with Oyster Sauce
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Thailand
Ingredients: 1 tablespoon Shaoxing rice wine or dry sherry; 3 tablespoons groundnut (peanut) oil; 2 teaspoons sesame oil; 2 tablespoons coarsely chopped garlic; 1 tablespoon light soy sauce; 1 tablespoon finely shredded fresh ginger; 450 g (1 lb) lean beef steak; 2 large fresh red Thai chillies, seeded and sliced; 3 tablespoons oyster sauce; 5 spring onions, sliced; 2 teaspoons cornflour

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Ken Hom Cooks Thai

By Ken Hom

Published 2001

About

This classic southern Chinese dish is now a Thai staple; indeed, some Thai cooks maintain that, au contraire, they taught the Chinese how to make it!

Whatever the case, the Thai touch is manifest here and the dish is equally delicious as its Chinese cousin. Remember: oyster sauce is rich but never ‘fishy’.

Ingredients

450 g (1 lb) lean beef steak
1 tablespoon light soy sauce

Method

Put the beef in the freezing compartment of your refrigerator for 20 minutes. This will allow the meat to harden slightly for easier cutting. Then cut it into thin slices 5 cm (2 in) long and