Lettuce with Oyster Sauce

Although my mother worked at a full-time job, leaving at seven in the morning and returning around five-thirty in the evening, she always managed to put on a three- or four-dish Chinese meal every night. At the time, I took it all for granted, as children tend to do in regard to their parents’ care. As an adult, I learned to appreciate what she had been doing for the family all those years.

Many of the dishes she made were simple home-cooked recipes that took literally minutes. Here