Deep-frying is one of the most interesting cooking techniques at your disposal. Deep-fried food has a crisp exterior and moist interior, but unlike Western cooking, a deep-fried ingredient may have neither started in the fryer nor finished in it, but simply passed through to change its texture in some way. Dishes may be braised, steamed, dried, marinated and coated either before or after frying, or even double-fried. We use these methods in the restaurant, and recipes demon-strating these multiple cooking techniques follow.