Learning to cook Chinese food?!

Well to really have the flavor of a wok you need to cook at extremely high temps, which aren't possible on a typical home stove.

You can cook with it yes, but it won't give you that flavor your after no matter how much soy sauce you use lol.

If you have a Charcoal grill you can use that and it will be pretty close. I say Charcoal because they get way hotter than propane. Just try to get the coal in a small concentrated pile and as close to the grates as possible.

You want to use peanut oil.....stay away from dipping oils like Olive oil. Also stay away from butter and other solid fats.

Soy Sauce, Ginger, Green Onions, Chili Oil or Flakes, and Plum Sauce are very common easy to find ingredients for chinese food.

Thai is pretty similar but its much more complex and difficult to do. Fish Sauce and Tamerind Paste are common for most thai dishes.

I would recommend just making chow mein. Its pretty easy to do and since it doesn't have meat its pretty inexpensive. Plus its something everyone likes.

It gets most of its flavor from Sesame Oil (not for actually cooking, but for finishing) and Soy Sauce. Everything else is pretty easy.

ingredients are whatever you feel like, utensils for cooking some tongs MAYBE, really anything to move the ingredients around.

Woks are meant to be cooked on HIGH HEAT THE ENTIRE TIME and you stir them really fast, thats just the way that they are designed and the style of cooking.

u should have a spatula, soy sauce( like the golden bridge kind), garlic, oil, salt, oyster sauce(yummy wen u marinate meat), black bean paste ^^, chicken broth/powder...