[jyl]

One of my projects for this fall is to start learning how to cook Chinese food.

So far I have produced a passable hot and sour soup and an edible chicken with honey-roasted walnuts. Well, that's progress.

But I'm having trouble stabilizing a round-bottom wok on my gas range. I tried one of those stamped steel wok rings ($2.39 at the local Asian supermarket) and it slides right off the grate. If I remove the grate and place the wok ring directly on the range top, the burner goes out. Frigidaire does not make a special "wok ring grate" for my range, as the higher-end ranges (Wolf, DCS, etc) do. I think I need a wok ring with notches to "lock" it to the grate.

Has anyone seen a product like that?

More generally, any other tips, thoughts, lessons having to do with Chinese cooking would be appreciated.

(Other than making dumplings and setting up a hot pot meal, I know zip about cooking the food that I have been eating all my life - this seems lame, so I am doing something about it.)