Oyster sauce. need advice

i've never tasted oyster sause on its own, but it won't make your dishes taste fishy. when making stir-fry i use it a lot. its like a salty seasoning that helps the flavor. my husband uses it in his fried rice and when you make minute chicken oyster sause is a main ingrediant. mix it with a little soy sauce (shoyu) and sugar. fry some cut up chicken pieces (floured) in oil and when the chicken is almost fully cooked put the sauce on. sprinkle with green onions and sesame seeds (optional) and serve over rice. i know i have a Chinese cook book with beef broccoli in it, but i can't find it right now, depending on the restaurant and the cook, the recipe can be different, but its a basic soy sauce recipe. here are some links i found http://www.cooks.com/rec/search/0,1-0,beef_broccoli_stir_fry,FF.html

Sure sure no problem! Just sharing my ideas and of course sharing with my fellows here have been doing all this time in their food. Yes if you want to thicken the sauce you can put some cornstarch but always balance the flavor so try to taste it once in a while while cooking it. I think cornstarch have the tendency to make the taste bland, so balance it out. enjoy your meal!

Hi I'm not a master of any dishes, in fact I didn't even took formal culinary lessons. But living in an oriental cultured society I can give you some tips about chinese dishes. Basically, most oyster sauce doesn't really have fishy taste in it. And if your brand does, put some ginger to your dish because basically ginger can somehow remove the fishy smell in dishes. And actually it has a nice blend of sweet and salty with some savory taste in it. I have some suggestions for your beef dish if you don't mind. If you will use the oyster sauce for your beef stir, try to use sesame oil as your oil to have a good smell to the beef, then also put some garlic and stir it with the sesame oil. Ok the oyster sauce can tend to be too flavorful so you can add small amounts of water then have some trial and error when tasting the sauce. If you feel it lacks some flavor put some more oyster sauce or salt, if you think it's too flavorful try to add small amounts of water. And to add some flavor put some "5 spices" to your dish, with this spice you can have the oriental smell you need for the dish. Then when your dish is done put some finishing touch of using sesame seeds on top when serving it.