Stir fry that for about thirty seconds or until it's just beginning to char, then swirl in a half tablespoon liaojiu aka Shaoxing wine… nice mix, and then take it out.
And you also want them to cook nice and brown on one side where you can get a nice char, and flip them over, let them cook on the other side to temp which is 165 degrees.
So once you've got this pan nicely deglazed, get all those flavours off the bottom, you want that nice char flavour from the onions, and all the spices you've got going on in there in the tomato paste.
This is more than enough time to evacuate most buildings, and once the smoke has settled, charred panels can be swapped out — unlike melted steel beams.
They were charred spirals of what appeared to be wood. The men dared her to take a bite and, when she did, she discovered that beneath the smoke-blackened surface was unsalted corn bread.