My daughter's friend visited us for dinner the other night. It was great fun, because she brought some dumplings she and her mother had made (Chinese dumplings - the family is from Southern China) and wanted to show us how...
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I grew up in New England, and when I ordered chicken wings at a Chinese Takeout place, I would get the crispy ones with all 3 parts attached. When I moved down here to Texas, I tried ordering chicken wings...
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Steamed Taro with Chopped Salted Chiles This is one of Fuchsia Dunlop's favorite recipes. Ingredients 1 1/4 pounds taro 1/4 teaspoon salt 5 tablespoons peanut oil or melted lard 2 tablespoons chopped salted chiles (duo la jiao) 1 teaspoon black...
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Photograph from iStockphoto.com General Tso's Chicken | serves 2 to 3 This Taiwanese version of General Tso's chicken is "rather different from the one you're used to," says Fuchsia Dunlop, Chinese food expert and author of Revolutionary Chinese Cookbook:...
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These little slips of purported wisdom might be as inaccurate as they are inauthentically Chinese (they're a purely American invention, after all). Still, we all love them anyway—who hasn't tucked a particularly delightful one into a wallet or pocketbook after...
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I'm on a big egg foo young kick right now. Everyone does it a little different. Nothing like a St. Paul sandwich :) What are your "go-to's" and "never agains"?...
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