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Black Pepper Chicken
Updated:View Post: Black Pepper ChickenBlack pepper chicken is a Chinese American dish that combines a comforting Chinese takeout-style brown sauce with a good amount of black pepper. While you mostly see Chinese cooks using white pepper, this dish highlights the floral aroma and heat…
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The Perfect Turkey Gravy Recipe: 3 Ways
Updated:View Post: The Perfect Turkey Gravy Recipe: 3 WaysUp until now, I’ve never thought about sharing a turkey gravy recipe. At our house, making the gravy for Thanksgiving dinner has always just been the assumed final step of cooking a turkey. You marinate and roast the turkey using…
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Wife Cake (Lao Po Bing, 老婆饼)
Posted:View Post: Wife Cake (Lao Po Bing, 老婆饼)A Wife Cake, or lao po bing (lǎopó bìng in Mandarin or lou po beng—pronounced more like “baeng“—in Cantonese – 老婆饼), is a Chinese dessert with a flaky pastry crust and a sweet winter melon filling. It is a Cantonese…
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The 2023 Holiday Gift Guide
Updated:View Post: The 2023 Holiday Gift GuideIf your mind is turning to holiday gifting, we’ve got a gift guide for every kind of person in your life, whether they be unfailingly practical, a constant traveler, a little artsy, a homebody, or fashion-forward. Check out our other…
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Kitchen and Garden Go-to’s Gift Guide
Updated:View Post: Kitchen and Garden Go-to’s Gift GuideIt’s our Kitchen and Garden gift guide, full of the select items we reach for again and again—for that cooking and/or gardening enthusiast in your life. The Kitchen and Garden Gift Guide Around the holidays, we often get questions from…
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The Host or Hostess’s Gift Guide
Updated:View Post: The Host or Hostess’s Gift GuideHost or Hostess gifts can be so much more than a bottle of wine or other alcohol! A gift for the host of your evening (whatever gender they may be) is a lovely opportunity to preemptively thank them for the…
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Gluten-free Dumplings
Updated:View Post: Gluten-free DumplingsWe finally have a wrapper recipe to make gluten-free dumplings! The dough can be thrown together with a few ingredients from your gluten-free baking arsenal. Rolling them out is easy, and you can pleat the dumplings just as you would…
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Chinese Lemon Chicken
Updated:View Post: Chinese Lemon ChickenChinese lemon chicken is a delicious, refreshing alternative to the usual sweet and sour chicken. Fresh lemons really make this chicken dish, and although our sweet and sour chicken recipe nails it every time, this lemon chicken may just become…
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Siu Mai with Pork & Shrimp
Updated:View Post: Siu Mai with Pork & ShrimpThis siu mai recipe, made with pork and shrimp, can stand up to any siu mai from a Chinese dim sum restaurant! They’ll transport you to those big dim sum halls of old, filled with push carts, the smell of…
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Egg Rolls
Updated:View Post: Egg RollsEgg rolls. They’re the quintessential Chinese takeout food. This easy egg roll recipe is how I remember make them in my parents’ takeout restaurant, when we’d crank out hundreds of egg rolls at a time—albeit with a lot more roast…
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How to Grow Kabocha Squash
Posted:View Post: How to Grow Kabocha SquashKabocha squash is one of our favorite squashes/pumpkins to enjoy in the fall! It has a lovely texture—almost like a cross between butternut squash and chestnuts. The skin is also edible, so you don’t have to peel it. Let’s talk…
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Chinese Postpartum Confinement Porridge (月子粥)
Updated:View Post: Chinese Postpartum Confinement Porridge (月子粥)Today we have another recipe in our postpartum series—a lightly sweet postpartum porridge made with 7 nourishing Chinese ingredients. In Chinese, the porridge is called yuè zi zhōu (月子粥) which roughly translates to postpartum confinement porridge, and it’s especially meant…
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Beef Stir-fry with Vegetables
Updated:View Post: Beef Stir-fry with VegetablesThis Beef Stir-Fry recipe with vegetables is one of those quick and easy dishes that you can throw together in minutes if you prepare properly ahead of time. Tender beef, crunchy vegetables, and that perfectly flavored sauce you expect from…
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Chicken Chow Mein
Updated:View Post: Chicken Chow MeinWe make this delicious chicken chow mein recipe with real Chinese chow mein noodles (while many recipes out there use a soft lo-mein-like noodle), crunchy vegetables, and lots of juicy chicken. The term chicken chow mein has gotten a bit…
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Low Sodium Chinese Food & Cooking
Posted:View Post: Low Sodium Chinese Food & CookingWe’ve gotten lots of questions over the years about how to cook low sodium Chinese food, especially as it pertains to the many fermented and salted ingredients you might encounter, from soy sauce to spicy bean paste. In this post,…
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Mongolian Beef
Updated:View Post: Mongolian BeefOur Mongolian Beef recipe became one of the most popular Woks of Life recipes after we first published it in July 2015, and for good reason! The Origins of Mongolian Beef But first. What exactly are the origins of Mongolian…
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Pickled Daikon
Posted:View Post: Pickled DaikonThis recipe for pickled daikon with carrots is a classic appetizer that was once often served as a freebie in Cantonese restaurants, along with fried peanuts. I would usually let my parents take control of perusing the menu and concentrate…
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Panda Express Super Greens
Updated:View Post: Panda Express Super GreensThis Panda Express Super Greens mix of kale, cabbage, and broccoli is a beloved side from the popular chain, but my mom has been making a version of it for years when we have odds and ends of leafy greens…
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