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Wok Fried Peanuts / How to Fry Peanuts
Posted:View Post: Wok Fried Peanuts / How to Fry PeanutsYou’ll see these fried peanuts often in Cantonese restaurants, served in small dishes around a Lazy Susan along with pots of tea. They’re the perfect little appetizer while you wait for your meal to arrive. Wok fried peanuts are an…
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Chicken Satay
Posted:View Post: Chicken SatayChicken Satay is a delicious alternative to your standard saucy Thai curries, with chicken marinated in a positively potent mixture of red curry paste and coconut. We sear the skewers to perfection, and serve them up with a tasty peanut…
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Duck Noodle Soup
Updated:View Post: Duck Noodle SoupDuck noodle soup is a simple, yet extremely flavorful dish you can make with very little time. It’s also a great way to use up leftover Cantonese roast duck. For a quick meal, keep leftover roast duck in your freezer,…
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Lo Mein Noodles & How to Cook Them
Updated:View Post: Lo Mein Noodles & How to Cook ThemLo mein noodles are one of the most recognizable types of Chinese noodles in the U.S. Today, we’ll teach you how to cook lo mein noodles properly, so that they’re perfect—not overly starchy, sticky, soggy, dry, or undercooked. We also…
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Multigrain Bread
Posted:View Post: Multigrain BreadNothing is quite as daunting as walking into the kitchen with the expectation of churning out bakery-quality bread. However, this deliciously soft multigrain bread recipe will help you do just that! We make our multigrain bread with our favorite homemade…
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How to Grow Chinese Vegetables
Updated:View Post: How to Grow Chinese VegetablesAfter its launch last year, we’re bringing back our How to Grow Chinese Vegetables series! (If you’d like to check out previous posts, head to our Garden/Farm How-To section!) Each month, we’ll publish a comprehensive growing guide for a different…
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Chicken Fried Rice
Updated:View Post: Chicken Fried RiceThis is an easy, classic chicken fried rice recipe you can make for a quick dinner on any weeknight. It’s also heavier on the chicken than you might be used to when getting takeout. Limited by the low prices they need…
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Cooking with Garlic: Everything You Need to Know
Posted:View Post: Cooking with Garlic: Everything You Need to KnowAfter developing recipes for 10 years now, I feel like I’ve gained a better intuition when it comes to cooking with garlic in just about any kind of dish or flavor combination. It’s also worth stating outright that Chinese food…
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The Woks of LIfe Cookbook Nominated for a James Beard Award(!!!)
Posted:View Post: The Woks of LIfe Cookbook Nominated for a James Beard Award(!!!)In yet another pinch-me moment surrounding our cookbook (First pinch-me moment: the book we’ve worked on for years gets published. Second: getting amazing feedback from some of our favorite creators. See: Deb Perelman of Smitten Kitchen, J. Kenji Lopez-Alt, Andrew…
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Orange Chicken
Updated:View Post: Orange ChickenThe allure of Orange Chicken is all in its name—crunchy pieces of shallow-fried chicken tossed in an aromatic orange sauce with a little sweetness and tang. This restaurant-quality recipe has been refined and updated over the years! We originally posted…
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A Trip to Arches and Canyonlands National Parks
Updated:View Post: A Trip to Arches and Canyonlands National ParksToday, we’re talking about Arches and Canyonlands, the national parks of Eastern Utah. Ever since Kaitlin and I saw Zion, Bryce Canyon, and Capitol Reef back in 2017, I’ve wanted to return to the eastern part of the state to…
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How to Make Pressed Tofu (豆腐干)
Updated:View Post: How to Make Pressed Tofu (豆腐干)This pressed tofu (dòufu gān – 豆腐干), is a necessary recipe for our readers who live far away from an Asian market. Firm tofu is (somewhat) widely available, thank goodness, but as of this writing, you can only find pressed…
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Raising Ducks: Our Experience!
Posted:View Post: Raising Ducks: Our Experience!Today, we’re going to talk about our experience over the past year raising ducks: brooding ducklings, building a duck run, how they’re different from our chickens, how many eggs they lay, and what we do with all those duck eggs!…
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Milk Bread
Updated:View Post: Milk BreadThis Asian milk bread recipe is a triumph. I’m not exaggerating when I tell you that for months, we’ve searched, tested, and failed time and time again to nail down a perfect recipe for soft, buttery, fluffy milk bread. Until…
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Chinese Birthday Traditions
Posted:View Post: Chinese Birthday TraditionsChinese birthday traditions usually boil down to the most well-known one—eating noodles on your birthday as a symbol of longevity. But there’s so much more to celebrating your birthday in Chinese culture. Let’s explore this topic! There are some worthy…
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Three Color Steamed Eggs (三色蒸水蛋)
Posted:View Post: Three Color Steamed Eggs (三色蒸水蛋)Three Color Steamed Egg (known in Chinese as sān sè zhēng shuǐ dàn – 三色蒸水蛋) is a recent discovery for me (and for a couple of us, a rediscovery). While newer to me, it’s a beloved and well known dish…
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Kung Pao Shrimp
Updated:View Post: Kung Pao ShrimpThis Kung Pao Shrimp is a symphony of flavors, accentuated by the crunch of peanuts and the spice of Sichuan peppercorns and dried red chilies. It’s delicious with rice, and disappeared fast when we cooked and photographed it! A telltale…
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Thai Red Curry Chicken
Updated:View Post: Thai Red Curry ChickenThis Thai red curry chicken recipe is a restaurant-quality dish with a great variety of flavors and textures. Serve with steamed rice, and dinner is set. This is also a great meal prep recipe, as leftovers are easy to heat…
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