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Super Easy Grilled Ribs
Updated:View Post: Super Easy Grilled RibsThese super easy grilled ribs are a departure from your typical rib recipe. Why? You cut your ribs into individual pieces before marinating and grilling. The result is an extra juicy, all-around crispy, charred rib that’s like getting that coveted…
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Zucchini Stir-fry with Chicken
Updated:View Post: Zucchini Stir-fry with ChickenThis zucchini stir-fry with chicken is SO tasty, you’ll want to keep zucchini in the fridge all the time to make it! In this recipe, we share a simple tip to maintain a crisp (not mushy) texture on zucchini after…
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How to Grow Chinese Eggplant
Updated:View Post: How to Grow Chinese EggplantHere’s our third installment of our How to Grow Chinese Vegetables series: how to grow Chinese eggplant. We actually prefer Chinese (or Japanese) eggplants over regular globe eggplants. Not only is the skin thinner and less tough, they also have…
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Spicy Cold Tofu: 5 Minute Recipe
Updated:View Post: Spicy Cold Tofu: 5 Minute RecipeThis spicy cold tofu recipe requires no cooking and less than 10 ingredients. It’s a super tasty dish to add to any Chinese spread (or have as a quick meal on its own). Due to its no-cook nature, this recipe…
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27 Of Our Favorite Tofu Recipes
Posted:View Post: 27 Of Our Favorite Tofu RecipesBeautiful tofu! It comes in all shapes, sizes, and textures, and we can’t get enough of it. Today, we’ve rounded up a list of our favorite tofu recipes from across the blog. These are some of our best recipes—some go…
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Summer Garden Tour 2022!
Updated:View Post: Summer Garden Tour 2022!Back in early June, we posted a spring garden tour at The Woks of Life‘s new HQ. Spring was incredibly busy, and things didn’t let up much over the course of June and July. But now that it’s August, we’ve…
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Pressed Tofu (Plain or Spiced)
Updated:View Post: Pressed Tofu (Plain or Spiced)Pressed tofu or dòufu gān (豆腐干), is a lesser known ingredient to non-Chinese cooks, but it’s featured in many of our family’s favorite recipes! In this quick article, we’ll tell you everything you need to know about this ingredient—how it’s…
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Things to do in Newport, RI: Mansions, Fried Clams, and New England Prep
Updated:View Post: Things to do in Newport, RI: Mansions, Fried Clams, and New England PrepKaitlin here. It’s been a while since we’ve released a travel guide hasn’t it? But we once again find ourselves on a Woks of Life family vacation. This time we’re coming to you from Newport! Last summer, while we were…
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Vietnamese Rice Noodle Salad with Chicken
Posted:View Post: Vietnamese Rice Noodle Salad with ChickenSummer is in full swing, and that means swampy weather, sweaty commutes to and from work, and very little desire on the part of this food blogger to stand over the stove for an extended period of time. Enter: This…
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Beef with Oyster Sauce
Updated:View Post: Beef with Oyster SauceThis beef with oyster sauce recipe is simple, savory, and delicious with steamed rice. Served over a bed of blanched Chinese broccoli, it’s also a full and balanced meal! The Magic of Oyster Sauce Oyster sauce may sound like it…
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Fried Smelt (Cantonese Salt & Pepper style!)
Updated:View Post: Fried Smelt (Cantonese Salt & Pepper style!)Little smelt fish get the Cantonese salt and pepper (white pepper, that is) treatment in this salt and pepper fried smelt recipe. We can’t resist the masterful light and crispy batter here, and the aromatic yet simple spices that are…
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Yellow Lantern Chili Sauce
Updated:View Post: Yellow Lantern Chili SauceWhen you crack open a jar of yellow lantern chili sauce, the heat is immediately evident—prickling your nose and reaching up into your sinuses, accompanied by the promising aroma of pickled garlic. What is the Hainan yellow lantern chili? The…
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Seitan & Wheat Gluten
Updated:View Post: Seitan & Wheat GlutenYou may have heard of seitan as one of those new age vegan/vegetarian ingredients. However, it’s been around in Chinese and Buddhist cuisines for centuries. Known in Chinese as miànjīn (面筋), it believed to have been invented in ancient China as…
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Tofu Knots
Updated:View Post: Tofu KnotsTofu knots, or bǎiyè jié (百叶节), are an interesting ingredient that highlight one of the key aspects of Chinese cuisine that isn’t as strongly emphasized in Western cuisines: texture. These little knots add a delightful change in texture in soups…
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How to Grow Napa Cabbage
Updated:View Post: How to Grow Napa CabbageWe’re back with the next installment of our How to Grow Chinese Vegetables series. This time, we’re talking about how to grow napa cabbage, a versatile vegetable that’s great for long-term storage, pickling, fermenting, stir-frying, braising, adding to soups, making…
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Spicy Stir-fried Thai Basil Clams
Posted:View Post: Spicy Stir-fried Thai Basil ClamsThis recipe for spicy Thai basil clams is a tasty take on stir-fried clams that’s great with a cold beer. You can use littlenecks or cherrystone clams here, and we have a great method for purging them to make sure…
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Vegetable Ramen Noodle Stir-fry
Posted:View Post: Vegetable Ramen Noodle Stir-fryVegetable Ramen is a simple and easy-to-make meatless Monday meal all instant ramen lovers must try. The recipe is vegetarian and vegan, but you could also add your favorite protein—chicken, shrimp, pork, beef, or tofu! (Just click on those links…
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Taiwanese Beef Rolls
Posted:View Post: Taiwanese Beef RollsTaiwanese beef rolls consist of thinly sliced, aromatic braised beef, wrapped with sweet hoisin sauce, fresh scallion, and cucumber in a crispy, flaky scallion pancake. If that description doesn’t have you immediately interested, I don’t know what will! A Beloved…
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