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Shou Zhua Bing (Crispy Chinese Pancakes)
Updated:View Post: Shou Zhua Bing (Crispy Chinese Pancakes)It’s been five months since we left Beijing, and while we’re so happy to be back in the States (and living with clean air), what we really miss is the food. To help ease the nostalgia and withdrawal symptoms, we…
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Orange Pasta
Updated:View Post: Orange PastaThis orange pasta is a delicious change-up from the typical pasta dishes you’re used to seeing at the dinner table. It also happens to be very easy to make and a great choice for a mid-week meal with a nice salad. After…
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Chengdu Temple Fair, Chinese New Year Celebration
Updated:View Post: Chengdu Temple Fair, Chinese New Year CelebrationWith the Spring Festival/Chinese New Year celebrations coming to a close, we’ve been reminiscing a bit about our time in China. While our celebration lasted only a day here in the U.S., it was at least a weeklong affair back in China,…
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Big Plate Chicken (Chinese Da Pan Ji) with Noodles
Updated:View Post: Big Plate Chicken (Chinese Da Pan Ji) with NoodlesFor readers who’ve been to or lived in some parts of China, a big dish of “big plate chicken” (大盘鸡, da pan ji) is like coming home. It’s one of those dishes that has caught on like wildfire in larger…
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Soy Sauce Chicken
Updated:View Post: Soy Sauce ChickenSoy Sauce Chicken or “See Yao Gai” is a quintessential Cantonese favorite. You can find it hanging under heat lamps in many Chinatown restaurant windows, near the poached chickens, roast ducks, and roast pork. All have their merits, but a Soy Sauce Chicken…
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Chinese Swiss Roll
Updated:View Post: Chinese Swiss RollYou may have seen these light-as-air Chinese swiss rolls in a Chinese bakery near you. Not to be mistaken with traditional Swiss rolls, we wanted to make the lighter, Asian-style Chinese Swiss roll recipe. It’s composed of a very light and fluffy…
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Veggie Pizza and Kaitlin’s Perfect Pizza Method!
Updated:View Post: Veggie Pizza and Kaitlin’s Perfect Pizza Method!Back in good old 2014, my parents and sister posted a recipe for foolproof pizza dough from the Beijing homestead. There you will find a perfectly lovely recipe for a Wild Mushroom & Garlic White Pizza and funny reflections on…
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Picking a Puppy
Updated:View Post: Picking a PuppyEver since this little pup came into our lives, we’ve taken to writing about the subject on this here blog. If you need to catch up, check out our first post on the matter here. Today, we’re going to talk…
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Buddha’s Delight (Vegetarian Lo Han Jai)
Updated:View Post: Buddha’s Delight (Vegetarian Lo Han Jai)Buddha’s delight, or luo han zhai 罗汉斋 (Mandarin), or lo han jai (Cantonese), is a vegetarian dish well-known in Chinese and Buddhist cuisine. The dish is traditionally consumed by Buddhist monks (who are vegetarians), but it has also grown in popularity throughout the world…
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Chinese Braised Fish (Hong Shao Yu)
Updated:View Post: Chinese Braised Fish (Hong Shao Yu)A Chinese New Year is not a New Year without fish, and you MUST have two of them: one for New Year’s Eve and one for Chinese New Year’s Day. That’s why, on the eve of Chinese New Year, we’re…
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Turnip Cake (Chinese Lo Bak Go)
Updated:View Post: Turnip Cake (Chinese Lo Bak Go)This savory turnip cake (sometimes called radish cake), or lo bak go in Cantonese, is a very traditional dish often served at dim sum houses, and when I was a kid, it always showed up on the table on Chinese New…
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Vegan Char Siu Bao (Baked Buns)
Updated:View Post: Vegan Char Siu Bao (Baked Buns)Vegan char siu bao or cha siu bao (i.e. vegan roast pork buns). Does that even make any sense? Well, yes and no. Obviously, there is NO pork in these buns. But they taste remarkably similar to the traditional pork…
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Pea Tips Stir-fry
Updated:View Post: Pea Tips Stir-fryPea Tips or pea leaves are gaining popularity as more people are informed of their sweet, delicious existence and search for them on Chinese restaurant menus. We’ve already covered a recipe for these, but we wanted to do a redux version…
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Cantonese Style Braised Pork Belly with Arrowhead Root
Updated:View Post: Cantonese Style Braised Pork Belly with Arrowhead RootAs we mentioned in our Chinese New Year Menu post (2015), Braised Pork Belly with Arrowhead Root or cí gū mèn nan ròu in Mandarin 慈菇焖腩肉 (the dish’s name really rolls off the tongue, doesn’t it?) is a must-have dish…
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Chinese New Year Menu
Updated:View Post: Chinese New Year MenuIn China, Chinese New Year is celebrated with travel, travel, and more travel. Usually, this is due to the fact everyone working in the big cities travel back to their home towns and villages to reunite with their families, eat good…
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Coconut Curry Chicken
Updated:View Post: Coconut Curry ChickenThis Coconut Curry Chicken recipe is beyond easy. You can literally start cooking before the prep work even starts. I don’t know why it took us this long to publish our coconut curry chicken recipe. It’s one of my absolute…
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Salt and Pepper Squid
Updated:View Post: Salt and Pepper SquidWhen I perfected the recipe for fried calamari, it was a total no-brainer to make this Cantonese Salt and Pepper Squid. Prepared in a similar manner to Cantonese Salt & Pepper Pork Chops, the fried pieces of calamari are tossed…
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Butternut Squash Lasagna
Updated:View Post: Butternut Squash LasagnaThis butternut squash lasagna is the perfect winter food. It’s warm, cheesy, and comforting…awesome for curling up on the couch in front of the TV with your dinner. The way I look at it, most of your run-of-the-mill lasagna is…
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