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Orange Five-Spice Roast Goose and Potatoes
Updated:View Post: Orange Five-Spice Roast Goose and PotatoesThe flavors in this roast goose recipe are similar to what you’d find in a marinade for a Cantonese roast goose (orange peel, ginger, soy, five spice, and garlic), which also mirror classic holiday flavors. Make them with goose fat potatoes…
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15-Minute Chinese Hot Oil Noodles (You Po Mian)
Updated:View Post: 15-Minute Chinese Hot Oil Noodles (You Po Mian)These 15-Minute Chinese Hot Oil Noodles are beyond easy to make. Here’s the basic gist: You boil some noodles and veggies in the same pot, throw them in a bowl with some seasonings, pour a couple tablespoons of hot oil over…
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The Woks of Life Christmas Wishlist
Updated:View Post: The Woks of Life Christmas WishlistCan you believe it took us about 12 years of disastrous experimentation with cheap cheese graters before we finally splurged on a Microplane? (One of our top kitchen purchases of all time, by the way.) It’s this and other follies that result in…
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Easy Fish Tofu Soup
Updated:View Post: Easy Fish Tofu SoupEvery time we come across a dish we love, we can’t wait to share it with our readers here on TWOL. Today, I would like to share our newfound love: this easy Fish and Tofu Soup (白菜豆腐鱼汤) or literally, Chinese…
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Cantonese-Style Ginger Scallion Lobster
Updated:View Post: Cantonese-Style Ginger Scallion LobsterIf you’ve ever had the privilege of attending a 10-course Chinese Wedding Banquet meal, you know what Cantonese ginger scallion lobster looks and tastes like. It is one of my favorite courses at a Chinese banquet, and one of the best ways to enjoy fresh…
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Sausage Balls 2 Ways
Updated:View Post: Sausage Balls 2 WaysDisclaimer: This recipe is not healthy. It’s basically fat city. #whocares #itsChristmas Yes, sausage balls aren’t exactly the healthiest of holiday appetizers. But what better time to indulge in a few of these awkwardly named treats than this time of…
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Matcha Bacon Sugar Cookies
Updated:View Post: Matcha Bacon Sugar CookiesIt’s Christmas cookie season again everyone! We have a really crazy cookie recipe for you today, as well as an awesome giveaway, in which there will be 2 (count ’em, 2!)…winners. So Matcha Bacon Sugar Cookies. Is that a good…
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Sticky Rice Mushroom Shumai w/ Homemade Wrappers (Vegan)
Updated:View Post: Sticky Rice Mushroom Shumai w/ Homemade Wrappers (Vegan)This homemade mushroom shumai recipe is super easy to make. Today, we’re going with a vegetarian version made with sticky rice, mushrooms, and peas–perfect when dipped in a bit of soy sauce and chili oil. Shumai (shaomai in Mandarin and siu mai in Cantonese), according to…
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Dim Sum Steamed Spare Ribs with Black Beans
Updated:View Post: Dim Sum Steamed Spare Ribs with Black BeansSteamed Spare Ribs with Black Bean sauce is, in my humble opinion, one of the best and well-known dim sum dishes. We always looked forward to it when we would go to Chinatown for dim sum as kids. That was, uh…a while…
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Chicken Peanut Stew
Updated:View Post: Chicken Peanut StewI find that a lot of chicken stews are quite uninspired. Beef gets all the good recipes when it comes to stew, but what about the humble chicken? When you think “chicken,” “stew” isn’t the first thing to come to…
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Dim Sum Tripe Stew
Updated:View Post: Dim Sum Tripe StewDim Sum Tripe Stew is one of those dishes that you either love or won’t touch with a ten foot pole. Guess which category I’m in? Read on and you’ll find out! Dim sum tripe stew, or niu za (牛雜), is pronounced phonetically…
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Cinnamon Sugar Apple Fritters
Updated:View Post: Cinnamon Sugar Apple FrittersEvery year, our NJ town turns into somewhat of a hub for everyone in the tristate area to pick apples and frolic in pumpkin patches. Barring the mildly irritating amounts of traffic, it’s actually a pretty delightful place to be–one chief…
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Twice Cooked Pork
Updated:View Post: Twice Cooked PorkTwice Cooked Pork, or hui guo rou (回鍋肉), is a Sichuan dish of spicy seared pork belly that’s way too famous to ignore and too delicious not to share. If you’ve never tried it, you NEED to make this recipe. It is simply and unequivocally delicious! Yes, Shanghai Braised…
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Cheesy Kale Sweet Potato Tart
Updated:View Post: Cheesy Kale Sweet Potato TartRemember when kale was an under-the-radar vegetable–the woody stemmed leaves making an appearance only as decoration for the honey hams and turkey breasts in your supermarket’s deli case? Kale has experienced an extreme resurgence in the last couple years…coming out of…
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Savory Maple Corn Muffins w/ Sage, Butternut Squash, Bacon, and Cheese
Updated:View Post: Savory Maple Corn Muffins w/ Sage, Butternut Squash, Bacon, and CheeseSometimes you’re going about life, minding your own business and following your daily routine…when you have a thought. A thought that’s so utterly beyond the standard procedure that it demands attention be paid. Before you know it, your ho-hum corn muffin recipe is transformed into…
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Grandpa’s Perfect Thanksgiving Turkey Recipe
Updated:View Post: Grandpa’s Perfect Thanksgiving Turkey RecipeThis is our grandpa’s perfect Thanksgiving Turkey recipe, which we make every single year without fail. Why grandpa’s recipe? Our grandfather was a professional chef and resort hotel roast cook, so he knew a thing or two about roasting meat…
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Back From Beijing
Updated:View Post: Back From BeijingFor those of you who’ve been following us for a while, you may have noticed that lately, our recipes appear to be coming out of our American kitchen, rather than the broom closet that was the kitchen in Beijing. You’re eyes aren’t…
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Thoughts From Shanghai
Updated:View Post: Thoughts From ShanghaiThe first time I went to Shanghai, it was because I had failed. In my junior year of high school, I was rejected in the final round of interviews for a select academic summer program for high-performing high school students. Rather than spend…
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