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Carrot Ginger Pork Buns, Two Ways (Bao Zi)
Updated:View Post: Carrot Ginger Pork Buns, Two Ways (Bao Zi)Before we start, I’d like to give you a glimpse into the future. In the future, you’re lifting the cover off of a pan and seeing the plump, happy, soft Chinese pork buns that you’ve just made with your own…
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Garlic Baby Bok Choy Stir Fry
Updated:View Post: Garlic Baby Bok Choy Stir FryThis simple stir fried garlic baby bok choy dish is the way we tend to prepare baby bok choy almost every week. It’s so quick, easy, and healthy. Summer—and with it, grill season—is fast approaching, and I like this garlic…
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Chicken with Snow Peas Stir-fry
Updated:View Post: Chicken with Snow Peas Stir-fryEdible pea pods are a delicious crunchy vegetable great for a side or even a main dish and this chicken with snow peas stir-fry is no exception! Snow peas are more commonly associated with Chinese cuisine and in my opinion…
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Roasted Rack of Lamb w/ Turkish Spices, Yogurt Sauce, and Rice
Updated:View Post: Roasted Rack of Lamb w/ Turkish Spices, Yogurt Sauce, and RiceHaving been in Turkey for just one day (read more about it here!), I obviously can’t say that I’ve experienced even a fraction of the breadth and variety of Turkish cuisine. Having stayed mostly in the Old City when I was…
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Braised Oxtail Noodles
Updated:View Post: Braised Oxtail NoodlesAs ABC (American Born Chinese) kids living in a predominantly Caucasian town, Sarah and I have always had clashes of East meets West. There was always the cliched “ching chong” ridiculousness from classmates and the questions of “do you eat…
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Sticky Rice Hashbrowns (Ci Fan Gao/粢饭糕)
Updated:View Post: Sticky Rice Hashbrowns (Ci Fan Gao/粢饭糕)They just don’t make ‘em like they used to. Or so I thought. These ci fan gao, or “rice hash browns,” as Sarah likes to call them, were part of my childhood—a beloved street food that I bought for just…
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Fried Chicken w/ Xinjiang Spices
Updated:View Post: Fried Chicken w/ Xinjiang SpicesOn our recent trip to Xi’an, we were reminded of and introduced to China’s rich varieties of Islamic cuisine—specifically the cooking of the Uyghur people. Chuan(r), or kebabs usually made with lamb, for example, might just be one of the…
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Street Food Adventures in Xi’An
Updated:View Post: Street Food Adventures in Xi’AnI’ve become rather cynical when it comes to traveling in China. You can only be shoved onto a packed bus or shamelessly cut in a ticket line so many times before you want to just call the whole thing off and…
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“Chock Full o’ Nuts” Chocolate Chip Cookies
Updated:View Post: “Chock Full o’ Nuts” Chocolate Chip CookiesChocolate chip cookies. I can wax poetic on the iconic status of this hallowed treat, contemplate the abundant research conducted on ratios of white sugar to brown sugar, the merits of cake flour vs. all-purpose, and the infamous “to chill…
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Triple Layer Berry Cake w/ Lemon Cream and Thyme
Updated:View Post: Triple Layer Berry Cake w/ Lemon Cream and ThymeUpdates, everyone! 1. I’m back in the US for a couple weeks, which means my greatest concerns at the moment include: a) when is the plumber going to get here to fix the leak in the tub? b) When is…
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Corn & Goat Cheese Empanadas
Updated:View Post: Corn & Goat Cheese EmpanadasWhen I was in college, and free food was often the operative lure to entice students to come to any and every campus event, we would sidestep the usual pizza route and order these vegetarian (and totally awesome) corn &…
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Homemade Chinese Sesame Peanut Brittle
Updated:View Post: Homemade Chinese Sesame Peanut BrittleOur Beijing ayi (ayi literally means “aunt,” but it’s a familiar term given by young kids to any older lady, or to ladies working in childcare, cooking, or cleaning professions) comes to our house once a week to help us…
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Warm Salmon Salad Nicoise
Updated:View Post: Warm Salmon Salad NicoiseI LOVE Niçoise Salads (Salads Niçoise?)—a brilliant combination of lettuce, tomatoes, olives, canned tuna, eggs, green beans, and potatoes. I love the big blocks of color and all the different textures. It’s everything I want in a big dinner salad:…
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Easy Roasted Cauliflower Stir-Fry
Updated:View Post: Easy Roasted Cauliflower Stir-FryThis Easy Roasted Cauliflower Stir-fry is inspired by a dish that we order at many restaurants around Beijing. When we first arrived here, we immediately set to trying as many restaurants as we could. Many of the Hunan, Sichuan, and “jack-of-all-trades” restaurants…
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Chicken Pan-Fried Noodles (Gai See Chow Mein)
Updated:View Post: Chicken Pan-Fried Noodles (Gai See Chow Mein)If you frequent any good dim sum restaurants, you’re probably familiar with this chicken pan-fried noodles dish, called “Gai See Chow Mein” in Cantonese. We always order Gai See Chow Mein when I meet my sisters and all of our…
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Mango Pie Recipe with Citrus Whipped Cream
Updated:View Post: Mango Pie Recipe with Citrus Whipped CreamA few weeks ago, I was spending a rare afternoon moment channel surfing in front of the TV. We have 900 Chinese channels here in Beijing, and 10 English ones, so…this is what channel surfing at our place usually looks like: CNN:…
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Ratatouille Baked Eggs
Updated:View Post: Ratatouille Baked EggsWith Mother’s Day coming up in a few days (mark your calendars, forgetful fools! May 11th), we had to post a Mother’s Day Brunch recipe. I remember when we would make breakfast in bed for our mom growing up. We’d get…
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Fast Dubu Kimchi (Tofu w/ Stir-fried Kimchi & Pork)
Updated:View Post: Fast Dubu Kimchi (Tofu w/ Stir-fried Kimchi & Pork)In the field of evolutionary psychology, researchers have found that conflict among siblings is often the result of a basic drive for each sibling to carve out their own niche within the family. To put it in other terms, a…
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