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Dumplings, Dumplings, Dumplings
Updated:View Post: Dumplings, Dumplings, DumplingsOk, I’m going to be up front with you all here. This post is blatantly just an excuse to post a bunch of pictures I took of lunch the other day. So yeah… Dumplings, Chinese dumplings in Beijing China. We…
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Dark Chocolate Pumpkin Scones
Updated:View Post: Dark Chocolate Pumpkin SconesWe’ve been having a bit of an obsession lately with 2 things: 1) King Arthur Flour’s baking blog Flourish, and 2) pumpkin. We’ve done their pumpkin doughnuts (or at least, a reasonable facsimile involving mini muffin pans and a creative muffin-to-doughnut…
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Stir Fried Water Spinach with Fermented Tofu
Updated:View Post: Stir Fried Water Spinach with Fermented TofuFermented Tofu!? It’s not as weird as it sounds. Especially when it comes to Chinese stir fried water spinach. Stir-Fried green leaf vegetables are an essential part of the Chinese menu, whether back home in the US or here in…
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Pumpkin Mini Muffins
Updated:View Post: Pumpkin Mini MuffinsIt’s October. Which means that although fall officially began on September 22, only now am I having visions of orange leaves swirling in the wind, hay rides, and apple cider. Which made me get really homesick, because back in NJ,…
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Post-Lunch Street Snack
Updated:View Post: Post-Lunch Street SnackWalking down the street the other day, we glimpsed a sign. A loooonnng list of steamed buns, 1 RMB each (about 16 cents). The guy in line in front of us was picking up his lunch. We’d just come out…
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The ONLY Dumpling Recipe You’ll Ever Need
Updated:View Post: The ONLY Dumpling Recipe You’ll Ever NeedWe present: our family’s dumpling recipe. This was the first dumpling recipe we ever published (originally posted on October 13, 2013, just 4 months after we started The Woks of Life). And while we’ve shared many other Chinese dumpling recipes…
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Cold Sesame Noodles, An Old Chinese favorite
Updated:View Post: Cold Sesame Noodles, An Old Chinese favoriteThese cold sesame noodles are quick and easy to make, especially if you make a bigger batch of the sauce and store it in a jar in your refrigerator. Just omit the warm water if you decide to make enough…
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Homemade Bagels Recipe
Updated:View Post: Homemade Bagels RecipeLast week, it was English Muffins. This week, it’s homemade bagels. Why the carb overload, you ask? Well it just so happens that my dad just came back from a weeklong business trip to Finland, and he brought back exactly…
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Hakka Style Chinese Stuffed Tofu
Updated:View Post: Hakka Style Chinese Stuffed TofuMy parents grew up in southern China in the Guangdong province as descendants of the Hakka Chinese – Hak-kâ; 客家. When we were young, we spoke the Hakka dialect at home and the more common Cantonese dialect when out in Chinatown…
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Back to Beijing
Updated:View Post: Back to BeijingThe cat’s out of the bag. I’m back…pulled out of my suburban stupor and thrown back into the traffic lights, honking horns, subways, and skyscrapers of Beijing. The land of dragons, dumplings, and duck. I’ve found a new occupation here…
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Mid-Autumn Festival In Beijing
Updated:View Post: Mid-Autumn Festival In BeijingHere’s how we celebrated Zhongqiujie (The Mid-Autumn Festival) from the Beijing apartment:
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Jen’s Tofu Stir-Fry: Chinese Home Cooking
Updated:View Post: Jen’s Tofu Stir-Fry: Chinese Home CookingBecause she used to request it every time she came to visit, I named this tofu stir-fry after my niece, Jennifer. Now she doesn’t even need to request it; it’s automatically part of the meal when she’s over for dinner.…
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Sun Cakes? No, Moon Cakes!
Updated:View Post: Sun Cakes? No, Moon Cakes!Happy Mid-Autumn Festival! (中秋节快乐！) It’s that time of year again—the weather is just turning a little bit colder, at night the moon is clear and full, and the fancy-yet-slightly-tackily decorated tins of moon cakes start filling the shelves at your…
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Hawaiian Shrimp Fried Rice with Pineapple
Updated:View Post: Hawaiian Shrimp Fried Rice with PineappleCondo vacationing is great if you like to cook while on vacation. And call us crazy, but we like it. The problem with me is that I almost always walk into the store with big ideas, and by the time…
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Grilled Steak and Portobello Salad with Mango Lime Dressing
Updated:View Post: Grilled Steak and Portobello Salad with Mango Lime DressingSummer is drawing to a close. It’s true that we must grudgingly accept this fact, but amidst the back-to-school shopping, the community pool closings, and the return to close-toed shoes, why not one last hurrah before you throw that cover…
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They Ran Out of Lau Lau
Updated:View Post: They Ran Out of Lau LauOn our last day on the Big Island of Hawaii, we were headed for the airport when it occurred to us that we wouldn’t be getting to Maui until 9:00, and that we should probably eat something before getting onto…
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Tortilla-Crusted Scallops with Tropical Fruit Salsa
Updated:View Post: Tortilla-Crusted Scallops with Tropical Fruit SalsaIn keeping with the fact that we bought a whole bag of scallops while on the Big Island of Hawaii—more than we could eat in one meal, here’s yet another scallop recipe. I prepared a much more spartan version of…
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Herbed Citrus Grilled Shrimp and Scallops
Updated:View Post: Herbed Citrus Grilled Shrimp and ScallopsIt’s a sad, yet little known fact that BBQ grills are outlawed within the city limits of Beijing. So for my parents at least, it was a summer without a grill. That means that once we made it to Hawaii,…
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