Chinese cooking is a labor of love, emphasis on labor. All that chopping and frying, followed by the vigorous scrubbing of pans and woks to clean them. It’s why I typically prefer takeout. This ...
When James Beard award-winning food writer Kevin Pang got an email from his parents, telling him to check out a video, he promptly ignored it, as people occasionally do with parental media ...
Seven decades ago, long before Fu Pei-mei became a beloved authority on Chinese cooking, she was struggling to make jiaozi. These boiled dumplings from northern China were her husband’s favorite and ...
Michelle T. King's new book is about a pioneering cook who brought Chinese food to the world, Fu Pei-mei. NPR's Scott Simon talks with King about her and about the book, "Chop Fry Watch Learn." ...
“I would try your local Chinese takeaway shop, but I just know it won’t be as good as the one I go to”, complained a friend on a Friday night. The undying loyalty to your local takeaway rivals little ...
When James Beard award-winning food writer Kevin Pang got an email from his parents, telling him to check out a video, he promptly ignored it, as people occasionally do with parental media ...
When I was younger and people asked what I ate for dinner, I struggled to answer. “It’s Chinese food, but not what you eat at Chinese restaurants,” I’d say. Dinners usually looked like a bowl of rice ...
Los Angeles’s regional Chinese food scene just keeps getting better with the addition of a Guizhou specialist ...