When I was 11, my Irish American stepdad came home with a $10 wok and a used paperback Chinese cookbook. Chinese food was a treat reserved for the rare occasions when we ate out at local Cantonese ...

Food from your favourite local Chinese takeaway might be comforting and familiar, but due to the speed it’s cooked – with a ...

They sent messages asking what type of wok they should have and what ... One thing I realized once I became a more instinctive cook is that you can cook Chinese without all your ducks in a row.

The eggplant cooking technique is so interesting that I’ll use it from now on. You set up a steamer — a Chinese bamboo steamer in a wok or Dutch oven, a metal steamer, or a metal trivet with a ...

People who dislike innards aren’t necessarily logical or consistent about their distaste. Why is liver fine (and some like only foie gras but won't eat veal or chicken liver) but heart is not?

Many people dislike okra because of its texture, which is often described unappealingly as mucilaginous or slimy. If the vegetable is cooked quickly, though, it doesn’t become slimy – instead ...

Now that you are done celebrating the new year, you can celebrate the Chinese New Year on Jan. 22. I’m sharing some easy, economical recipes that you can make at home that taste like they ...

The recipe comes from Fuchsia’s latest book, Every Grain of Rice: Simple Chinese Home Cooking. Cut the dark green ... Pour the oil into a seasoned wok over a medium flame, swirl it around ...