Hong Kong Milk Tea is a magical, highly caffeinated, wonderfully smooth morning drink that I had for the first time in its true glory on our trip to Hong Kong. Always served piping hot and perfectly sweetened, it has just the right amounts of evaporated milk and sweetened condensed milk. It gives you a jolt […]
Portuguese Custard Tarts (Pasteis de Nata)
Portuguese Custard Tarts are a deliciously flaky dessert that migrated to Macau and became a local favorite. This custard tart recipe yields buttery, sweet tarts with an aromatic custard that gets baked until it’s just scorched on top. The first time I tried Portuguese Custard Tarts, or pasteis de nata, wasn’t in Portugal, but in […]
Easy Rough Puff Pastry
This easy rough puff pastry made from scratch is buttery, flaky and so delicious that after your first batch, you’ll be thinking of countless ways to use it. Your homemade puff pastry will have a richer, more buttery flavor that will beat store-bought puff pastry any day, and you won’t have to worry about eating […]
Hot Dry Noodles (Re Gan Mian, 热干面)
I can’t talk about Hot Dry Noodles, or 热干面 (pinyin: rè gān miàn), without getting a little personal. During the Great Leap Forward in the late 1950s, my parents left home and traveled to vocational schools in poor villages near Wuhan, 武汉 (capital of Hubei Province, 湖北). Those schools promised potential students three meals a […]
Easy Irish Soda Bread with Raisins
We’re bubbling up this easy Irish Soda Bread recipe originally published by Kaitlin in 2014, re-tested and re-photographed five years later––on St. Patrick’s Day 2019. We’ve also updated it with metric measurements. Enjoy! With the frenzy of green food coloring and corned beef & cabbage sweeping the food blogging community in this yearly moment of […]
15 Peanut Recipes, from Savory to Sweet
Our latest featured recipe collection is here! Peanut recipes. Why, you ask? Well, these days, our family is always on the prowl for ways to make healthier and more conscious decisions when it comes to what we eat. We always make sure to incorporate our dark leafy greens, olive oil, and avocados, but we recently […]
Three Cup Chicken (San Bei Ji)
Note: This Three Cup Chicken recipe was originally published on July 20, 2013. It was one of the very first recipes on The Woks of Life (we started the blog in June 2013). Since our older recipes are some of our family’s favorites, we’ve updated this Three Cup Chicken recipe (San Bei Ji) with new […]
Spicy Crispy Pork Noodles (Made with Spaghetti!)
Sometimes you’re craving something really really really TASTY, and oftentimes the secret to that craving is lots of salty, spicy goodness. That’s why today, we’re offering up these Spicy Crispy Pork Noodles made with one of our favorite store-bought sauces, Lao Gan Ma. We’ve done a few recipes now that showcase our favorite—really China’s favorite—chili […]
