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How to Season a Wok and Daily Wok Care
Updated:View Post: How to Season a Wok and Daily Wok CareIf you’ve read our post on choosing a wok, you now know that our personal preference here at The Woks of Life is a classic carbon steel wok. You may have even gone out and purchased one. But it’s also…
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Sha Cha Chicken
Updated:View Post: Sha Cha ChickenThis Sha Cha Chicken recipe is another win for lazy cooks everywhere. Just 9 ingredients and 10 minutes are required to make this dish, but the results are no less impressive. In fact, you’ll be able to make a plate…
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What is the Best Wok to Buy?
Updated:View Post: What is the Best Wok to Buy?If you’re new to Chinese cooking, you’ve probably asked yourself: What is the best wok to buy? Well, we’re here to help you with a guide to buying the right wok so you can cook our recipes and get the…
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13 Summer Pasta Recipes
Updated:View Post: 13 Summer Pasta RecipesOkay, we all know that most people if asked would call this a Chinese food blog, so we know that you may not get as excited when you see summer pasta recipes turn up instead of an authentic Hunan stir-fry…
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Chinese Garlic Chive “Boxes”
Updated:View Post: Chinese Garlic Chive “Boxes”Are you, like me, looking for recipes to use up the abundant chives in your garden? We already have recipes like our Chinese Chive & Egg Stir-Fry and Pork Chive Dumplings in our regular rotation, but today’s recipe is a…
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Peach Cake
Updated:View Post: Peach CakeThis Peach Cake has a wonderfully dense crumb flavored with cinnamon, vanilla, and plenty of big wedges of summer peaches. A dollop of whipped cream makes the whole thing sing. Peach season in New Jersey is A Big Deal, and…
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Braised Chinese Mushrooms with Bok Choy
Updated:View Post: Braised Chinese Mushrooms with Bok ChoyBraised Chinese Mushrooms with Bok Choy, or xiang gu cai xin (香菇菜心) is a popular and very traditional Shanghai vegetable dish usually served during Chinese New Year in Shanghainese homes. Made with baby bok choy (sometimes called Shanghai bok choy)…
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Mexico City Food: Eating Our Way Through CDMX
Updated:View Post: Mexico City Food: Eating Our Way Through CDMXThis post is about Mexico City. AKA Ciudad de Mexico––CDMX for short. More importantly, this post is about Mexico City FOOD. My sister and I were there earlier this summer along with my friend Zoe, and it was an explosion…
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Chinese Zucchini Pancakes
Updated:View Post: Chinese Zucchini PancakesPancakes are one of those foods that pretty much every culture seems to have figured out, whether savory or sweet. From American pancakes to Korean pancakes to these humble Chinese Zucchini Pancakes, the defining feature of the pancake is that it’s…
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Sour Plum Drink (Suan Mei Tang – 酸梅汤)
Updated:View Post: Sour Plum Drink (Suan Mei Tang – 酸梅汤)So we know that Sour Plum Drink doesn’t exactly sound very good, but it happens to be the commonly used translation of a popular Chinese drink known as suan mei tang (酸梅汤) in Chinese. (While an awkward Chinese translation never…
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Stuffed Lobster with Shrimp
Updated:View Post: Stuffed Lobster with ShrimpThis Baked Stuffed Lobster makes a big statement. Stuffed with herbs and buttery breadcrumbs and topped off with a decadent row of shrimp, this meal is perfect for any special occasion. Whether it’s a birthday, a romantic meal, or a…
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Pasta with Breadcrumbs & Anchovies
Updated:View Post: Pasta with Breadcrumbs & AnchoviesThere’s something about Pasta with Breadcrumbs and Anchovies that feels so wonderfully Italian in the most old-school-touch-of-glamour, dolce vita kind of way. Think grandma’s kitchen, but grandma insisted on having her hair done and putting on a nice dress before…
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Ketchup Shrimp Stir-Fry: Bill’s Mom’s Recipe
Updated:View Post: Ketchup Shrimp Stir-Fry: Bill’s Mom’s RecipeMe and Ketchup Shrimp go a long way back. Pronounced “cure jup ha” in Cantonese dialect, it was a family dish that my mom used to make for special dinners and holidays. If you haven’t figured it out already, “cure…
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15 Easy Korean Recipes
Updated:View Post: 15 Easy Korean RecipesKorean recipes seem really really complicated, but the truth is once you have a few key ingredients in your pantry, they come together pretty easily and rely on a few core ingredients (lookin’ at you tofu, kimchi, and pork belly).…
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Hot Pot Sauce Noodles
Updated:View Post: Hot Pot Sauce NoodlesToday’s recipe is an ode to one of my favorite things in the world: hot pot. Hence, hot pot sauce noodles! What Is Hot Pot? If you’ve never had a Chinese hot pot dinner before, here’s a quick explanation of…
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Yang Chun Noodle Soup (Yang Chun Mian)
Updated:View Post: Yang Chun Noodle Soup (Yang Chun Mian)STOP SCROLLING! I need to say before you go any further, don’t be fooled by this Yang Chun Noodle Soup’s simple appearance. Read on, or you’ll miss A REAL TREAT! I’m not exaggerating. Yang Chun Noodle Soup (阳春面, yang chun…
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Pork and Chicken Stock
Updated:View Post: Pork and Chicken StockThis Pork and Chicken Stock has appeared once already on the blog––in my Shanghai Wonton Soup post. But I’m sharing it today as its own recipe, because I don’t just believe that this stock can stand on its own, I…
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How to Make Lard
Updated:View Post: How to Make LardYes, you read that right. I’m going to talk about how to make LARD today. Lard seems to be a word that everyone dodges and shuns. Unlike butter, it seems that lard has been swept to a forgotten culinary wasteland.…
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