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Fried Dace: A Full Guide!
Posted:View Post: Fried Dace: A Full Guide!If you grew up in a Cantonese household, fried dace with salted black beans may have been a pantry staple. For us, it was always ready when we needed a quick, flavorful dish to complete our family dinner. This humble…
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Quick and Easy Chinese Noodle Soup
Posted:View Post: Quick and Easy Chinese Noodle SoupMake this quick and easy Chinese Noodle Soup recipe with pantry ingredients, water, and a few items from the fridge. Grab an egg, tomato, and some pre-washed spinach. From the pantry, you just need dried noodles and some seasonings, and…
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How to Make Fried Rice: An Easy Formula
Posted:View Post: How to Make Fried Rice: An Easy FormulaToday we’re going to teach you how to make fried rice just like Chinese restaurants, with an easy fried rice formula! You can make restaurant-style fried rice out of almost anything if you use the right ratios of rice, protein,…
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Baked Kimchi Rice with Cheese
Posted:View Post: Baked Kimchi Rice with CheeseThis baked kimchi rice with cheese is surprisingly easy to make (with just 10 ingredients), vegetarian (if you use a vegan kimchi), and so tasty and satisfying! If you’ve never tried this combination, you’ll be shocked at how well the…
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Taro Stir-fry with Scallion Oil
Updated:View Post: Taro Stir-fry with Scallion OilThis taro stir-fry with scallion oil is so simple, with just 8 ingredients. It takes less than 30 minutes to make, but despite its simplicity, it’s surprisingly delicious! If you aren’t from Zhejiang Province, this is probably the first time…
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Homemade Tea (Caffeine-Free!)
Posted:View Post: Homemade Tea (Caffeine-Free!)This is an easy homemade tea recipe that doesn’t require tea bags, is caffeine-free, and uses ingredients that you may already have in your pantry and spice cabinet! It tastes like a fancy designer tea blend with a subtle sweetness,…
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Best Winter Vegetable Soup
Updated:View Post: Best Winter Vegetable SoupI make this winter vegetable soup recipe nearly weekly. Everyone who’s tasted it is amazed that I basically only use water and vegetables to make it. I’m even surprised at how all the ingredients come together so beautifully and easily.…
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Thai Vegetable Curry
Posted:View Post: Thai Vegetable CurryThis colorful, aromatic Thai Vegetable Curry recipe may be vegetarian, but it doesn’t skimp on flavor. Creamy coconut milk and Thai red curry paste create the perfect base for tender eggplant, crisp vegetables, and fragrant Thai basil. The beauty of…
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Steamed Pork Ribs with Red Fermented Bean Curd
Posted:View Post: Steamed Pork Ribs with Red Fermented Bean CurdSteamed Pork Ribs with Fermented Red Bean Curd is the perfect make-ahead Chinese dish for a busy weeknight. Marinate the ribs the night before, and put them in the refrigerator. When you get home from work, place them into the…
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Hakka Taro Roll
Updated:View Post: Hakka Taro RollThis Hakka taro roll is a little-known recipe that you may only see around Lunar New Year. Julienned taro and a bit of ground meat are mixed with dried mushrooms, dried shrimp, Chinese sausage, and peanuts. The mixture gets rolled…
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Shrimp Clay Pot with Garlic
Posted:View Post: Shrimp Clay Pot with GarlicThis Chinese Garlic Shrimp Clay Pot recipe is impressive, very delicious, and surprisingly easy to make. It is a great candidate for Chinese New Year dinner, not just because it symbolizes wealth and happiness “rolling in,” but also because you…
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Braised Eggs with Noodles
Updated:View Post: Braised Eggs with NoodlesBraised eggs with noodles is a dish that you won’t necessarily find anywhere else. It’s more of a concept than a dish! You braise scrambled eggs in a sauce with vegetables and aromatics, and the savory mixture gets served over…
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How to Cook a Chinese Meal with Just One Wok!
Posted:View Post: How to Cook a Chinese Meal with Just One Wok!Help! How do I cook a family-style Chinese meal—with multiple dishes—in just one wok and get everything on the table piping hot at the same time? This is one of the questions that we see at The Woks of Life…
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Perfect Linzer Cookies
Posted:View Post: Perfect Linzer CookiesThese beautiful, tender linzer cookies with raspberry jam filling are perfectly sweet (i.e. not TOO sweet) and particularly enjoyable during the holiday season. You’ll have friends and family waiting in the wings while you assemble them! No wonder they’re our…
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Tofu Soup
Updated:View Post: Tofu SoupThis simple tofu soup recipe gets sweetness from napa cabbage and richness from a few eggs. It is deliciously warm and comforting, and incredibly easy to make. With just 11 ingredients—most of which you probably already have in your kitchen…
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What Is Taro?
Posted:View Post: What Is Taro?Taro is an Asian ingredient that also happens to be one of our favorites to cook with! It has a deliciously buttery flavor and smooth texture, and it’s as versatile as a potato. In this article, we’ll talk about what…
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Air Fryer Tofu
Updated:View Post: Air Fryer TofuThis Air Fryer Tofu recipe makes for tasty jagged seasoned chunks that—no joke—taste like chicken nuggets! The texture and flavor combination is absolutely addictive! I know we just did a whole roundup on the individual and irreplaceable virtues of tofu…but…
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How to Cook Jasmine Rice
Posted:View Post: How to Cook Jasmine RiceJasmine rice is our go-to white rice for serving with Chinese dishes and making fried rice. In this post, we’ll answer all your questions about rice measuring, the “finger trick” every Asian kid knows, and the rice cooker we all…
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