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Quick and Easy Braised Tofu (Hongshao Dofu)
Updated:View Post: Quick and Easy Braised Tofu (Hongshao Dofu)This braised tofu or hongshao dofu is my grandpa’s favorite dish when we go out to eat at this little Cantonese restaurant on Division Street in Chinatown. I have to say that this is a pretty crazy authentic homemade version,…
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Cranberry Orange Cookies
Updated:View Post: Cranberry Orange CookiesThe house is officially occupied again! We’ve all made the pilgrimage back to NJ for Christmas, and the holiday shenanigans have officially started. We barely had time to remove the thin layer of dust on the furniture and crank up…
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Pumpkin Pie with Pecan Streusel
Updated:View Post: Pumpkin Pie with Pecan StreuselI’ll keep the intro short on this one, folks. A couple months ago, I made this pie for the first time. My dad, the world’s nit-pickiest pie eater, with over forty years’ pie eating experience, named it the best pumpkin…
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Savory Chinese Turnip Pancakes
Updated:View Post: Savory Chinese Turnip PancakesWhen I was a kid growing up in upstate New York, we kids made pancakes frequently for breakfast on Saturdays. One day, my father suggested that we make a savory version of Chinese turnip pancakes. These days, all sorts of…
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A Bi-Continental Thanksgiving Turkey Recipe
Updated:View Post: A Bi-Continental Thanksgiving Turkey RecipeUPDATE: Check out the recipe for the marinade AND how to roast your turkey! (Note: in this recipe, I really should have pulverized the garlic until it really became a smooth paste, but the food processor I was working with wasn’t cooperative.…
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Tricolor Pepper Steak with Leeks (A Pepper Steak Makeover)
Updated:View Post: Tricolor Pepper Steak with Leeks (A Pepper Steak Makeover)A very traditional and perhaps forgotten Chinese takeout dish is Pepper Steak, which is simply beef, green bell peppers, and yellow onions cooked in a brown sauce. Honestly, this wasn’t one of my favorite dishes to cook in the restaurant,…
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Garlicky Broccoli Stir-Fry
Updated:View Post: Garlicky Broccoli Stir-FryIf you’re one of those people who hates broccoli, then you probably haven’t had it like this before. One thing that Chinese cuisine does particularly well is make vegetables that taste really really good including a broccoli stir-fry. We don’t…
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Chinese Spare Ribs
Updated:View Post: Chinese Spare RibsThis Chinese spare rib recipe is exactly what you want in a Chinese takeout-style or restaurant-style BBQ rib—a little sweet, juicy, and full of nostalgia! Our recipe comes from my father, who cooked Chinese food in the Catskills of New…
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Dumplings, Dumplings, Dumplings
Updated:View Post: Dumplings, Dumplings, DumplingsOk, I’m going to be up front with you all here. This post is blatantly just an excuse to post a bunch of pictures I took of lunch the other day. So yeah… Dumplings, Chinese dumplings in Beijing China. We…
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Dark Chocolate Pumpkin Scones
Updated:View Post: Dark Chocolate Pumpkin SconesWe’ve been having a bit of an obsession lately with 2 things: 1) King Arthur Flour’s baking blog Flourish, and 2) pumpkin. We’ve done their pumpkin doughnuts (or at least, a reasonable facsimile involving mini muffin pans and a creative muffin-to-doughnut…
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Stir Fried Water Spinach with Fermented Tofu
Updated:View Post: Stir Fried Water Spinach with Fermented TofuFermented Tofu!? It’s not as weird as it sounds. Especially when it comes to Chinese stir fried water spinach. Stir-Fried green leaf vegetables are an essential part of the Chinese menu, whether back home in the US or here in…
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Pumpkin Mini Muffins
Updated:View Post: Pumpkin Mini MuffinsIt’s October. Which means that although fall officially began on September 22, only now am I having visions of orange leaves swirling in the wind, hay rides, and apple cider. Which made me get really homesick, because back in NJ,…
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Post-Lunch Street Snack
Updated:View Post: Post-Lunch Street SnackWalking down the street the other day, we glimpsed a sign. A loooonnng list of steamed buns, 1 RMB each (about 16 cents). The guy in line in front of us was picking up his lunch. We’d just come out…
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The ONLY Dumpling Recipe You’ll Ever Need
Updated:View Post: The ONLY Dumpling Recipe You’ll Ever NeedWe present: our family’s dumpling recipe. This was the first dumpling recipe we ever published (originally posted on October 13, 2013, just 4 months after we started The Woks of Life). And while we’ve shared many other Chinese dumpling recipes…
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Cold Sesame Noodles, An Old Chinese favorite
Updated:View Post: Cold Sesame Noodles, An Old Chinese favoriteThese cold sesame noodles are quick and easy to make, especially if you make a bigger batch of the sauce and store it in a jar in your refrigerator. Just omit the warm water if you decide to make enough…
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Homemade Bagels Recipe
Updated:View Post: Homemade Bagels RecipeLast week, it was English Muffins. This week, it’s homemade bagels. Why the carb overload, you ask? Well it just so happens that my dad just came back from a weeklong business trip to Finland, and he brought back exactly…
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Hakka Style Chinese Stuffed Tofu
Updated:View Post: Hakka Style Chinese Stuffed TofuMy parents grew up in southern China in the Guangdong province as descendants of the Hakka Chinese – Hak-kâ; 客家. When we were young, we spoke the Hakka dialect at home and the more common Cantonese dialect when out in Chinatown…
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Back to Beijing
Updated:View Post: Back to BeijingThe cat’s out of the bag. I’m back…pulled out of my suburban stupor and thrown back into the traffic lights, honking horns, subways, and skyscrapers of Beijing. The land of dragons, dumplings, and duck. I’ve found a new occupation here…
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