This noodle soup with pork and pickled greens (xuecai rousi mian / 雪菜肉丝面)is one of my absolute favorites. It’s an easy, satisfying comfort food meal in Chinese households everywhere, where all you need is a few items from your pantry. My grandmother used to make this for lunch when she’d come to visit, and now it’s
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Category Archive: ‘Rice, Noodles & Pasta’
We love a good stir-fried choy sum, but this choy sum recipe is a little different. An eccentric. Born of the desire to explore the hitherto under-explored possibilities of the overflow of Chinese greens in our market right now. Our usual employment of such vegetables usually involves either a hot pan of garlic and oil, a bowl
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As ABC (American Born Chinese) kids living in a predominantly Caucasian town, Sarah and I have always had clashes of East meets West. There was always the cliched “ching chong” ridiculousness from classmates and the questions of “do you eat lo mein every night?” Then there was the downright offensive: being asked if we can
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If you frequent any good dim sum restaurants, you’re probably familiar with this chicken pan-fried noodles dish, called “Gai See Chow Mein” in Cantonese. We always order Gai See Chow Mein when I meet my sisters and all of our kids for Sunday Dim sum. But we only order it after we’ve gone through all
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During the workweek, I actually have a pretty flexible schedule. My job involves a lot of work that can be done online remotely (read: me sitting on the couch in my pajamas all day, tapping furiously at the keyboard for eight straight hours), plus a lot of running around in the city and meeting people
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For a long time, Ratatouille was a big fat fail in this house. Undercooked, overcooked, lacking in flavor, there was no good ratatouille recipe to be found. The usual reaction it elicited from everyone was something more or less along the lines of, “eh…” Which is so wrong because that Anton Ego guy like, totally
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This easy mushroom noodle stir fry is a great dish for mushroom lovers, as well as vegetarians and vegans alike (just leave out the pork). We were looking for a simple dish to try out the black mushrooms we recently dried on the window sill. It’s only been a few weeks since we dried them,
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These 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 for storage and it should keep for a few weeks. You can make the basic
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