Boiled or steamed edamame beans are one of our favorite healthy snacks (mindless munching has never been so healthy). Just in case you didn’t know, edamame is actually just a green soy bean in its fresh state in the pod. In China, fresh edamame is harvested during the summer months. By now, they are all
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Category Archive: ‘Vegetables’
Chinese Stuffed Peppers are a popular Southern Chinese street food, but most commonly seen stateside on steaming dim sum carts. I remember when I was a kid, my mother would make this dish with green bell peppers from the garden, often alongside her Hakka-style stuffed tofu or perhaps stuffed eggplant, which are other dishes you might see at
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Stir-fried potatoes?!?! That Judy has gone mad! Sorry to disappoint, but I’m still sane over here. Sichuan stir-fried potatoes (土豆丝) is a pretty well-known, common dish in China, but it’s not nearly as well known here in the US, even among people of Chinese descent. It can usually only be found in very authentic Sichuan
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If all vegetable dishes were as easy and tasted as good as this Chinese cabbage stir-fry, we’d all be a lot healthier. (Just a quick note before we go on: there is some meat involved in this dish, but feel free to leave it out if you’re vegetarian!) Among Chinese cabbage recipes, this cabbage stir-fry is savory,
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This dish of “vegetable noodles” with shrimp involves three different kinds of noodles: zucchini noodles, carrot noodles, and broad bean noodles, which are a kind of wide glass noodle. Both broad bean noodles and mung bean noodles fall into the glass noodle category but there are definitely differences. Mung bean vermicelli which are much thinner and have
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Back in good old 2014, my parents and sister posted a recipe for foolproof pizza dough from the Beijing homestead. There you will find a perfectly lovely recipe for a Wild Mushroom & Garlic White Pizza and funny reflections on our obsession with this favoritest of foods. More on this in a sec. Well the
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Buddha’s delight, or luo han zhai 罗汉斋 (Mandarin), or lo han jai (Cantonese), is a vegetarian dish well-known in Chinese and Buddhist cuisine. The dish is traditionally consumed by Buddhist monks (who are vegetarians), but it has also grown in popularity throughout the world as a common dish available as a vegetarian or healthy option in Chinese restaurants. The
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This savory turnip cake (sometimes called radish) lo bak go is a very traditional dish often served at dim sum houses, and when I was a kid, it always showed up on the table on Chinese New Year’s Day. As a result, it’s been etched in my mind as a wonderfully delicious tradition. Having sampled versions
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