Today, we’re coming to you with a new mooncake recipe for the Mid-Autumn Festival! This one is a bit non-traditional. We’re making Pecan Pie Mooncakes! This recipe is for all of you out there who think you don’t like mooncakes or who want to try making them for the first time. The flavors are deliciously
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Category Archive: ‘Vegetarian’
Today, we’re making Vegan Ants Climbing a Tree—a vegan and vegetarian version of a beloved Chinese dish! Traditional Ants Climbing a Tree (蚂蚁上树 – mǎyǐ shàng shù) consists of glass noodles in a tasty, spicy sauce with bits of ground pork and scallions. The long strands of noodle represent the “tree,” while the bits of
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This simple tomato potato soup is a summer staple, with just 5 ingredients (plus water). It’s a light snack or side dish that replenishes your body with fluids and salt on those sweat-inducing hot days! A Simple Childhood Soup from Shanghai In our cookbook, I shared stories of my childhood encounters with food while living
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This quinoa rice mix is a great way to get the enjoyment of eating steamed white rice with your stir-fries and other dishes—but with the high-protein and fiber rich addition of quinoa! We do a 50/50 mix here. However, you can up the amount of quinoa for more fiber, protein, and nutrients, or ease into
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This snap pea salad is easy, delicious, and refreshing. I made good use of our Asian pantry with go-to’s like sesame seeds, sesame oil, rice vinegar, coriander seeds, and a couple cloves of garlic for good measure, but this snap pea salad is versatile enough to serve with anything! A Spring/Summer Recipe for Sugar Snap
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You’ll see these fried peanuts often in Cantonese restaurants, served in small dishes around a Lazy Susan along with pots of tea. They’re the perfect little appetizer while you wait for your meal to arrive. Wok fried peanuts are an ideal snack to keep around. They’re crunchy, high in protein, and filling! At our house,
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This pressed tofu (dòufu gān – 豆腐干), is a necessary recipe for our readers who live far away from an Asian market. Firm tofu is (somewhat) widely available, thank goodness, but as of this writing, you can only find pressed tofu (also sometimes known as spiced tofu) in Asian markets. There are actually a couple
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This stir-fry of Chinese rice cakes with mixed vegetables is colorful, satisfying, and happens to be vegan and vegetarian. Rice cakes are called niángāo in Mandarin (or neen goh in Cantonese), which is a homonym for Chinese words that mean “higher year.” It symbolizes growth in the new year, which is why families enjoy niángāo
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