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Best Pre-Seasoned Carbon Steel Woks: 3 Popular Models Tested and Reviewed

It seems like a cook’s dream come true — a wok that comes pre-seasoned (or nearly seasoned) and heats up super hot to...

Almond Apricot Cake: An easy gluten-free dessert with a 2-Minute Batter thumbnail
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Almond Apricot Cake: An easy gluten-free dessert with a 2-Minute Batter

Apricots are from Central Asia and China and almonds may have hailed from those regions too. They are destined to be together in...

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How to Make Egg Sheets, Crepe-like Omelets for Sparking up Asian dishes

There are certain foods and pantry items that unite East Asian cuisines, and egg sheets are one of them! They are thin and...

Mixed Rice (Cơm Trộn) is easy breezy and healthier than fried rice thumbnail
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Mixed Rice (Cơm Trộn) is easy breezy and healthier than fried rice

Rice is the staff of life for countless people on this planet, and a perfect bowl of plain rice is a beautiful thing...

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Wood Ear Mushrooms and Black Fungus: A Beginner’s Guide to Buying, Prepping, and Cooking

Not all mushrooms have earthy flavor or are they spongy. Wood ear mushroom are a neutral tasting, crunchy, slithery wonder. They grow in...

Wood Ear Mushroom Salad (Liáng Bàn Hēi Mù Ěr) thumbnail
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Wood Ear Mushroom Salad (Liáng Bàn Hēi Mù Ěr)

One of the Chinese cooks use the mushroom in wonderful salads, which are commonly served as a side dish at dumpling restaurants like...

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Easy Weeknight Vegetable Stir-Fry Blueprint

To build and maintain a vegetable forward diet, you need fast, plug-and-play, tasty side dishes in your back pocket. This is one of...

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Homemade Peking Duck Master Recipe and Plan for Success

A homemade Peking duck is a glorious, very special treat. I’ve done it at least ten times to get these instructions down for...

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Recipes for Pan Asian Lunar New Year Menus (here are 25 ideas)

We’ve just entered the new Year of the Fire Horse. It only comes around once every 60 years and this one is suppose...

Sesame-Scallion Bread, a Chinese Islamic wonder thumbnail
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Sesame-Scallion Bread, a Chinese Islamic wonder

Thick, tender-chewy Chinese Islamic sesame-scallion bread (called zhīma dà bǐng in Mandarin) is something I’ve loved for decades but making it at home...