Chinese cooking is a labor of love, emphasis on labor. All that chopping and frying, followed by the vigorous scrubbing of pans and woks to clean them. It’s why I typically prefer takeout. This ...

Look beyond that bottle of soy sauce when you're whipping up a ground beef stir-fry. This sweet and savory Chinese condiment changes the game.

In the kitchen, Lan Lin doesn’t rely on traditional measuring cups. Instead, Lan, or Mama Lin as her daughter affectionately calls her, uses a tiny plastic cup she was handed on her flight from China ...

Chinese food followed a global trajectory from obscurity to ubiquity, says scholar and James Beard Award-winning author Fuchsia Dunlop. Dedicating the better part of her life to the study of the ...

When I was younger and people asked what I ate for dinner, I struggled to answer. “It’s Chinese food, but not what you eat at Chinese restaurants,” I’d say. Dinners usually looked like a bowl of rice ...

Food prices remain high even as inflation eases, and instant noodles are at the top of the list of cheap options.

From the pile of new and secondhand cookbooks on my office floor, I pulled out a plastic spiral-bound book put out by the Baptist church in my hometown in Indiana. The broad collection of ...

Chinese food is the most popular ethnic cuisine in the United States, with around 45,000 restaurants across the country, according to the Chinese American Association. However, how many of them ...