Do you stir fry at home? Is this easy, healthy method of cooking in your weeknight repertoire? It should be — a simple chicken stir-fry takes a short time to prep and a very small amount of time actually at the stove. But perhaps stir frying is intimidating to you; do you wonder whether you need special equipment or high-powered stove? We're here to tell you that no, you don't need anything special to stir fry at home; it's one of the most home cook-friendly techniques!

Last week, we stepped into the New York City kitchen of Grace Young, stir fry expert and author of multiple books on authentic Chinese cooking, including Stir-Frying to the Sky's Edge. Grace demonstrated for us (and you!) everything you need to know to make several favorite stir fry dishes, starting with this delicious, easy stir chicken stir fry. More

Golden, mellow, and sweet, iced chrysanthemum tea makes a beautiful refreshment on a warm day. It's so pretty that we can imagine serving it to mom on Mother's Day, or at any number of springtime celebrations. More

Q: Both Pei Wei and PF Chang's restaurants offer stock-velveted meats on their menus. I have tried finding a recipe for stock-velveting at home, but can't find one. Any tips on how to do this at home?

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The Chinese New Year is upon us and 2012, the Year of the Dragon, is said to be a particularly lucky one. Lately I've been noticing many recipes for Chinese stir-fries and salads made with Asian greens, so I thought it'd be fitting to post a brief introduction here today. More

Happy Lunar New Year! Today marks the beginning of a new year in Chinese, Vietnamese, and Korean cultures. Will you be sitting down with family and friends for a celebratory meal? Here are 7 recipes to share with loved ones, fill your belly, make you smile, and bring you good luck. More

Chinese or Lunar New Year falls on this coming Monday, January 23rd. In honor of this very important holiday, Bee of the beautiful and delicious website Rasa Malaysia brings us a traditional recipe for hot and soothing soup. Welcome, Bee!

A traditional Chinese New Year meal is incomplete without dumplings and a dish of nourishing and soothing Chinese soup, hence I've combined the best of both worlds into this pork dumpling soup. This dish is a Cantonese delicacy and the dumplings are called "Siu Kow" in Cantonese, or literally "water dumplings." More

I spent the last two weeks of December in China, visiting my mother and stepfather, who have been living in Shanghai for the last year. Though I saw just a small segment of the country, I was blown away by the quality and variety of ingredients in the markets, and the great food to be found on almost every corner.

We hear a lot about China's fake honey and genetically-modified milk, but here are a few snapshots of what it is really like to eat in China for a couple weeks. More

Cold-weather entertaining doesn't get much easier — or cozier — than throwing a hot pot dinner party. Not only is a hot pot dinner an economical, low-stress way to feed a group, eating bowl after bowl of soup warms you to the core, making this the ideal meal for chilly evenings. The only work involved is making the broth, gathering the equipment, and prepping the ingredients beforehand. More

I find a bowl of egg drop soup to be one of the most soothing and comforting dishes ever invented. You really only need three base ingredients to make it, two in a pinch. And yet breathing in that steamy broth and savoring the first spoonful of silky egg curd, all my troubles immediately fade away. More

That's right! Long before jujubes became synonymous with fruit-flavored jelly candies, they were a real fruit. And still are! Have you ever eaten them? More