Tag: Asian cooking | Apartment Therapy

Recipe: Hot & Sour Soup - So Easy!

One of my favorite soups is Hot & Sour Soup, and I was flabbergasted to discover that it's really quite easy - and cheap! - to make. Who woulda thunk it? Called suan la t'ang in Chinese, it gets its...

Asian Dumplings by Andrea Nguyen
Book Review 2009

I've learned a lot of my small store of Asian cooking skills from Andrea Nguyen. Her first book, Into the Vietnamese Kitchen was award-winning and I don't doubt that her newest, Asian Dumplings (Ten S...

Can You Identify This Chinese Mystery Ingredient?
Good Questions

Q: Our summer subletters recently vacated our apartment to return to China and left this jar of mystery food behind. They are a little fuzzy looking. What are they? And how do I use them? Sent by M...

Cooking By Feel: Asian Flavor Combinations

We have been talking about cooking without recipes, which is one of the things many of you said you wanted to learn during the Cure. One thing that makes cooking by instinct and feel more simple is a ...