Apartment Therapy Tagged: Chinese

Know Your Asian Greens

If you've ever visited an Asian grocery store, chances are you've found yourself in the produce section wondering what all those green leafy vegetables are, and how to cook them. Each vegetable has...

Ingredient Spotlight: Wood Ear Mushrooms

Perhaps you've noticed these thin, brown slivers of crunchy, squeaky mushrooms in hot and sour soup or in stir-fries. Called wood ear mushrooms, they're more easily found in dried form, but fresh one...

Lobster to Sweet & Sour: How To Make 6 Stir-Fry Sauces

Have the vegetables and meats to stir-fry, but not sure what sauce you'd like to finish them in? In this post I'll list six simple stir-fry sauces to try. Put down the take-out menu and grab your wo...

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...

Mooncakes & Dumplings: The Mid-Autumn Festival

According to the lunar calendar, the moon will shine brightest on October 3 this year. In countries from China to Vietnam, Korea, and Japan, people will gather with family and friends to enjoy the v...

Make-Ahead Meals: Asian Dumplings

This month, we're talking about quick meals, and the time-consuming dumpling might not seem to fit the bill. But if you assemble dumplings on the weekend or a quiet evening, by the time that busy week...

Ingredient Spotlight: Lotus Root

When most of us think "lotus," we may think of the beautiful aquatic flower or the yoga position. But did you know that the rhizome of the lotus plant is edible? On the outside it looks like a long ...

Ancient Eggs and Other Strange Foods From My Childhood

I became a vegetarian at age five, thus passing up the opportunity to eat many of the world's strangest foods (or delicacies, depending on how you look at it). No octopus terrine or alligator sausage ...

Four Great Chinese Cookbooks

When most American homecooks think of Chinese food, it's the kind eaten out or ordered in, not cooked at home. This is partly a function of a pantry not fit for Chinese cooking and partly the intimida...

Chinese Comfort Food: Stir-Fried Egg and Tomato

Before the Beijing Olympics end, we want to share this dish, which we found out about from a friend who lived in China for many years. She describes it as Chinese comfort food, something children woul...

Ingredient Spotlight: Fermented Black Beans

We were delighted to see Mark Bittman's spotlight on fermented black beans in yesterday's New York Times Dining section. We have a thing for these tiny salted soybeans, and it was great to see them br...

apartment therapy changing the world, one room at a time

Posts tagged “Chinese”