Easy Kung Pao Chicken Recipe
Unlike many of the traditional Chinese dishes we feature, American-Chinese classics like Kung Pao Chicken actually have roots in honest-to-goodness Chinese cooking. The Szechuan…
Category: Chinese/Japanese/Thai
Simple Crab Rangoon Recipe
When I was a teenager, my father would occasionally take me to lunch at a Thai restaurant in Rockland, Maine. I can’t quite remember…
Easy Chinese Roast Pork (Siu Yuk)
For anyone that digs on swine, Chinese roast pork may just be a nearly perfect exploration of the finer points of the animal: A crunchy…
Thai Coconut Curry Corn Soup
I could go on about the perfection of fall for another forty years, and probably I will. Fall makes you feel. Eliot is of course…
Thai Chicken Larb
We don’t do a lot of Thai cooking at home, for reasons that aren’t entirely clear to me. In our house, we tend to…
Spicy Thai Peanut Chicken Wings with Raspberry Habanero Sauce (PB&J Wings)
Do you ever find yourself with a potential cooking project nagging at the back of your mind? A phrase, maybe, or a half-formed idea…
Indonesian Lamb Rendang
Rendang must be in my bloodstream, I think, a part of some core neural bit of circuitry that was formed when my parents took…
Lobster Noodle with Hot and Spicy Scallion Butter
I almost didn’t get the lobster. It wasn’t cheap. And I was all, dammit, I live in Rockland, Maine! I should just wade into…
Chinese Five-Spice Lamb Chops
Easter always kind of gave me the creeps. The man-sized bunny, eating chocolate before lunch and hunting around the house for smelly hard-boiled eggs,…
Lobster Tom Kha Soup
It was one degree Fahrenheit when we left the house this morning. One. The loneliest number. I know all anyone is doing on Facebook…
Pork And Shrimp Wonton Soup Recipe
I never want to make any sweeping, declarative statements on the internet that I might, one day, live to regret. But wonton soup is…
Crispy Orange Beef Recipe
Crispy orange-flavored beef (or chicken) is another staple dish from the world of picture-based Chinese takeout menus. Like General Tso’s, if the dish actually…
Vegetable Lo Mein Recipe
There isn’t much I like eating more than a big bowl of glistening, slippery noodles. Greasy lo mein is one of my favorite takeout…
Easy Chinese Spare Ribs Recipe
It’s been nearly two years since we performed our survey of the Chinese takeout landscape in Maine, and sadly, the picture hasn’t improved. With…
Chicken & Green Bean Stir-Fry
More than twenty years ago, bored suburban mothers made lopsided Christmas trees in ceramics class, and brought home a wok from Chinese cooking class at…
Simple General Tso’s Chicken Recipe
It’s difficult to imagine that anyone in China has ever eaten anything even remotely resembling General Tso’s Chicken. Even the origins of the dish…
Simple Scallion Pancakes Recipe
Scallion pancakes were never part of our takeout repertoire when I was a kid. My little sister got steak-on-a-stick, my mom and I shared spare…
Fried Wontons Recipe
Chinese takeout-style fried wontons are perhaps one of the most perfect examples of a bastardized Cantonese classic, served by the foil bagful at two…
Chinese Chicken and Broccoli Recipe
Here’s what I love about chicken and broccoli: everything. I love that it’s glossy and viscous. I love eating it on the couch, straight…
Steamed Pork Dumplings With Homemade Wrappers
Early last year, we conducted an exhaustive survey of the Chinese takeout options in the greater Portland area, sampling several restaurants’ versions of steamed…
Homemade Sriracha
Why in heavens would you make your own Sriracha, when the bottled version is cheap, readily available, and already pretty perfect? It’s actually quicker…
“Japanese Big Mac” Steamed Pork Belly Buns
As we have mentioned on this site in the past, the pork buns at Pai Men Miyake get into your head. A thick slice…