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Category: Chinese/Japanese/Thai

Chicken & Fowl/Chinese/Japanese/Thai/Recipes

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…

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Appetizers/Chinese Takeout/Chinese/Japanese/Thai/Recipes/Seafood

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…

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Chinese Takeout/Chinese/Japanese/Thai/Pork/Recipes

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…

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Chinese/Japanese/Thai/Recipes/Soups & Stews

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…

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Appetizers/Chicken & Fowl/Chinese/Japanese/Thai/Recipes/Street Food

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…

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Appetizers/Chicken & Fowl/Chinese/Japanese/Thai/Recipes

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…

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Chinese/Japanese/Thai/Lamb/Recipes

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…

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Chinese/Japanese/Thai/Pasta & Grains/Recipes/Seafood

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…

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Chinese/Japanese/Thai/Lamb/Recipes

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,…

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Chinese/Japanese/Thai/Recipes/Seafood/Soups & Stews

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…

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Chinese Takeout/Chinese/Japanese/Thai/Recipes/Soups & Stews

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…

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Beef/Chinese Takeout/Chinese/Japanese/Thai/Collections/Recipes

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…

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Chinese/Japanese/Thai/Collections/Pasta & Grains/Recipes

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…

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Chinese Takeout/Chinese/Japanese/Thai/Collections/Pork/Recipes

Easy Chinese Spare Ribs Recipe

Ready to get serious about spare ribs? This Chinese-American style favorite will have you wishing they were ready before you finish. You may want…

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Chicken & Fowl/Chinese/Japanese/Thai/Recipes

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…

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Chicken & Fowl/Chinese Takeout/Chinese/Japanese/Thai/Recipes

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…

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Appetizers/Chinese Takeout/Chinese/Japanese/Thai/Recipes

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…

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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…

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Chicken & Fowl/Chinese Takeout/Chinese/Japanese/Thai/Recipes

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…

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Appetizers/Chinese Takeout/Chinese/Japanese/Thai/Recipes

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…

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Chinese/Japanese/Thai/DIY Cooking Projects/Recipes/Sauces & Condiments

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…

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Appetizers/Chinese/Japanese/Thai/Pork/Recipes/Street Food

“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…

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Welcome to Meal Hack, I'm Julie!

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