The Lunar New Year is more than exchanging greetings and blessings on the first day and eating dumplings. In Chinese culture, it’s a fifteen-day holiday on a schedule wherein each...
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Walk down a street in any New York neighborhood, and there’s a good chance you’ll see a store or restaurant that wasn’t there a couple of weeks ago. With new...
Those in the know know that Chinese New Year is a fifteen day affair with a busy schedule of festivities. Right in the middle of this extended holiday, on the seventh day, is...
Last week, we told you about Cathy Erway’s forthcoming cookbook, The Food of Taiwan, and promotional events in New York City. We now have details about the “Taiwanese Pub Dinner” Cathy is hosting...
Her name may belie the fact that she grew up with family dinners prepared by her Taiwanese mother and uncle, but Cathy Erway, author of The Art of Eating In: How I Learned...
In the not-too-distant future, when you fake your way through a restaurant’s wine list, the wine you might choose could be a one produced entirely — from vine to bottle — within China. Leaving behind the days...
If you’re anxious about what to prepare for Thanksgiving (感恩节 / 感恩節), have you considered doing a Chinese-style dish? We’re not talking about making dumplings or doing hot pot, but sinfiying Thanksgiving by...
Baffled and dissatisfied by Chinese American food? Yeah? Well, so was Cecilia Chiang (江孫芸) when she arrived in San Francisco in 1958 and decided that she was going introduce real...
Tomorrow, August 13, the Seaport Film & Food Festival highlights Taiwan with free food and drink from the little culinary wonderland and a screening of Au Revoir Taipei (一页台北 / 一頁台北), the 2010...
Between 1995 and 2007, the percentage of urban households in China who owned refrigerators rose from 7% to 95%. Without this increase, the Sanquan (三全) frozen dumpling factory in Zhengzhou probably...