Tag Archives: food



The Continuing Search for General Tso

General Tso’s Chicken is so ubiquitous in Chinese restaurants in the United States, one can be forgiven for thinking that it’s a traditional Chinese dish.  In fact, like other famous chicken dishes, its...


Thanksgiving Recipes with Chinese Characteristics

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...


China’s Big Chill

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...