so granulated sugar came to play a key role in Chinese cooking. Because sugar is water-soluble, it became an important flavoring used to make food sweet and delicious. It is used in soup and in ...

Pairing Chinese food and wine, the right way. The post Wine and Chinese food: The combinations you need to try, according to ...

help create the balance of texture in our food. A balance of flavour, texture and colour, and textural differences within a dish or meal, are incredibly important to Chinese cooking. If you bite ...

But when I bought my air fryer, I began to wonder whether my new frozen-tater-tot-maker-slash-leftover-enchilada-reviver ...

Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, established his capital in Nanjing (Chinese for southern capital). He ate mostly food cooked with the flavors of South China during his ...

There are many ways to prepare twice-cooked pork. Home-made versions will ... chefs start the dish with char siu (Chinese barbecued pork) or siu yuk (Chinese crisp-skinned roasted pork).

Fuchsia Dunlop is an award winning food writer, internationally renowned for her recipes and brilliant writing about Chinese food. The recipe comes from Fuchsia’s latest book, Every Grain of ...

Rice dishes: Leftover fried rice can be stored in the refrigerator for 1 to 2 days. Be sure to transfer it to an airtight ...

There are many regional variations on red-cooked dishes, so named because of the colour of the sauce (although, in truth, it’s more brown than red, but “brown-cooked” doesn’t sound as ...

Katsuhiko Yoshida is the owner-chef of Jeeten, a restaurant in Tokyo’s Yoyogi Uehara offering Chinese home cooking. Hidemi Sato is a visiting professor at Nippon Veterinary and Life Science ...