This recipe for General Tso’s chicken has been the most popular on this site since I first posted it in 2009. Month after month it continues to be the most viewed and searched for recipe here. I love that so many of you, presumably, have visited on a mission to replicate this tasty dish from [...]
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Cold Sesame Noodles
Last night I had the pleasure of being a guest chef at the Ted and Amy Supper Club in Fort Greene. The theme was Tiki Summer Feast, so Kara set up long tables in her lovely backyard for the 12 guests and cranked up some tiki lounge music. I did a variety of shareable plates, including [...]
United States of Chinese Food: Your Favorites in SF, LA, Miami, and DC
Writing a cookbook that involves historical research is no easy task. Here at the Appetite for China headquarters in Brooklyn, I’ve been recipe-testing like crazy for the past few months while devoting countless hours to library research. My grocery receipts are too scary to add up. The to-be-read stack of books by my bed about [...]
General Tso’s Potato Chips, a Taste Test
While shopping at the horribly chaotic Target at the Atlantic Center several weeks ago, I noticed something strange in the freezer aisle. Maybe I was just oblivious before, but there was a good number of frozen entrees based on Chinese takeout. Yes, frozen egg rolls and dumplings have been around for a while, and Trader [...]
Mongolian Beef
I’ve been thinking a lot recently about how the names of Chinese foods vary so much between China and the US. One example is lemon chicken. In Southern China, lemon chicken usually means a whole bone-in chicken, steamed, chopped up, and served with a light lemon sauce. In the US, you’d get perfect cubes or [...]
Chinese-Jamaican Food in Brooklyn: De Bamboo Express
Every once in a while I get an craving for greasy Chinese food that’s different from what you can find at your everyday takeout stand. Some of you may remember my Caribbean-Chinese party from two years ago. The theme had been inspired by the wee bit of my childhood that was spent in Puerto Rico [...]
Vintage Chinese Restaurant Ad, Texas
Lately I’ve been browsing through a lot of vintage restaurant ads and menus, for both fun and research. Here’s one from 1968, for the China Clipper Cafe in Dallas, Texas. “The Chow is the Mein thing!” Adorable. This photo comes courtesy of Waffle Whiffer, whose Flickr collection is loaded with other great old food advertisements. [...]
Chop Suey Casserole, California Ranch Edition
Recently, while visiting Jacob’s grandmother in California, I discovered a torn cookbook in her kitchen drawers. “Oh!” she exclaimed. “You found my bible!” Titled “Country Cookin’”, the book was published in the 1970s by the Monterey County Cowbelles, otherwise known as the wives of Monterey’s ranchers. Surprisingly, only a tenth of the book is devoted [...]
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