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The Chinese Takeout Cookbook Giveaway!

What a great 5 months it has been since the release of The Chinese Takeout Cookbook! The last few months have been a whirlwind of interviews, classes and events, article-writing, and the like. Thank you for all the support. You’ve helped so much by buying the book, recommending it to your friends and family, participating [...]

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Chinese New Year Virtual Potluck + Winners!

Hello again! It took me a little longer than expected to put up this post, due to the influx of submissions at the eleventh hour, but here it is! At the beginning of February, I organized a Chinese New Year Virtual Potluck as a fun way to both celebrate Chinese New Year and to get [...]

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Chinese New Year Virtual Potluck; Grand Prizes from Le Creuset & Random House

Happy early Chinese New Year! This year I’m unable to make it home to Boston, but I’m still planning on celebrating in two ways: 1) Gathering a big group of friends for dim sum here in New York, and 2) hosting a Chinese New Year Virtual Potluck here with the online food community. I’ve never [...]

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Press for The Chinese Takeout Cookbook

Signing a few display copies at Barnes & Noble You guys are amazing. Thank you for all the congratulations and spreading news about the book, here on the blog, on Facebook, Twitter, and in person. At the risk of coming off cheesy, it’s really incredibly heart-warming to have such great support from the readers of [...]

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Cookbook Launch Party!

December is shaping up to be an exciting month! In addition to classes and holiday parties, my first cookbook comes out on December 11th. And there’s a launch party in Brooklyn to celebrate! So if you’re in New York on December 11th, come down to 61 Local in Cobble Hill from 7-9pm. There will be [...]

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Happy 5th Birthday, Appetite for China!

How time flies! A few days ago, it dawned on me that I have been blogging at Appetite for China for five years. I never wrote anniversary posts in previous years, but for some reason “five” seems significant. Five years of seeking out interesting eats to blog about. Five years of recipe testing. Five years of [...]

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Cookies from Around the World Recipe Kit!

Remember my Japanese green tea cookie post from two weeks ago that I was working on as part of an upcoming cookie recipe kit? Well, I’m happy to report that after extensive recipe testing (and arduous amounts of taste testing!) my friends at GrubKit and I finally launched our Cookies from Around the World kit. [...]

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New, Redesigned Recipe Archive!

We just revamped our Recipe Archive! Now, you can browse more easily and faster by type of dish, cuisine, and ingredient. You can also click on our Favorites tab to see what recipes have been the most popular on this site since it first it began in 2007. So check out the new Recipe Archive [...]

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