Cumin-crusted lamb makes me weak in the knees. I developed an obsession for it years ago when living in Beijing. From lunchtime through late night hours, it was easy to find street vendors selling cumin-crusted lamb kebabs, which they would cook up right in front of you on a charcoal grill. I also made a [...]
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Soupy Dumplings and Pan-fried Bao at Nan Xiang
Since coming back to the US, I have had a hard time finding pan-fried pork buns, called shenjian bao in Chinese. In Shanghai, they were available on practically every street corner. Like the more widely known xiaolong bao (called “soup dumplings” in English), sheng jian bao is also filled with ground pork and piping hot [...]
3 Taiwanese Dishes Worth the Trip into Flushing
Getting my friends to come on food adventures in Flushing is like pulling teeth. Most of them live in Manhattan or Brooklyn, and are very proud of the fact. "I don’t do outer boroughs," says one. "I don’t leave the Upper West Side," says another. "Why take the train for Chinese food when you can [...]
Why is Chinese food in San Francisco so disappointing? Also, thank you, Xi’an Famous Foods
This $4 plate of liang pi noodles (“cold skin noodles”) single-handedly made up for all the bad Chinese food I have eaten in the past eight months. First, a tangent. I spent eight months living and working in San Francisco. Apologies in advance to those in the Bay Area, but really, it seemed impossible to [...]
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