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What's a Chinese City actually like?
... on the ground, in the streets, not from a drone?
Jan 20
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The First Mapo Tofu Recipe
... ever written is from 1958, and it's a masterpiece.
Jan 8
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The First Mapo Tofu Recipe
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November 2024
Peanut Milk Soup (花生汤)
A simple peanut milk vegetable soup to round out a (potentially spicier) meal.
Nov 28, 2024
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Peanut Milk Soup (花生汤)
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63 Chinese Cuisines: the Complete Guide
Not one cuisine, not eight, but many more. Our best shot at a comprehensive-ish guide.
Nov 19, 2024
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October 2024
What's better on a hotdog, Thai or Chinese food?
An overly in-depth, mildly unhinged analysis.
Oct 20, 2024
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Big Plate Chicken Noodle Soup (运城大盘鸡)
A variant of the classic from (interestingly) the Shanxi Province
Oct 15, 2024
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Big Plate Chicken Noodle Soup (运城大盘鸡)
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Celebrating Seven Years of MSG
Proudly applying flavor for seven years - a retrospective (and a recipe re-do)
Oct 5, 2024
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September 2024
A Guide to 'Velveting'
The classic Chinese meat tenderizing technique with... no Chinese name?
Sep 24, 2024
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How to Love Zha Cai
The number one pickle in China doesn't seem to get a lot of international love.
Sep 15, 2024
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How to Love Zha Cai
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Fixing Spaghetti's Asian Soup Problem (with an old technique)
Drawing inspiration from Yangzhou's weimian to increase Spaghetti's substitutability
Sep 3, 2024
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Fixing Spaghetti's Asian Soup Problem (with an old technique)
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August 2024
Are "Thai Salads" (Hakka) Chinese?
The yam-yan connections that drove me to the edge of my sanity.
Aug 24, 2024
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Are "Thai Salads" (Hakka) Chinese?
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Gutter Oil: The History, The Mythology, and the Reality
Online you can find a bunch of videos of people in China scooping oil from the gutter. What are they doing?
Aug 18, 2024
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Gutter Oil: The History, The Mythology, and the Reality
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