Slice of Rice

Guess what?  We finally finished our week of Chinese New Year meals!  It only took a couple months...  When I first started posting a we...

There are a few cookbooks out there that I have been thinking about buying for years.  Some of them are by cookbook authors whose cookboo...

I'm not sure when I first stumbled across this recipe (or why), but it has been sitting in my draft post folder for some time.  My be...

It turns out that it's a good thing that I made those two homemade stocks while Alex was sick.  Guess who caught the head cold now?  ...

When I first saw this recipe for Xi'an Potsticker Dumplings I got really excited because they look like the pan-fried pork dumplings ...

It's time for the third recipe for (Belated) Chinese New Year - Yunnan-Style Cold Noodles.  I know that it's still a little cold ...

I love highly flavored, exotic dishes but sometimes I need "boring" food.  When planning tonight's dinner all I could think...

This chicken pho recipe has been a long time in coming.  I think we made it 3 weeks ago, but I have been pretty swamped at work (and as y...

Two weekends ago Alex and I trekked down to Chinatown for lunch and groceries.  I love grocery shopping in Chinatown - everytime we go do...

I will be the first to admit that lo mein generally isn't my thing.  I could never understand growing up why so many of my friends ...

It was pretty exciting to be able to eat dinner at home tonight and last (that post is going to have to wait until later).  Work has bee...

This recipe was one of the many I found (and bookmarked) at Serious Eats in the past few weeks.   Until recently I read random reviews ...

Now that we have started on our Chinese New Year meals for 2012, we are on a roll!  Well, it might be a bit premature to really claim to ...

Up until middle school my Chinese grandmother ( popo ) lived with us.  And I always got excited when my other non-Chinese grandmother ...

When we got home yesterday after our shopping expedition to Chinatown I realized that we had far too many noodles in the apartment. ...

This recipe is a variation on the Vietnamese Chicken Noodle Soup that is one of my favorite comfort foods.  Whenever I am sick or o...

Cold noodles are wonderful on a hot summer day.  Up until now Cold Sesame Noodles and variations on Asian-style peanut noodles have be...

So I had a few bites of these eggs and told Alex that I found this dish "surprisingly delicious."  Alex took issue with my us...

Sometimes after I have a particularly delicious meal I start thinking about how I could make it at home, or at least incorporate some of ...

Cold Sesame Noodles is a traditional Sichuan dish that seems to have made its way onto almost every Chinese restaurant menu and more ...