egend has it that long ago during the age of great floods there was a vicious monster named Nian，which means...
Culture
Preparations for Spring Festival include stocking up on necessary provisions.At noon on New Year，'s Eve day shopkeepers everywhere put up...
Between Laba Festival, on the eighth day of the last lunar month, and Little New Year, on the twenty-third day...
There are numerous customs associated with honoring the kitchen God and determining the date of the Kitchen God Festival，or Little...
Studies of popular Chinese religion indicate that the Kitchen God did not appear until after the invention of the brick...
Little new year, which falls about a week before the lunar new year is also known as the festival of...
China possesses many traditional holidays, of which Spring Festival is the most important and the most festive. An extended celebration...
Laba Festival falls during the depths of winter, when all kinds of food can be easily stored in Nature's cooler...
The two most important traditions associated with Laba Festival are eating Laba porridge, and praying for peace and good health...
The Laba Festival falls on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month.This holiday may be traced back to the...
XO sauce—a high-end condiment whose heyday in China was in the 1980s—was popularized for the home cook in Momofuku by...
Yes! Make your own! I love working with Fresno chiles (which look like red jalapeños) because they’re readily available and...
Dim sum and dumplings would be stark naked without this important condiment spooned atop their fleshy white exterior. Sure, the...
There are many reasons to go to San Dong House BBQ on Geary Street in San Francisco. For one thing,...
Stinky tofu? No thank you. Shaoxing tofu? Yes, please! Preserving tofu in Shaoxing wine gives it a “drunken” alcoholic bite,...
In one of my zillion expeditions to a certain gigantic Chinese grocery store, I came across a jar of this...
This pickle was inspired by the now-famous chef Danny Bowien of Mission Chinese Food in San Francisco. He does a...
I don’t want to offend anyone with old-fashioned words, but I think of this as a relish tray–ready, 1960s-housewife-style “Oriental...
It could be that long beans—the long and skinny green beans found in Asian markets—are not available near you, and...
This recipe scales like a champ—I’m showing you how to make one jar, but it’s easy enough to make a...