CHINESE FOOD & HISTORY

One sunny day, I had lunch with two South African-born Chinese (SABC) friends at a northern-style Chinese restaurant in Johannesburg’s New...

Hello to all my peers in ASIAN 258! I hope you are all safe and healthy during this pandemic. During this pandemic, I like most of you, h...

Whenever I look for recipes online, I try to find at least two to compare and end up going with kind of an average between the two approa...

Like you, I wonder about the summer. I think about the first thing I will do when I can leave my house. I also imagine various futures. L...

As the parties awaited the verdict, temperatures soared outside. Not that this would have surprised anyone. It was late July in Taipei. B...

I’ve always been a fan of crystal skin dumplings. They are quite popular in Guangzhou and Hong Kong -- if you have eaten dim sum, you’re ...

This is my imaginary letter to Senator John Cornyn (R-Texas). Obviously tongue in cheek, just in case you are wondering... Dear Senator C...

The name of this blog might as well be the title of the class. If there's a time to be upfront, that would be now. The end of the term dr...

The Chinese are present in many ways in Buenos Aires (Argentina). But there’s a special type of restaurant that marries elements from the...

About twenty years ago, I found myself eavesdropping on a conversation about imperialism. The woman sitting next to me had taken issue wi...

Full disclosure: I did *not* grow up making these. My mother was a southerner: born in Singapore, raised in Canton, schooled in Hong Kong...

The question is a real one. It was something that the Japanese government actually considered only a few years ago. In 2006, the Japanese...

If you’re like me, you're probably not going out much these days. So let’s fantasize about the places we might travel if we were suddenly...

Today, my mom taught me to make jinsi bing (金丝饼) – Chinese fried spiral pancake. Remember that Miranda told us that bing (饼) has long exi...

You don’t need to see it, because you can guess the plot. Ramen Girl (2008) is a cross between Karate Kid (1984),Tampopo (1985), Lost in...

This is a no-frills recipe. You need just three ingredients: flour, salt, and water. Special equipment is also superfluous. A knife, cutt...

Best to make & enjoy while listening to Banana Pancakes by Jack Johnson. Today I'm sharing with all of you one of my favorite breakfast f...

A few years ago, Filipino food became trendy on the East Coast. A restaurant called F.O.B. opened in Brooklyn, the hipster capital of the...

A virtual mochi food lab for my students.

We all know its charms: chewy rice noodles line the plastic takeout box, drenched in sweet and sour goodness. There’s a touch of tang, us...