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Ong Choy with XO sauce
Updated:View Post: Ong Choy with XO sauceOng Choy is a popular Chinese leafy green vegetable that’s worth pairing with luxurious XO sauce. Chinese water spinach or Ong Choy, as it’s called in the Cantonese dialect, is a favorite vegetable of ours, and has now become one…
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Crispy Salmon Skin Rice Bowls
Updated:View Post: Crispy Salmon Skin Rice BowlsWe don’t like wasting food. As food lovers and food bloggers, it’s pretty much tantamount to a crime. Sarah and I once had friends over for dinner, and we juiced half a lemon. At the end of the night during…
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Salmon Pasta with Green Goddess Pesto
Updated:View Post: Salmon Pasta with Green Goddess PestoI love green goddess dressing. Ever since I discovered it through our Green Goddess Salmon Burgers, I’ve been completely smitten with the stuff. And it’s really no wonder. You throw some of the best, most delicious herbs out there (i.e.,…
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Salt Baked Chicken
Updated:View Post: Salt Baked ChickenSalt Baked Chicken (盐焗鸡) is a signature Hakka (客家) dish. With this recipe, you can make this classic chicken dish at home! Origins of Salt Baked Chicken This is the real deal, true blue recipe for Salt Baked Chicken. As…
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Kung Pao Mushrooms (Vegan!)
Updated:View Post: Kung Pao Mushrooms (Vegan!)In my recent mission to make more vegan dishes (check out our Soy Sauce Braised Wild Mushroom Noodles from a couple weeks ago), I’ve created this recipe for Kung Pao Mushrooms, a vegan version of the classic Kung Pao Chicken,…
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How to Avoid Falling Off a Cliff (& Other Lessons from Zion National Park)
Updated:View Post: How to Avoid Falling Off a Cliff (& Other Lessons from Zion National Park)Remember me telling you in the first post of the Utah series that my dad went on a camping trip with a friend to Bryce Canyon 15 years ago? Well they also went to Zion National Park. Look, here are some pre-filter, pre-social…
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Fish Sauce Chicken Wings
Updated:View Post: Fish Sauce Chicken WingsWhen it comes to chicken wings, in the past I’ve espoused a philosophy that prioritizes simplicity (case in point: Three Ingredient Chicken Wings). Though as a family we’ve definitely dipped our toes into a nice little cache of wing recipes in…
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Oyakodon (Japanese Chicken & Egg Rice Bowls)
Updated:View Post: Oyakodon (Japanese Chicken & Egg Rice Bowls)Everyone needs a good one-pan meal in their back pocket. Something that can be whipped up with minimal effort, time, and cleanup. My favorite approach is usually to cook something that’s served over rice. (Considering everything that you all know about myself…
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Starry-eyed and Sugar-high in Capitol Reef
Updated:View Post: Starry-eyed and Sugar-high in Capitol ReefIf you’re just tuning in, last week we shared the first leg of our jaunt through Utah — Bryce Canyon. From Bryce Canyon we headed to Capitol Reef, which was a much quieter, but no less spectacular experience. It seems…
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Curry Mee Malaysian Noodle Soup
Updated:View Post: Curry Mee Malaysian Noodle SoupToday, we have another awesome noodle soup recipe for you guys: Malaysian Curry Mee. And I’m pretty excited about it. Inspired by a Favorite Malaysian Spot As you can probably tell, The Woks of Life has been in a noodly…
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Soy Sauce Braised Wild Mushroom Noodles
Updated:View Post: Soy Sauce Braised Wild Mushroom NoodlesWe’ve partnered with Pearl River Bridge to bring you this post. Enjoy! These Soy Sauce Braised Wild Mushroom Noodles are earthy, flavorful, rich, and savory, all with the benefit of being totally vegan! Yes, that rarest of times has come…
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Those Hoodoos Though: Sarah & Kaitlin Go to Bryce Canyon
Updated:View Post: Those Hoodoos Though: Sarah & Kaitlin Go to Bryce CanyonWhile most city folk don’t necessarily think of sleeping in a tent every night as the ideal vacation, my sister and I can’t get enough of campfire smells, 8-mile hikes, and “No Service” dead zones. If you’ve been following our blog for…
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Braised Beef Noodle Soup (红烧牛肉面)
Updated:View Post: Braised Beef Noodle Soup (红烧牛肉面)I’m not going to lie. If you put this Braised Beef Noodle Soup and my Spicy Beef Noodle Soup side by side, I would choose the latter. It’s not much of a surprise, since I’ve been known to post some…
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Crispy “Sichuan” Potato Cakes and Eggs
Updated:View Post: Crispy “Sichuan” Potato Cakes and EggsIf you’re looking for something really different—yet easy—to serve for breakfast or brunch, i.e. not your average scrambled eggs and homefries, today’s recipe is for you. These crispy Sichuan flavor-inspired potato cakes go perfectly with a sunnyside up egg and…
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Stir-Fried Lettuce, A Healthy Cooked Lettuce Recipe
Updated:View Post: Stir-Fried Lettuce, A Healthy Cooked Lettuce RecipeStir fried lettuce or Chao Sheng Cài in Mandarin 炒生菜 or Chow Saung Choy in Cantonese dialect isn’t the first thing you jump to when you think of lettuce, but this cooked lettuce dish is refreshing, quick, easy to make, and goes…
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Beef Bulgogi Tacos
Updated:View Post: Beef Bulgogi TacosI first heard about the Korean-Mexican food fusion trend having a beef bulgogi taco in Beijing, of all places. When I was still a Beijing expat two years ago, I went to a restaurant in one of the trendier areas…
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Two Kinds of Pita Chips & Homemade Hummus
Updated:View Post: Two Kinds of Pita Chips & Homemade HummusWhen it comes to satisfying my inner mindless snack addict, I love pita chips and hummus as much as the next hipster in denial, but sometimes the store-bought version can be pricey and laden with sodium. Lately, I’ve fallen victim…
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15 Minute After-School Special Noodles
Updated:View Post: 15 Minute After-School Special Noodles15 Minute After-School Special Noodles is a recipe that has been our constant companion over the years. The Perfect Kid-Made After School Snack When I was eleven years old, my parents finally (“finally?”) deemed me and my sister old enough…
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