Chinese cooking is a labor of love, emphasis on labor. All that chopping and frying, followed by the vigorous scrubbing of pans and woks to clean them. It’s why I typically prefer takeout. This ...

When the workweek starts dragging, it helps to have dinner ideas that practically cook away the chaos. With 33 different ...

Dining at a Chinese restaurant may seem like an easy task. However, our experts say that there are a lot of errors that ...

When James Beard award-winning food writer Kevin Pang got an email from his parents, telling him to check out a video, he promptly ignored it, as people occasionally do with parental media ...

This fall, pick up new recipes from a “Top Chef” winner, the House of Nanking and a former Mercury News food editor.

From the pile of new and secondhand cookbooks on my office floor, I pulled out a plastic spiral-bound book put out by the Baptist church in my hometown in Indiana. The broad collection of ...

Seven decades ago, long before Fu Pei-mei became a beloved authority on Chinese cooking, she was struggling to make jiaozi. These boiled dumplings from northern China were her husband’s favorite and ...

In the kitchen, Lan Lin doesn’t rely on traditional measuring cups. Instead, Lan, or Mama Lin as her daughter affectionately calls her, uses a tiny plastic cup she was handed on her flight from China ...

Danny Bowien, the founder of the Mission Chinese Food restaurants, didn't grow up cooking Chinese cuisine. Born in South Korea, then adopted by a family in Oklahoma, Bowien was already an adult living ...