Active Work time is 15 minutes. Total preparation time is 45 minutes. “To celebrate the coming of the New Year, the Chinese prepare certain foods because they have a specific meaning. Whole fish ...

I am not sure where I tasted this classic dish for the first time. It might have been on my early trips to Asia in the 1970s. I have often wondered whether I first savored the perfect pairing of ...

“To be perfectly frank,” Ling-ya Lee, who came to Los Angeles from Taiwan in 1989, says of her Chinese New Year preparations, “I rarely make dumplings anymore.” Given the high quality of ready-made ...

Ginger, soy sauce and scallions flavor this Chinese Steamed Fish meal. The food takes only minutes to cook, but the chopping and cutting to prepare ingredients can be time-consuming. This recipe has ...

The Lunar New Year festival usually lasts for 15 days and focuses on family reunions, but if you can't be with loved ones in person this year, at least you can make some delicious (and lucky) food at ...

Eileen Yin-Fei Lo’s new “My Grandmother’s Chinese Kitchen: 100 Family Recipes and Life Lessons” is a beautiful book. As an object, it’s charming, though not in a coffee-table or chef-opus way. The ...

There are many traditional foods eaten for the Chinese Lunar New Year celebration, but one of the most impressive looking is a whole steamed fish. Fish is considered a lucky food for this holiday as ...

Dr. Jessica B. Harris is an award-winning culinary historian, cookbook author and journalist who specializes in the food and foodways of the African diaspora. With this column, "My Culinary Compass," ...

Clean fish, scrubbing cavity with paper towels dipped in coarse salt. Rinse and blot dry, then score flesh with diagonal cuts on both sides and rub with measured salt and pepper. Soak dried mushrooms ...

A Chinese vegetarian taro fish wrapped in nori, steamed taro, ginger, and peppers with Shaoxing wine for depth.

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