Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. beef and broccoli and other Chinese food on table - Bhofack2/Getty Images As a Chinese person and cookbook author, I often wish ...

Let’s say your recipe calls for soy sauce. That sounds simple, doesn’t it? But it’s not — not by a long shot. This mahogany liquid is much more than a condiment, because the type and quality of soy ...

Color matters in Chinese food. You can tell the difference between, say, Sichuan and Cantonese restaurants by the palette of dishes at their tables. Sichuan dishes are often tinted by the red sheen of ...

Before we get into the sauce, it’s worth noting that there’s no such thing as real Chinese curry. When it comes to traditional, regional Chinese cuisine, curry simply isn’t part of the equation. As ...

As a Chinese person and cookbook author, I often wish people would stop making this one mistake when dining in a Chinese restaurant. And that mistake is overusing soy sauce. I've seen folks drizzle a ...