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 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 ...

Michelle T. King's new book is about a pioneering cook who brought Chinese food to the world, Fu Pei-mei. NPR's Scott Simon talks with King about her and about the book, "Chop Fry Watch Learn." ...

Spend a day with my 85-year-old Chinese grandpa as we explore everything he eats from morning to night. From traditional ...

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 ...

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 ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Watch as Grandpa cooks authentic Chinese dishes for a friend trying them for the first time. From prepping ingredients to ...

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 ...

When I was younger and people asked what I ate for dinner, I struggled to answer. “It’s Chinese food, but not what you eat at Chinese restaurants,” I’d say. Dinners usually looked like a bowl of rice ...