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Today is my mother's birthday, so this post is for her.  Among her many cooking specialties are egg rolls, which she makes every Christmas and on other special occasions. In college, she would sometimes send me back to school with a ...Read More

Video: Making Chinese Egg Rolls

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Hot and sour soup sounds so deceptively simple.  Hot. Sour. How difficult can that be?  Well, plenty, at least for this home cook.  In the past when I've made the soup, it's turned out, ehh. A few problems emerged: the delicate ...Read More

In Pursuit of Hot and Sour Soup Perfection

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If you cook Chinese food, and if you are in fact, Chinese, at some point you'll have to attempt making potstickers.  My mother has made them, I'm sure my grandmothers made them, and now finally, I've given it a shot. The ...Read More

The Ugliest Potstickers You’ll Ever See

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Szechuan Garden in Harrison is your basic, non-descript Chinese take-out place serving all the usual stuff you'd expect. I get a menu in the mail from them every year that I keep in my pile of take-out menus in case ...Read More

Bubble Tea Arrives in Harrison

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That's a pic from dim sum at Aberdeen today.  My parents were in town this weekend, and I'm fairly certain I'm a few pounds heavier now than I was on Friday. All parents love to feed their kids, and mine are ...Read More

Pigging Out On Aberdeen Dim Sum