One thing you won’t hear at a typical Asian dinner gathering is ‘Do you mind if I kill that?” or ‘Were you going to finish that?” This is because Asians like to not take the last piece of food on a plate.
This Asian cultural idiosyncrasy leads to some very peculiar phenomena at Asian social […]
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“Wontons,” which are the anglicized form of two Chinese words that literally mean “small dumpling,” are greatly enjoyed by Asians. In fact, wontons have a storied history stretching back to even before the medieval times. You asked for it, it’s this weekend’s asian food feature.
The stuffed dumpling, as humble as it seems, is a canto […]
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Asian cooking has always been out of scarcity. For over 2000 years, lay asians have had to work to provide the best foods for their respective emperors (especially in China). One device to counteract the lack of ingredients they had was the Wok, which back then, revolutionized cooking. It also set a precedent for today’s […]
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