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Tea-Smoked Duck Breasts

This procedure—done mostly in a wok—is simple and produces a mean smoked duck. Try thin slices over a salad, or make smoked-duck sandwiches.
January 2007
recipes

Pork Dumplings

These dumplings are delicious whether you put the classic pleats in them or not.
January 2007
recipes

Five-Spice Fortune Cookies

The Chinese custom of slipping messages of good fortune into little cakes is one explanation for a Chinese-American icon: the fortune cookie.
January 2007
food + cooking

In Search of the Glories of the East

The heavy spices of western Chinese cooking can conceal a multitude of sins: namely, raw ingredients that are themselves rather tasteless.
12.04.06
travel + culture

What a Dumpling

There is discussionon egullet about where one can find the best xiao long bao, or Shanghai soup dumplings.
11.06.06
food politics

To Eat or Not to Eat—Everything

Over more than a decade in China, I have eaten insects, rabbit heads, and dog meat. But these days I'm clouded by ethical and environmental issues.
10.30.06
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