Chinese Laundry was founded by designer Yanza and chef Leo, a husband-and-wife team in California, as a way to preserve and share Yanza's family recipes from China.
Their spicy and nutty dan dan sauce adds some extra oomph to these dumplings. Check out the recipe:
Enjoy!
You can get Tasting India's masalas and Bombay Chili Crunch on our website, our shop on Mercato, and at Pearl River Mart Foods. You can also check out this recipe in action.
]]>Because food sticks easily to a bare metal cooking surface, the wok must be seasoned before use. The coating known as seasoning is formed by repeatedly layering extremely thin coats of oil on the wok and oxidizing each layer with high heat.
What you’ll need:
Instructions:
Note that the color of the coating, also known as “patina,” will darken with each use.
Now you’re ready to start cooking!
Check out even more detailed instructions from our friends, The Woks of Life.]]>Papa's Black Garlic has no added ingredients and is sweet, mellow, and almost balsamic-like in flavor. Perfect as part of a cheese plate, pureed in dressing — or in noodles! Check out our recipe for Black Garlic Miso Chili Oil Noodles.
You can get Bessou's Papa's Black Garlic and Miso Marinade at Pearl River Mart Foods, via our Mercato store, and our website. You can also check out the recipe in action.
Enjoy!
]]>You can get Bessou's miso marinade, furikake, rayo chili oil, and Papa's Black Garlic at Pearl River Mart Foods, via our Mercato store, and our website. Enjoy!
]]>Mrs. Chen makes this vegetarian dish every Lunar New Year Day, following in the footsteps of her mother. "It's a must," she says. Including a cleansing vegetable dish in a feast of dumplings, noodles, and other rich foods is a tradition especially practiced by those with roots in southern China. It's believed that abstaining from meat consumption on the first day of the new year will enhance longevity and that eating a vegetarian dish will help purify the body. In addition, it honors a Buddhist tradition that nothing living should be killed on the first day of the new year.
Each of the vegetables in the dish has a special meaning:
This dish is simply seasoned with salt to allow for the flavors of the vegetables to shine. And because it's such a large dish, you're sure to have leftovers after New Year Day, which symbolizes abundance for the whole year.
Most of these are available at Pearl River Mart Foods.
Save the leftovers in the refrigerator. The dish will last several days and still retain its good flavor.
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