Mutable Noodles: Pad Thai

There is no single definative pad thai recipe. Any Thai cookbook worth consulting will tell you that. Pad thai, probably the most well-known and loved Thai dish in the United States, is a street-stall food that is infinately variable in flavor, ingredients and condiments. The one constant is that it involves a very hot wok, […]

Winner of the Menu for Hope II Raffle

Pim announced the raffle winners for the Menu for Hope II raffle yesterday. Wendy Schaffer is the lucky winner of my donation: a copy each of Fuchsia Dunlop’s Land of Plenty Sichuan cookbook and Henry Chung’s Hunan Style Chinese Cookbook. So, the next step is yours, Wendy. In order for me to send these lovely […]

Culinary Cultural Appropriation

This post could have a subtitle: “Getting Over Myself.” Indeed, it is likely that I could have simply called it “Getting Over Myself” in the first place. In the past, in fact, just as recently as a few months ago, I felt odd about posting about my explorations on Chinese food, including recipes that I […]

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