Instructions: Combine minced ginger with ground beef. Heat vegetable oil in a pan or wok, add ground beef mixture and stir-fry. When the meat starts to separate, add Shaoxing wine, soy sauce, and salt ...

Properties: Opaque short-grain rice that primarily grows in Southeast and South Asia. Unlike long-grain rice, it has low to negligible amylose content, which makes it sticky upon cooking. Uncooked ...

Every major festival in China has its dedicated food speciality, and for the Dragon Boat Festival in the fifth lunar month, it has to be rice dumplings, or zongzi. The first dumplings were simple ...

“To be perfectly frank,” Ling-ya Lee, who came to Los Angeles from Taiwan in 1989, says of her Chinese New Year preparations, “I rarely make dumplings anymore.” Given the high quality of ready-made ...

Glutinous rice dumplings (Zongzi) are of two types, either sweet or salty. Sweet ones are easier to make and typically contain beans, lotus seeds or egg yolks. Salty ones are more difficult to make, ...