https://thewoksoflife.com/category/recipes/chinese-take-out/ a culinary genealogy Wed, 30 Oct 2024 06:16:46 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.2 https://thewoksoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/cropped-TWOL-favicon-4-32x32.png https://thewoksoflife.com/category/recipes/chinese-take-out/ 32 32 https://thewoksoflife.com/pork-egg-foo-young/?adt_ei=*|EMAIL|* https://thewoksoflife.com/pork-egg-foo-young/#comments Wed, 30 Oct 2024 06:16:44 +0000 https://thewoksoflife.com/?p=83578 Roast pork egg foo young is one of the most delicious egg foo young variations! I cooked countless egg foo young patties in my parents’ Chinese restaurant in the 80s and early 90s, so if you’re looking for a real-deal nostalgia-packed recipe—complete with luxurious brown gravy—this is it.  We’ll show you how to fry these ... View Post ]]> https://thewoksoflife.com/pork-egg-foo-young/feed/ 24 https://thewoksoflife.com/chicken-mixed-vegetables/?adt_ei=*|EMAIL|* https://thewoksoflife.com/chicken-mixed-vegetables/#comments Sun, 15 Sep 2024 06:47:00 +0000 https://thewoksoflife.com/?p=81864 This chicken with mixed vegetables recipe a tasty, restaurant-quality Chinese takeout dish that makes it easy to get a variety of vegetables into your diet! You can use whatever vegetables you have on hand. The key is knowing how to prepare them and what order to cook them in.  If you’d rather just follow a ... View Post ]]> https://thewoksoflife.com/chicken-mixed-vegetables/feed/ 33 https://thewoksoflife.com/general-tsos-cauliflower/?adt_ei=*|EMAIL|* https://thewoksoflife.com/general-tsos-cauliflower/#comments Tue, 02 Jul 2024 15:01:16 +0000 http://thewoksoflife.com/?p=11448 General Tso’s Cauliflower is a delicious alternative to classic Chinese takeout General Tso’s Chicken. It’s crispy, super tasty, vegetarian and vegan, and you might just like this recipe more than the chicken version! Cauliflower: A Great Vegetarian Stand-In We were starting to think cauliflower recipes were beginning to go out of style. Or perhaps that ... View Post ]]> https://thewoksoflife.com/general-tsos-cauliflower/feed/ 229 https://thewoksoflife.com/lo-mein-how-to-cook-it-the-right-way/?adt_ei=*|EMAIL|* https://thewoksoflife.com/lo-mein-how-to-cook-it-the-right-way/#comments Mon, 22 Apr 2024 09:46:00 +0000 https://thewoksoflife.com/?p=76921 We have quite a few lo mein recipes in our recipe collection. In fact, searching for lo mein in our archives yields a list like you would see on a Chinese restaurant menu! You can take your pick of your favorites, including beef, chicken, shrimp, pork, vegetable, or even turkey lo mein. Suffice it to ... View Post ]]> https://thewoksoflife.com/lo-mein-how-to-cook-it-the-right-way/feed/ 31 https://thewoksoflife.com/sesame-chicken/?adt_ei=*|EMAIL|* https://thewoksoflife.com/sesame-chicken/#comments Fri, 08 Mar 2024 13:00:56 +0000 http://thewoksoflife.com/?p=11515 This baked sesame chicken recipe yields deliciously crispy, juicy, and flavorful chicken—without the need for deep-frying! We toss it in a slightly sweet, savory sauce that tastes just like restaurant-style sesame chicken. NOTE: This recipe was originally published on October 13, 2015. We have since updated it with higher resolution photos, metric measurements, and more ... View Post ]]> https://thewoksoflife.com/sesame-chicken/feed/ 187 https://thewoksoflife.com/chicken-lo-mein/?adt_ei=*|EMAIL|* https://thewoksoflife.com/chicken-lo-mein/#comments Thu, 28 Dec 2023 22:15:00 +0000 http://thewoksoflife.com/?p=15479 Chicken Lo Mein is a classic takeout dish we’ve all probably enjoyed. We find, however, that it’s getting harder than ever to get a good lo mein these days! Hence the need for this recipe. Note: This post was originally published on November 19, 2019. We have since updated it with clearer instructions, nutrition info, ... View Post ]]> https://thewoksoflife.com/chicken-lo-mein/feed/ 369 https://thewoksoflife.com/chicken-chop-suey/?adt_ei=*|EMAIL|* https://thewoksoflife.com/chicken-chop-suey/#comments Mon, 04 Dec 2023 16:09:08 +0000 https://thewoksoflife.com/?p=37135 Today we’ve got a recipe for you that harkens back to the early days of Chinese immigration to the United States: Chop Suey. Chinese food in America has evolved much since then, to the point where chop suey itself sounds like an outdated term. But that doesn’t make it any less tasty! Note: This recipe ... View Post ]]> https://thewoksoflife.com/chicken-chop-suey/feed/ 139 https://thewoksoflife.com/chinese-lemon-chicken/?adt_ei=*|EMAIL|* https://thewoksoflife.com/chinese-lemon-chicken/#comments Sat, 04 Nov 2023 06:47:00 +0000 https://thewoksoflife.com/?p=76630 Chinese lemon chicken is a delicious, refreshing alternative to the usual sweet and sour chicken. Fresh lemons really make this chicken dish, and although our sweet and sour chicken recipe nails it every time, this lemon chicken may just become your new favorite.  We’ve gotten many requests for this recipe over the years. Crispy on ... View Post ]]> https://thewoksoflife.com/chinese-lemon-chicken/feed/ 50 https://thewoksoflife.com/takeout-egg-rolls/?adt_ei=*|EMAIL|* https://thewoksoflife.com/takeout-egg-rolls/#comments Sat, 28 Oct 2023 14:45:00 +0000 http://thewoksoflife.com/?p=6910 Egg rolls. They’re the quintessential Chinese takeout food. This easy egg roll recipe is a copycat of the basic version you’ll find in takeout places and Chinese buffets, with cabbage and roast pork in the filling. It’s been a very long time since I was regularly making them in my parents’ takeout restaurant, when we’d ... View Post ]]> https://thewoksoflife.com/takeout-egg-rolls/feed/ 742 https://thewoksoflife.com/mongolian-beef-recipe/?adt_ei=*|EMAIL|* https://thewoksoflife.com/mongolian-beef-recipe/#comments Wed, 11 Oct 2023 15:10:00 +0000 http://thewoksoflife.com/?p=10395 Our Mongolian Beef recipe became one of the most popular Woks of Life recipes after we first published it in July 2015, and for good reason! The Origins of Mongolian Beef But first. What exactly are the origins of Mongolian Beef? Because it’s definitely not Mongolian… In fact, in Mongolia, more often than not, home ... View Post ]]> https://thewoksoflife.com/mongolian-beef-recipe/feed/ 1348