American Chinese restaurant menus are rife with evidence of the evolution of traditional Chinese recipes, as they were first cooked to cure homesickness and then to make a living. Much like many of ...

By now, Alexa knows your favorite Chinese chicken dish. But if it's this sugar-fried favorite, you'll want to set your voice ...

After years of perfecting Chinese takeout favorites at home, I’ve discovered that making restaurant-quality sweet and sour ...

The Lunar New Year festival usually lasts for 15 days and focuses on family reunions, but if you can't be with loved ones in person this year, at least you can make some delicious (and lucky) food at ...

A sweet and sour combo dish, left, and gluten-free dish, right, at Silver Pond Chinese restaurant. Owners Jack and Jennie Hu established their restaurant in 1996. “The sweet and sour combo is one of ...

There’s an old maxim that every culture has a version of chicken soup. I’m adding an addendum to that commonplace canon: agrodolce. In Italian, it’s sour (agro) and sweet (dolce); in French, ...

When a Chinese person urges me to try a specific Chinese restaurant in Omaha, I take that recommendation seriously. This month, when my friend Ying Zhu, an Omaha artist and a judge on the September ...

Mehr Singh is a food and culture reporter based in New York. Her work appears in Bon Appétit, Food52, and other publications. For better or for worse, everyone has encountered sour fruit. Many farms ...