Zoe Ma Ma is a weird little place, slightly ratty and tatty, definitely earthy, often chaotic and occasionally quiet, with the only audible hums coming from the kitchen of Anna Zoe, the slight, ...

Braised pork with rice and chopped peppers is the star dish at Luyixian, a new restaurant in Alhambra that combines several regional Chinese cuisines, including Shanghai and Sichuan. (Mel Melcon / Los ...

Let me set the stage for you. My Monday after Thanksgiving was hectic. I was so busy, I skipped lunch. Here’s why this is important: While most anything tastes great when you’re that hungry, I was ...

The Sichuan food was so impressive at Xin Wei Kitchen that, even though I got off on the wrong foot at the restaurant, I left dancing (read: moving erratically). Inhabiting a narrow but tidy little ...

The secret sauce and spices of Sichuanese cooking. Get ready for a master class. Recipes included. This delicious example of Buddhist trompe l’oeil cooking is based on a memorable version I enjoyed in ...

Tea-smoked duck anyone? Hand-pulled noodles? Long Island is in the midst of an efflorescence of great, regional Chinese restaurants and such vaunted dishes, once requiring a trip to Chinatown, are ...

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One of the major, recent changes in dining out on Long Island has been the rise of more authentic Chinese restaurants. Devotees of terrific Chinese food still lament the closing in 2007 of Hunam in ...

Some of the menu ingredients at Mala House, a new restaurant in the Idaho Asian Plaza, might draw gasps from diners in culture-sheltered Idaho. At least timid ones. Newly opened at 3027 N. Cole Road, ...