Chinese Food (Cuisine)
Won Ton Soup and Other Essential New York Tastes, Updated at Bonnie’s
When generations of New Yorkers talked about going out for Chinese food, they were almost always talking about Cantonese food. It was what the city’s early Chinese immigrants ate as they tried to recreate meals they once knew in the southern province of Guangdong, when it was still called Canton. Adapted for non-Chinese palates, it […]
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A Fresh Take on Orange Chicken
Peeling an orange releases a spritz of natural oils that coats fingers with a citrus perfume, teasing at the fruit inside. The floral zest and juicy segments are easy to love, but the pith in between, not so much. In its raw state, the white pith is painfully bitter, but that bitterness is what makes […]
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Ed Schoenfeld, Impresario of Chinese Cuisine, Dies at 72
Mr. Schoenfeld became obsessed with Chinese food early on. “I must have been 11 or 12 when I first went to the Great Shanghai on Broadway and 102nd Street,” he told the website Serious Eats in 2018. “I remember having my first spring roll! Not an egg roll — this was thinner and more delicate.” […]
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Restaurant Review: Cha Kee in Manhattan’s Chinatown
All good New Yorkers know that Lower Manhattan would lose a piece of its identity if Chinese businesses disappeared from Chinatown. In Little Italy, when the Italian Americans moved away, real estate brokers scrubbed one part of the area of its ethnic identity by renaming it NoLIta. If this tactic is successful a few blocks […]
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