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Your favorite hot sauce cannot hold up to any one of these chili crisps.

Related Department prides itself on research and building concepts plus a few puns and jokes Founded by Scarlett Xin Meng in 2017, the Shanghai-based studio has since worked on a wide range of commissions across the print and digital spheres. Words In 2017, Scarlett Xin Meng founded the independent graphic design studio Related Department (有关设计部门). A place of research and experimentation, the studio now boasts an impressive portfolio abound with printed and digital matter spanning p...

These days when I open my fridge, a stack of chile crisp jars greets me. I’ve been collecting them for months now; I currently have at least 10 different chile crisps and oils, ready to turn up the volume on anything I make. I don’t think I’m alone. From Sze Daddy sauce from 886, a Taiwanese restaurant in NYC, to the classic Lao Gan Ma, which started the chile oil boom in America, chile crisp — which, put simply, is a condiment with oil and chile flakes — is so hot right now. There a...

When choosing a cut of pork for this dish, Sin recommends the shoulder chop (known as  mui tau yuk in Cantonese) over the usual pork loin chop often found in Chinese-American eateries thanks to its marbling and fat content. The best way to tenderise this cut is to pummel it with the blunt side of a cleaver in a diamond pattern, until the meat is half as thick. Every component of the pork marinade serves a function, from the corn starch creating a velvety texture, and the role of Shaoxing wine ...

How restaurant owners are showing support for Asian-American communities amid a surge of hate crimes.

Where To Get Your Lunar New Year Feast In NYC arrow Noodles at Wo Hop Scott Lynch / Gothamist Its New Years Day today for the more than a billion people around the world who follow the lunar calendar, and I think we all can agree that the outgoing Year of the Rat was, uh, considerably less than auspicious. So, hell yeah, welcome Year of the Ox! And while theres no big Chinatown Lunar New Year Parade this weekend, nor those wonderfully raucous Lion Dances of "Super Saturd...

A group of prominent Asian-American chefs and restaurants owners in New York — who represent some of the top restaurants in the city including Málà Project, Fish Cheeks, and Nowon — have teamed up to raise awareness about the recent rise in hate crimes against Asian Americans, particularly the elderly, in the United States. The effort, called #EnoughIsEnough, was spearheaded by Eric Sze, chef and owner of East Village Taiwanese restaurant 886, who says he was prompted to take action afte...

The Meals4Heroes charity recently resurrected its unique COVID-19 relief plan.

Second COVID-19 wave resurrects charitable effort to feed NYC’s stressed-out hospital heroes, save local restaurants Larry McShane © Provided by New York Daily News April 13, 2020: Lincoln Hospital received meals from Junzi Kitchen. Meals4Heroes has resurrected its two-headed pandemic charity relief plan, pairing financially-troubled local restaurants with hungry frontline hospital workers to protect the sanity of overworked nurses and the solvency of nervous business owner...

  New Yorkers stuck to the century-old tradition of celebrating New Year in Times Square on Thursday with live performance but no massive live audience.   Most revelers who would have flocked to Times Square, referred to as the Crossroads of the World, joined people from other places to virtually celebrate the advent of New Year 2021 amid the COVID-19 pandemic.     Viewers are enabled to enjoy a commercial-free webcast coverage of the celebrations via mobile streaming or on social media, we...