Mo Mi Mei means … absolutely nothing in Chinese. It’s a term of endearment that Sumter Pendergrast’s father-in-law uses with his wife, Chi-Lin. When Pendergrast was looking to help open a new Chinese ...

A wave of new restaurants are challenging diners to go beyond sesame chicken and crab Rangoon. In Manhattan, the restaurant Cha Cha Tang serves French toast with violet ube cream alongside classic ...

“It was black bean sauce with bitter melon and beef,” said Jo Situ Allen, chef and co-founder of Mo Mi Mei, Costa Mesa’s new Cantonese street food spot, who cooked her first dish at only 8 years of ...

Among the plentiful cafes, upscale eateries, and boutique shops decorating its streets, Newton Centre plays host to Ding’s Kitchen, a Chinese restaurant with a vast offering that stretches from ...

Sauteed chayote with minced pork, golden yolk luffa, spicy stir-fried clam, crispy stuffed chicken and well-done beef vermicelli from Colette. (Mariah Tauger / Los Angeles Times) No cuisine is a ...

For nearly two decades, Hong Kong Food Street fired up its woks so chefs could cook dishes like lobster tossed with ginger and scallions. Whole chickens simmered away in barrel-sized pots to make ...

Soho Asian Cuisine is the latest addition to a small but growing circuit of New Orleans Chinese restaurants serving the type of dishes you’d actually find in China. In particular, Soho serves ...

Michael St. Angel performs as Elvis at Chef Shangri-La in January 2023. Credit: Maxwell Rabb The parking lot is full, illuminated by a fading yellow sign adorned with a tiki drink and a palm tree.

Last May my colleague Lucas Kwan Peterson wrote a column about a string of 1980s-era Cantonese restaurants that had recently closed in the San Gabriel Valley. The closures included three Monterey Park ...

One of the truly great flavors of this life is roasted meat over plain white rice. There's just something about it. The roast sweats its excess juice onto the rice, as the starchy grain greedily ...