Chicken dish gets Chinese New Year off with a bang

Chinese New Year begins Monday, a perfect excuse to try a new stir-fry recipe. I found a good one in Feeding The Dragon (Andrews McMeel, $24.99), a new cookbook I enjoyed as much for the anecdotes as the recipes. It was written by sister and brother Mary Kate and Nate Tate, who logged 9,700 miles biking back roads and trudging through mountain passages to explore Chinese kitchens from grand ...

Cook's Corner: Celebrate lunar year with 'Feeding the Dragon'

Chinese New Year began Monday, a perfect excuse to try a new stir-fry recipe, and I found a fun one in "Feeding the Dragon" (Andrews McMeel, $24.99), a new cookbook I enjoy as much for the anecdotes as the recipes.

Cicero: Celebrate lunar year with 'Feeding the Dragon'

Chinese New Year began Monday, a perfect excuse to try a new stir-fry recipe, and I found a fun one in "Feeding the Dragon" (Andrews McMeel, $24.99), a new cookbook I enjoy as much for the anecdotes as the recipes.

‘Rabo de toro’

On the eve of the Chinese New Year, I was in a Pampango home whose main dinner dish, competing with the lechon, was rabo de toro (ox-tail in sauce). On New Year’s Day itself, I was in another Pampango party that lasted from a late lunch at 1 p.m. to dinner. The birthday celebrant explained that at his age, he and his friends often meet at wakes and funerals so he felt it best to throw one big ...

Three menus to usher in the Dragon

USHER in Chinese New Year with yee sang, the food that symbolises prosperity and good health and other delicious meals at Vistana Hotel here. The hotel is offering three Chinese New Year menus and two types of yee sang.

Chinese New Year: Celebrate the Year of the Dragon

The Chinese New Year is the most important of the traditional Chinese Holidays and 2012 is the Year of the Dragon.