On Thanksgiving Day, more than a dozen hopeful holiday diners crammed into benches just outside a worn Sharpstown strip mall. The four families, chattering in Cantonese, English and Mandarin, were ...

Roast duck is a favourite dish of thousands, but many save it for a special occasion. That occasion happens to be today, January 18, referred to as the National Peking Duck Day. The day is celebrated ...

A Peking duck dinner is a feast built from a single ingredient. It starts with nibbling on a taco-like snack of the delicately crisp skin tucked inside thin mandarin pancakes with a lick of earthy ...

MONTEREY PARK >> The deli case at Monterey Palace Restaurant had that familiar, tantalizing caramel glow on Tuesday. Hanging in the window was crackling skin and roasted perfection, a traditional ...

It is axiomatic among some habitués of Chinese restaurants that the more cliché the ambience—the statuette of a pudgy Buddha, the bottles of plum wine on a shelf, the tattered New Year’s dragon ...

Eating Chinese food on Christmas Day has been a well-documented Jewish-American tradition since the early 20th century. More recently, celebrating Christmas with specialties like Peking duck, noodles ...

Considered one of China’s national dishes, Peking duck has inspired poetry, been a staple for the ruling class for generations, and has its own museum in Beijing. Heck, there’s even a KFC breakfast ...