https://thewoksoflife.com/category/recipes/chinese-take-out/ a culinary genealogy Wed, 16 Apr 2025 19:58:20 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 https://thewoksoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/cropped-TWOL-favicon-4-32x32.png https://thewoksoflife.com/category/recipes/chinese-take-out/ 32 32 https://thewoksoflife.com/5-ingredient-lo-mein-recipe/?adt_ei=*|EMAIL|* https://thewoksoflife.com/5-ingredient-lo-mein-recipe/#comments Sat, 12 Apr 2025 14:00:00 +0000 https://thewoksoflife.com/?p=85674 To make this 5-ingredient lo mein recipe, you’ll need lo mein noodles, oyster sauce, soy sauce, scallions, and oil. That’s all.  Chances are, you only have to buy the noodles and you’ve got everything else. It’s silly how easy it is, and it’s so good! It kind of tastes like a pure version of the ... View Post ]]> https://thewoksoflife.com/5-ingredient-lo-mein-recipe/feed/ 17 https://thewoksoflife.com/wonton-egg-drop-soup/?adt_ei=*|EMAIL|* https://thewoksoflife.com/wonton-egg-drop-soup/#comments Sun, 23 Mar 2025 15:34:08 +0000 https://thewoksoflife.com/?p=85466 This Wonton Egg Drop Soup brings back memories of our family’s restaurant days. Why you may have only had it in a Chinese restaurant, it’s so simple to make at home. Just boil your favorite frozen wontons and ladle over this quick, perfectly golden egg drop soup for a delicious and fast meal any time ... View Post ]]> https://thewoksoflife.com/wonton-egg-drop-soup/feed/ 8 https://thewoksoflife.com/egg-foo-young/?adt_ei=*|EMAIL|* https://thewoksoflife.com/egg-foo-young/#comments Thu, 06 Mar 2025 00:14:31 +0000 https://thewoksoflife.com/?p=85248 This is our full guide to making egg foo young—with whatever protein you like. I cooked many orders of egg foo young in my parents’ Chinese restaurant, so if you’ve been chasing that nostalgic taste, but can’t find a restaurant version or egg foo young recipe that tastes like you remember, you’ve landed in the ... View Post ]]> https://thewoksoflife.com/egg-foo-young/feed/ 43 https://thewoksoflife.com/how-to-make-fried-rice-formula/?adt_ei=*|EMAIL|* https://thewoksoflife.com/how-to-make-fried-rice-formula/#comments Sat, 15 Feb 2025 11:49:00 +0000 https://thewoksoflife.com/?p=84949 Today we’re going to teach you how to make fried rice just like Chinese restaurants, with an easy fried rice formula! You can make restaurant-style fried rice out of almost anything if you use the right ratios of rice, protein, vegetables, and seasonings.  We’ve posted over 30 fried rice recipes across The Woks of Life, ... View Post ]]> https://thewoksoflife.com/how-to-make-fried-rice-formula/feed/ 37 https://thewoksoflife.com/pork-egg-foo-young/?adt_ei=*|EMAIL|* https://thewoksoflife.com/pork-egg-foo-young/#comments Wed, 30 Oct 2024 06:16:44 +0000 https://thewoksoflife.com/?p=83578 Roast pork egg foo young is one of the most delicious egg foo young variations! I cooked countless egg foo young patties in my parents’ Chinese restaurant in the 80s and early 90s, so if you’re looking for a real-deal nostalgia-packed recipe—complete with luxurious brown gravy—this is it.  We’ll show you how to fry these ... View Post ]]> https://thewoksoflife.com/pork-egg-foo-young/feed/ 24 https://thewoksoflife.com/chicken-mixed-vegetables/?adt_ei=*|EMAIL|* https://thewoksoflife.com/chicken-mixed-vegetables/#comments Sun, 15 Sep 2024 06:47:00 +0000 https://thewoksoflife.com/?p=81864 This chicken with mixed vegetables recipe a tasty, restaurant-quality Chinese takeout dish that makes it easy to get a variety of vegetables into your diet! You can use whatever vegetables you have on hand. The key is knowing how to prepare them and what order to cook them in.  If you’d rather just follow a ... View Post ]]> https://thewoksoflife.com/chicken-mixed-vegetables/feed/ 33 https://thewoksoflife.com/general-tsos-cauliflower/?adt_ei=*|EMAIL|* https://thewoksoflife.com/general-tsos-cauliflower/#comments Tue, 02 Jul 2024 15:01:16 +0000 http://thewoksoflife.com/?p=11448 General Tso’s Cauliflower is a delicious alternative to classic Chinese takeout General Tso’s Chicken. It’s crispy, super tasty, vegetarian and vegan, and you might just like this recipe more than the chicken version! Cauliflower: A Great Vegetarian Stand-In We were starting to think cauliflower recipes were beginning to go out of style. Or perhaps that ... View Post ]]> https://thewoksoflife.com/general-tsos-cauliflower/feed/ 230 https://thewoksoflife.com/lo-mein-how-to-cook-it-the-right-way/?adt_ei=*|EMAIL|* https://thewoksoflife.com/lo-mein-how-to-cook-it-the-right-way/#comments Mon, 22 Apr 2024 09:46:00 +0000 https://thewoksoflife.com/?p=76921 We have quite a few lo mein recipes in our recipe collection. In fact, searching for lo mein in our archives yields a list like you would see on a Chinese restaurant menu! You can take your pick of your favorites, including beef, chicken, shrimp, pork, vegetable, or even turkey lo mein. Suffice it to ... View Post ]]> https://thewoksoflife.com/lo-mein-how-to-cook-it-the-right-way/feed/ 33 https://thewoksoflife.com/sesame-chicken/?adt_ei=*|EMAIL|* https://thewoksoflife.com/sesame-chicken/#comments Fri, 08 Mar 2024 13:00:56 +0000 http://thewoksoflife.com/?p=11515 This baked sesame chicken recipe yields deliciously crispy, juicy, and flavorful chicken—without the need for deep-frying! We toss it in a slightly sweet, savory sauce that tastes just like restaurant-style sesame chicken. NOTE: This recipe was originally published on October 13, 2015. We have since updated it with higher resolution photos, metric measurements, and more ... View Post ]]> https://thewoksoflife.com/sesame-chicken/feed/ 192 https://thewoksoflife.com/chicken-lo-mein/?adt_ei=*|EMAIL|* https://thewoksoflife.com/chicken-lo-mein/#comments Thu, 28 Dec 2023 22:15:00 +0000 http://thewoksoflife.com/?p=15479 Chicken Lo Mein is a classic takeout dish we’ve all probably enjoyed. We find, however, that it’s getting harder than ever to get a good lo mein these days! Hence the need for this recipe. Note: This post was originally published on November 19, 2019. We have since updated it with clearer instructions, nutrition info, ... View Post ]]> https://thewoksoflife.com/chicken-lo-mein/feed/ 375