not gourmet) experience, consider taking home pre-cooked freshies from the supers (Stater Bros has best among the majors IOHO). Just add lemon, sourdough & a bottle of dry white & voila. Forget crackers & hammers, use a pair of...

Here’s a variation on Joyce Chen's wings I’ve been preparing for the past 20+ years. They’re simple and can be prepared in advance. 2lbs. chicken wings or drumettes 1/2 C. cooking oil 4 quarter size slices of fresh...

broccoli; and beef with bean curd.” Also Joyce Chen (on Mem Drive); Peking Garden (Lexington); Peking on Mystic (Medford). Definitely reflects the whole Joyce Chen Mandarin/Szechuan craze just taking off. Put together by 2...

-1 If you really want to lower it by a lot, you can use a more opened one, but make sure you don’t put a heavy pot on this, because it has less support: http://www.amazon.com/Joyce-Chen...

traveling kit (non-stick Joyce Chen wok, 4 cup measuring cup, wooden spoon, carnaroli rice, and my spreadsheet of ingredient amounts for different numbers of servings, et cet.)

That version is usually listed on menus as "spicy salt calamari." Re: calamari. Supposedly, when Joyce Chen opened her first restaurant in the North End in the '50s, she called potstickers “Peking ravioli” (a term you...

The Wok is great. The head chef is really good, trained by Joyce Chen, but they don’t necessarily do a great job communicating or selling their more authentic and special stuff. If you talk to them and ask for the special...

Red Leaf took over the Osaka location in South Nashua a while back. Osaka was an older Japanese restaurant owned by the ex-husband of Joyce Chen and run by a Chinese staff. The sushi was mediocre burb sushi, but the rest of the...

I’ve tried all kinds of non-stick pans, including the “durable” ones like Scanpan, WearEver and the Joyce Chen flat-bottom wok. At least the way I use them, the coating gives out after a year, even though I use...

America’s Test Kitchen gave the highest rating to The Joyce Chen line of woks. I have been using 2 , a small and large for years and can attest to their fantastic performance. Heavy, non-stick with great heat conduction....

://www.wickedabostonbistro.com/menu Just moved to Sharon from (gulp!) the heart of Los Angeles and are very happy w/ Alice’s for take out one/month. Apparently, Alice is the niece of the famous Asian chef/cookbook author...

I have a chof-K certified hoisin sauce from the Joyce Chen brand. I doubt it’s particularly authentic, but I suppose I don’t know the difference. In Chinatown, there’s a vegan restaurant called Buddha Bodhai,...

as it gets. Her pork Moo-shi is also good; it tastes just like what Joyce Chen's served in their prime. The Peking Ravs are also very good, plus they’re served in that irresistable hot dipping sauce.

(unlamented) Joyce Chen brought in a Cantoneese (Shanghaieese?)Noodle Master for some special dinners on Rindge ave. He put on a noodle folding demonstration: those who ordered the special dinner were treated to this dude folding...

remembers when Joyce Chen was a pacesetter...?) What say you Cantabrigians about its current state? Basically, the problem in Cambridge may be that real estate is too pricey to sustain as many good Asian eateries as it once did.