Clarissa Wei's Taiwanese pride is unmistakable. Salon Food spoke with Wei in accordance with the release of this new cookbook, discussing the recipes itself, Taiwanese cuisine at large, what was most ...

Taiwanese American cookbook author Clarissa Wei tends to a pork belly dish in her kitchen in New Taipei City, Taiwan. (An Rong Xu / For The Times) Armed only with an address in Chinese and a link to ...

Martha Cheng is a writer and editor based in Honolulu and has been writing about Hawai‘i for almost two decades. “I’m not a food influencer or a professional chef,” Clarissa Wei says. “A lot of people ...

This classic soup gets its richness from meltingly tender braised beef. This immensely popular dish underscores Taiwan’s recent history, as it is made with beef and wheat-based noodles, which weren’t ...

Recipe from THE FOOD OF TAIWAN by Cathy Erway. Copyright 2015 by Cathy Erway. Used by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved ...

Tucked inside Western Michigan University’s new student center is a bustling new restaurant offering noodles, dumplings and much more. Hou Jia, 1070 Arcadia Loop, opened in early September for a ...

As Wei puts it, there’s a minimalism about Taiwanese food that she both cherishes and appreciates, which bridges the historic, storied cuisine with the ease of a weeknight meal: “If you can whip up an ...