Chinese home cooks pressed for time often round out a meal with meats from the siu mei (roast meat) shop: anything from salt-baked chicken or roast duck to barbecued pork. While the roasts are ...

This is a lower-calorie version of the classic Chinese dish that no one can resist – using chicken instead of duck lowers the fat ... saucepan with the star anise, peppercorns, garlic, ginger ...

a whole chicken that is baked in hot salt and emerges exceedingly juicy and not at all salty. In 2018, Food & Wine named this recipe one of our 40 best. Scholar of Chinese culture and cookbook ...

Not all of us have a local Asian supermarket or Chinese restaurant ... For the thin pancakes to wrap the duck and the hoisin sauce to accompany it, see the recipes on our peking duck platter.

To make the seasoning, place the cinnamon sticks, star anise ... duck and pancakes with the hoisin sauce, carrot, cucumber and spring onion on the side. To make this in advance, follow the recipe ...