Hsiao-Ching Chou’s second cook-book, ‘Vegetarian Chinese Soul Food,’ is a follow-up to her popular Chinese Soul Food and will hit shelves Jan. 15. Hsiao-Ching is known for her sold-out classes that ...

One of the perks of cooking at home is getting to control exactly what’s in your meals—and that’s especially beneficial if you’re vegetarian. While many Chinese dishes that are popular in the ...

Happy Veggie Garden — almost certainly the most upscale, most refined Chinese vegetarian restaurant in the San Gabriel Valley — is not at all where you might expect it to be. But then, very few ...

HSIAO-CHING CHOU’S parents didn’t come to the United States hoping to open a Chinese restaurant. In Taipei, her mother worked as a journalist — one who was “pretty badass, back in the ’60s,” Chou says ...

There’s a new restaurant in town putting a healthy twist on Chinese food, and just because it’s healthy doesn’t mean lack of flavor. Alex Miranda is here with the appetizing details. Some days we all ...

As the food world continues to mine nostalgia plays to riff on birthday cake, Italian-American fare, Pop Tarts, and other bits of quintessential and sometimes questionable Americana, the loose meat ...

I was meandering about the San Gabriel Valley one night, with no particular destination in mind, hoping that a glance into one of our many (many!) mini-mall restaurants might inspire. Coming down ...

Were it not for the “vegan” in its name, on first glance, it’s easy to miss that Jeff’s Vegan serves no animal products. It’s not a place that tries re-create nonvegan food using dairy and meat ...

‘The Vegan Chinese Kitchen: Recipes and Modern Stories from a Thousand-Year-Old Tradition’ by Hannah Che (Potter, $35) Hannah Che gave up meat her junior year of college, learned how to make vegan ...

Dallas’ Goji Café may just have one of the starkest juxtapositions of the food world branded on its front side. With the phrase ‘Healthy Asian Food’ proudly displayed below its restaurant sign, this ...