Stir-fried Watercress: Chinese-Style - The Woks of Life

Watercress (西洋菜,sai yeung choi in Cantonese or xī yáng cài in Mandarin),  is a super healthy vegetable often overlooked at the market because people don’t know how to prepare it. Making this stir-fried watercress at home is an easy, delicious, and healthy way to change up the vegetables on your dinner table.

Water Spinach: What It Is & How to Cook It: What It Is & How to Cook It - The Woks of Life

Water spinach, known as ong choy in Cantonese or kōngxīn cài (空心菜) in Mandarin, is a hollow-stemmed leafy green vegetable native to Asia.

Stir Fried Garlic Spinach with Mustard Seeds

[Photograph: Max Falkowitz] If you've had dim sum, there's a good chance you've had water spinach, stir fried with garlic till just wilted. It's a clean, simple dish that shows greens at their best, and one that takes quite well...

Spiced Tofu Stir-Fry with Garlic Chives

This Spiced Tofu Stir-Fry with Chinese Garlic Chives is a vegan and vegetarian recipe that takes just 20 minutes to make––Chinese home cooking at its best.

Stir Fried Bok Choy with Tofu Skin (腐皮青菜)

Stir-fried Bok Choy with Tofu Skin is a delicious vegan dish made with dried bean sticks. Tofu skin is a great alternative to meat to go with fresh bok choy

Spicy Sichuan Boiled Tofu (水煮豆腐干)

This Sichuan boiled tofu, or shuǐzhǔ dòufu gān (水煮豆腐干) is an adapted version of Sichuan boiled beef that's vegetarian, vegan, and very tasty!

Home-Style Tofu with Mushrooms, Spinach, and Fermented Black Beans

Home-style bean curd is one of those humble recipes that has as many variations as cooks. That's probably because it takes a bunch of simple ingredients and makes them taste robust, meaty, and much more filling than they have any right to be. We have fermented black beans to thank for this.

Ong Choy with XO sauce

Ong Choy or water spinach is a popular Chinese leafy green vegetable that’s worth pairing with luxurious XO sauce. Ong Choy has become a "standard" offering at Chinese restaurants

Everyday Vegetable Stir-Fry

Use up whatever veggies you have on hand or left over in the fridge to make this tasty, flexible, everyday vegetable stir-fry recipe.

Spicy Hunan Steamed Tofu & Mushrooms (VEGAN!) - The Woks of Life

This Chinese steamed tofu recipe is packed with flavor from caramelized oyster mushrooms and a spicy Hunan chili sauce with ginger, garlic, and scallions.