We spoke to Asian chefs to find out which of the continent's kitchen staples are worth picking up. Try these ingredients the next time you want to experiment.

Minh Phan has spent too many hours clarifying that her food is not Vietnamese. The chef, who owns Phenakite, a celebrated Los Angeles fine dining restaurant serving black sesame vichyssoise and dill ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Luis Sinco, Los Angeles Times Asian stir fry with shrimp and broccoli. Cooking Asian Many ways many foods but Just hot sweet sour salt Putting into a few ...

You don't need to dump your pasta and all of its useful cooking water into a colander. Chef Lidia Bastianich uses a tool that ...

In the world of Asian cooking, there are a few essential cooking sauces and condiments that accompany every Asian dish. The familiar find at pho restaurants is hoisin, sriracha and, for the more ...

It’s become so common that it’s almost a food world cliché: now that the weather is chilly and the nights are longer, every restaurant you walk into will have forsaken the tomato salads and corn soups ...

In Singapore for a brief visit, Yan talks to CNA Lifestyle about a lifetime of championing good food, keeping fit, memorable ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Asian grocers aren’t merely the best places to buy groceries if you’re cooking Asian. Sure, they have 26 varieties of soy sauce, chili paste, and rice ...

A wife has received widespread support online after she refused to cook for her husband anymore, after he binned her "horrible" Asian cooking. In a Reddit post, which has amassed 11,000 upvotes since ...

Putting into a few hundred words “the basics of Asian cooking,” the overall aim of today’s column, is such a very Western thing to try to do — and quite impossible. The cuisines of more than 60 ...