Following is a transcript of the video. Medha Imam: What do you get when you combine ancient cooking methods with China's most common food? A delectable Cantonese dish and a Hong Kong favorite called ...

Clay pot rice, or bao zai fan, is a Cantonese dish where rice is cooked in a clay pot over direct heat with meats and ...

Cooking for yourself can sometimes feel like one of the most difficult, energy-draining tasks. A majority of recipes yield multiple servings, plus it may not feel entirely worth it to spend hours on a ...

At Nature Pagoda, the crucial moment of your meal is when the super-heated clay pot hits your table, a small bowl of dark sauce balanced on its dome-shaped lid. A server hands you the sauce. A server ...

If you listen carefully, you can hear crackling inside the scorching-hot glazed casserole. It’s the sound of fan jiu, crispy rice, forming at the bottom of the clay pot, the vessel that this ...

Clay pots are filled with rice, ginger, scallion, soy sauce, and a protein and then cooked over a fire. As the restaurant explains it, clay pot cooking is particularly sought after for the edges of ...

Unlike most of the 7 billion people on Earth, our family didn't really eat rice. I have no idea why this inexpensive, filling staple rarely made it to our table, but it didn't. I've since made up for ...

Nature Pagoda in San Gabriel. Photo by Stan Lee. Jonathan Gold has been eating at Nature Pagoda for over a decade. Once he got around to reviewing it, Gold found that the restaurant is the only place ...

An array of clay pot dishes await at Best Taste Restaurant. I have a confession to make: I was a picky eater as a kid. I ate my burgers plain, without ketchup, mayo, or veggies. At Chinese family ...

â Rice Plate Journal is a yearlong project to canvas Chinatown, block by block, discovering the good, the bad, and the hopelessly mediocre. Maximum entrée price: $10. Each time I stop in for lunch at ...