The history of Chinese food and cooking, methods, and styles. An educated gastronomist is one who can open one's mind and palate to new recipes and flavors.

Chinese American Great Food / Great Location What would the landscape of America look like if there weren’t a CVS, Walgreen’s, McDonald’s, or Chinese restaurant seemingly on every corner?  Throw in some immigrating Jews, and it’s all about supply and demand.  The perfect marriage of Chinese, American, and Jews, come all together to make the perfect union and market for ...

Recipe for Chinese Chicken and Broccoli (Low carb and Gluten free) Let’s start off this series of articles on healthy and low carb recipes with a dish that’s easy to make and the staple of many Chinese restaurants.  Or at least take-out Chinese restaurants.  Now you can make it at home and eat and live healthy.  The only thing missing ...

Review of Red Tiger Dumpling House Almost like a mirage appearing amidst the miles and miles of strip malls, big box stores, shopping malls, gas stations, fancy steak houses, and a Duane Reade, we found a hidden oasis just off of Rte 347 in Stony Brook.   Ever since we got turned on to Soup Dumplings at Joe’s Shanghai in ...

Guest Review of King Yum Revisiting King Yum, Decades Later This is another guest review submitted by Mee Rich Yee, who’s becoming quite a regular contributor to The Chinese Quest.  This is a review of King Yum in Hillside Queens.  I love the look of the restaurant, and I love reading Rich’s articles.  There’s a link at the bottom of ...

The Quest For Great Chinese Food A Long Term Odyssey   One of my fondest memories is that every other Thursday evening, I went with my family for a Chinese dinner. It was a sort of convoluted adventure, because my parent’s (who had 2 homes) kept one Kosher home, and one that was not! We would leave our Kosher home ...

American Chinese food is different from the native Oriental cuisine in many ways. Let's compare and contrast the use of vegetables. Read more!

Northern Manor Restaurant Review Last night, for the first time in like, umm, Never, I didn’t post a review of our Quest on the same day that we went.  I needed some time to digest my thoughts in order to write a cogent review.   However, the food went down easy. We strayed just across the Nassau County border in to ...

This morning The Chinese Quest postponed their planned review of a Chinese restaurant scheduled for this coming week in Chinatown. Read more!

Night Lightning - In this case I'm not actually talking about food. I'm talking about how fast our blog webpages are served up to you. Read more!