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12 Dishes You Should Beg Your Local Chinese Restaurant To Serve

If you're sick of General Tso's and crab rangoon, nudge your local Chinese joint to add these to the menu.

What Is the Difference Between Chow Mein and Lo Mein?

If you’ve ever opened a box of Chinese take-out and it turns out to be not exactly what you ordered, you may have mixed up your meins. That’s right, there is a difference between these two popular Chinese dishes—however, the difference is probably not what you think. While it may be easy to assume that the type of noodles is what makes the dish difference, we all know what happens when you assume. Yes, you’re actually incorrect on this oneSo, if not…

8 Real Chinese Dishes You Should Order Instead Of The American Knockoffs

Order these delicious dishes if you want to sample authentic Chinese food.

PHOTO: Chinese restaurant shares hilarious ‘extremely honest’ menu

This restaurant wants to make sure its menu is completely honest. A Chinese restaurant shared its hilarious ‘extremely honest’ menu and has now since gone viral.

Crave Chinese Food? Tips for Heart-Healthy Asian Cuisine

What 8 Diet Experts Order at Chinese Restaurants

Put your takeout habit to work trimming your waist. Here's how diet experts do it.

China Is Building an Army of Noodle-Making Robots

In the face of rising labor costs, Chinese restaurateur Cui Runguan is selling thousands of robots that can hand slice noodles into a pot of boiling water called the Chef Cui. Runguan says in the...

6 Ways To Maintain Your Mandarin Once You’re Back Home

As part of the Beijinger’s Mandarin Month series that runs daily ahead of our June 25 Mandarin Mixer, we present some useful Chinese learning tips. Today's post offers advice about maintaining your Mandarin fluency after you've left Zhōngguó. This post was created by Project Pengyou.

Does Mandarin have potential as a global language?

Mandarin Chinese language could be poised at some point to overtake English as the central global language, writes Jeffrey Gil, senior lecturer at Flinders University in Australia. In this commentary, he shares several other scenarios: one in which Mandarin and English are both global languages and one in which Mandarin does not emerge as a global language.

Want to Learn Mandarin? Try 1-on-1 Tutoring with Asian Language School

When the opportunity to introduce my daughter to an Asian language came up, I knew I had to sign up. This is our take on that attempt to learn Mandarin.

If you speak Mandarin, your brain is different

Language is traditionally associated with the left side of the brain. But Mandarin speakers are using the right side.

The Hong Kong banking jobs where you must speak Mandarin

We reveal the Hong Kong finance jobs where it's most important that you are fluent in Mandarin.

How To Peel An Orange Without Making A Sticky Mess

Oranges are so very tasty, but are they really worth all the mess that comes with peeling? The zest gets caught underneath your nails and your fingers be...

with my spoken Mandarin and in some cultural understanding

I was lucky that the company helped to organize a great teacher for me and I soon found that being able to say a few things in Mandarin really helped to make a difference here.

You’ve Been Peeling Your Oranges All Wrong

Peel your oranges quickly and get all the fruit off the peel with the innovative method laid out in this video.

The quest to save Cantonese in a world dominated by Mandarin

Globally, Cantonese is being swamped by Mandarin. The two languages are as different as Spanish is from French.