Recently this Chinese vegetable "Bok Choy" (or "Pak Choy") has gain great popularity among cooks here in the States, they are being featured in many celebrity chefs' dishes/cookbooks, and lately big box supermarkets begin carrying them. But if you ever shop at Asian supermarkets and ask for Bok Choy, you might be getting something different, something like this (see picture on the right). So why?

With the weather cold, there is nothing better than to gather your friends and family to enjoy a Hot Pot dinner. All you need is some fresh ingredients: seafood; meat and vegetables; a pot filled with water and a portable tabletop stove. It is quite similar to fondue except this is a full course meal.

I often being asked by readers as to why their stir-fry sometimes did not come out as crisp as it should and my first response is “Do you know the BTU of your cooking range?” Most of the times, we are still using a 5000 or 7000 BTU cooking range, which requires a bit of tweaking in order to accommodate this stir fry technique.