Pass the Fish Sauce

Here are 2 Moo Shu recipes so you can have it your way And, moo shu is more than a burrito-ish snack. It's about women pushing the Chinese food boundaries.

Here are 2 Moo Shu recipes so you can have it your way • And, moo shu is more than a burrito-ish snack. It's about women pushing the Chinese food boundaries.

Midweek gems #58: Birthdays, Valentines, Lunar New Year + Peking Duck recipe You asked for it: gluten-free Mandarin duck pancakes + chocolate lava cakes + the spicy ginger-orange chicken wing tips

Midweek gems #58: Birthdays, Valentines, Lunar New Year + Peking Duck recipe • You asked for it: gluten-free Mandarin duck pancakes + chocolate lava cakes + the spicy ginger-orange chicken wing tips

Mandarin Pancake Mini Class + a Duckylicious Feast Gather the few ingredients needed and use my step-by-step videos to succeed with ease. And, yes, lots of substitutions and advance prep tips are here too!

Mandarin Pancake Mini Class + a Duckylicious Feast • Gather the few ingredients needed and use my step-by-step videos to succeed with ease. And, yes, lots of substitutions and advance prep tips are here too!

Vietnamese pomelo salad, fit for royalty and doable from supermarket ingredients + pomelo buying guide + video tips to prep it like a pro

Vietnamese pomelo salad, fit for royalty and doable from supermarket ingredients • + pomelo buying guide + video tips to prep it like a pro

midweek gems #57: Herbaceous basics for making Vietnamese food sparkle + 2 ways to preserve fresh Thai basil well + 2 Viet herb primers

midweek gems #57: Herbaceous basics for making Vietnamese food sparkle • + 2 ways to preserve fresh Thai basil well + 2 Viet herb primers

Check out what's in store for PTFS in 2026 The subscriber survey results have been coming in. Here are the results, thus far.

Check out what's in store for PTFS in 2026 • The subscriber survey results have been coming in. Here are the results, thus far.

midweek gems #56 intentional cookbooks + pate chaud in Saigon + Japanese pickled ginger

midweek gems #56 • intentional cookbooks + pate chaud in Saigon + Japanese pickled ginger

PTFS 2026: Your input needed! Help shape the newsletter's future

PTFS 2026: Your input needed! • Help shape the newsletter's future

midweek gems #55: pineapples, processors and pho pineapples + food processor reviews + co-gardening + Instant Pot chicken pho

midweek gems #55: pineapples, processors and pho • pineapples + food processor reviews + co-gardening + Instant Pot chicken pho

Nearly Effortless Pâté Chaud in 3 recipes Go veg or be meaty, bake up minis or small hand pies to savor this Saigon snack

Nearly Effortless Pâté Chaud in 3 recipes • Go veg or be meaty, bake up minis or small hand pies to savor this Saigon snack

midweek gems #54: aloha learnings from the land + turmeric and ginger + bananas + rambutan

midweek gems #54: aloha learnings from the land • + turmeric and ginger + bananas + rambutan

Our favorite stories and recipes of 2025 what we enjoyed learning and cooking

Our favorite stories and recipes of 2025 • what we enjoyed learning and cooking

How pâté chaud, an obsolete French hand pie, endures in Vietnamese culture what they are + where to find them

How pâté chaud, an obsolete French hand pie, endures in Vietnamese culture • what they are + where to find them

season's greetings

season's greetings

Buttery Chestnuts and Red-Cooked Chestnut Chicken, two special recipes for cozy eating whether you go simmered or braised, East or West, you can't go wrong with these nutty delights

Buttery Chestnuts and Red-Cooked Chestnut Chicken, two special recipes for cozy eating • whether you go simmered or braised, East or West, you can't go wrong with these nutty delights

midweek gems #52: Why American Chestnuts Grow on Chinese Trees + indigenous chestnut cooking + Turtle Island by Sean Sherman + celebrating my dad in puff pastry recipes

midweek gems #52: Why American Chestnuts Grow on Chinese Trees • + indigenous chestnut cooking + Turtle Island by Sean Sherman + celebrating my dad in puff pastry recipes

Peel Chestnuts with Ease then Cook them Up Asian style + a how-to video to peel chestnuts + 2 new stunningly good, simple recipes

Peel Chestnuts with Ease then Cook them Up Asian style • + a how-to video to peel chestnuts + 2 new stunningly good, simple recipes

midweek gems #51: make a ramen holiday + ramen noodle hack + delicious sturdy cookies + bargain grocery shopping

midweek gems #51: make a ramen holiday • + ramen noodle hack + delicious sturdy cookies + bargain grocery shopping

Boozy Fruitcake Bites a low-tech, big flavor cakey cookie for the holidays

Boozy Fruitcake Bites • a low-tech, big flavor cakey cookie for the holidays

midweek gems #50: Nitrided Carbon Steel Nonstick Pans + bittersweet reads + Viet-owned White House lookalike

midweek gems #50: Nitrided Carbon Steel Nonstick Pans • + bittersweet reads + Viet-owned White House lookalike

A homemade and homegrown gift guide, the antidote to Black Friday and Cyber Monday harvest, blend, or bake your way to wonderful gifts for food loving people

A homemade and homegrown gift guide, the antidote to Black Friday and Cyber Monday • harvest, blend, or bake your way to wonderful gifts for food loving people

A Simple Burmese Ginger Salad to to Asianize your Thanksgiving table plus many other ideas for sides

A Simple Burmese Ginger Salad to to Asianize your Thanksgiving table • plus many other ideas for sides

midweek gems #49: Helen Goh's Traveling "Speckled Bread", a stunningly good Welsh fruit cake + fried garlic chips worth buying + mapo tofu 4 ways

midweek gems #49: Helen Goh's Traveling "Speckled Bread", a stunningly good Welsh fruit cake • + fried garlic chips worth buying + mapo tofu 4 ways

Tingly, Spicy Mapo Tofu Macaroni and Cheese my cozy casserole full of flavor and life lessons

Tingly, Spicy Mapo Tofu Macaroni and Cheese • my cozy casserole full of flavor and life lessons

midweek gems #48: Silken tofu with ginger syrup + beginner tart tatin + a faux pecan pie treat

midweek gems #48: Silken tofu with ginger syrup • + beginner tart tatin + a faux pecan pie treat

Caramelized Pork and Eggs in Coconut Sauce, a Southern Vietnamese classic It's salty sweet and rich but not too sweet or too rich. It's very southern Viet.

Caramelized Pork and Eggs in Coconut Sauce, a Southern Vietnamese classic • It's salty sweet and rich but not too sweet or too rich. It's very southern Viet.

midweek gems #48: Help wanted with muscle pain relief Share your strategies. Here are mine.

midweek gems #48: Help wanted with muscle pain relief • Share your strategies. Here are mine.

A sure-fire way to boil eggs to your liking + 3 1/2 eggy recipe ideas

A sure-fire way to boil eggs to your liking • + 3 1/2 eggy recipe ideas

midweek gems #47: Treasures in Birmingham, Alabama Asian market, good restaurants, Vietnamese ceramics, and museums

midweek gems #47: Treasures in Birmingham, Alabama • Asian market, good restaurants, Vietnamese ceramics, and museums

Wok-Kissed Tofu-Mushroom Pho -- it fires on all cylinders like the beefy version! a vegetable-foward kin to last week's beefy bowl

Wok-Kissed Tofu-Mushroom Pho -- it fires on all cylinders like the beefy version! • a vegetable-foward kin to last week's beefy bowl