To me, Cantonese food is intricate and involves a certain form of fine art in order to whip up dishes for a wholesome experience behind its long culinary history. I often dub it as the French cuisine ...

“To be perfectly frank,” Ling-ya Lee, who came to Los Angeles from Taiwan in 1989, says of her Chinese New Year preparations, “I rarely make dumplings anymore.” Given the high quality of ready-made ...

Cantonese, a southern Chinese dialect with a long history but an uncertain future in China, is being championed around the world in some surprising ways and some unlikely places. At Palacky University ...

Looking for authentic Chinese flavors when eating out? Here are several positive signs that you are in an authentic Chinese restaurant.

First of all, I want to kick off this edition of My Hong Kong with a big “thank you” to everyone who sent messages of support, personal anecdotes and some food for thought in response to my last ...

Laura Ng had a dual motive for taking Cantonese classes at Stanford. As a PhD student in anthropology, she was researching the history of the Inland Empire Chinatowns. She also wanted to communicate ...

Gong Hei Fat Choy. That's Cantonese for happy new year. Year of the Tiger arrives on Feb.1. For many East Asians — including Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese and Thai — Lunar New Year is the biggest ...

From the 19th century to the late 1960s, Chinese food in America in general and in Los Angeles' Chinatown in particular was exclusively Cantonese in origin. Not only was it Cantonese, but specifically ...

SAN FRANCISCO – Officials at the City College of San Francisco announced the school would offer new Cantonese-language certificates, preserving one of the nation's few programs teaching the language.

Take a walk through Chinatown in one of Australia's major capital cities, and you're more than likely to hear the Chinese dialect of Cantonese being spoken. It's a tonal, guttural language, and one ...