Exploring Homemade Chinese Dishes with Chef Katie Chin’s Everyday Chinese Cookbook

Chinese family recipes

Disclosure: I received a copy of this cookbook to review.  All opinions are my own. “Katie Chin’s Everyday Chinese Cookbook: 101 Delicious Recipes from My Mother’s Kitchen” has a delicious collection of recipes that you can prepare at home for the whole family.  Many of the dishes can be made with the help of children.  Before exploring all the recipes, you will learn about Chinese ingredients, basic cooking tips, essential tools and utensils then the must-know sauces

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Chinese Culture for Kids Series: Dragon Boat Festival – Duān Wǔ Jié 端午節 Coloring Pages

A special Thank You to Miss Panda’s artist friend, Matt Cox for creating the Dragon Boat Festival coloring pages for all the readers on Miss Panda Chinese!  Matt speaks English, Japanese and he has been learning Mandarin Chinese together with his daughter. Note: The following copyrighted coloring pages are for non-profit educational use only. Dragon Boat – Lóng Zhōu 龍舟   Dragon – Lóng 龍     Related post: Learning About Dragon Boat Festival    Save Save

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Chinese Cooking with Kids: Let’s Make Chinese Dumplings

Let's Make Dumplings | Miss Panda Chinese

Chinese Lunar New Year:  Lucky Food to Eat The Lunar New Year’s Eve family reunion dinner in Chinese community is the feast with the most symbolic dishes to carry good luck to the new year.  You can see and enjoy the lucky food during the 15 days of the Chinese Lunar New Year celebration and the New Year’s Eve day.  Why are these food or dishes considered lucky?  Why Chinese dumplings?  They are auspicious because of their

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Chinese Culture for Kids Series: Top Songs for Chinese Lunar New Year

Chinese New Year – Spring Festival – Lunar New Year is coming and I have selected three songs for you to learn and sing with the family or friends for the Chinese New Year.  These are not the classic traditional songs for the Chinese New Year.  These are the contemporary songs that will go very well with the celebration of the Lunar New Year!  I include the lyrics in Chinese characters and pinyin for you to follow

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Meet Allison Branscombe, Author of All About China Stories, Songs, Crafts and More for Kids

Watch the global education conversation with Allison Branscombe, author of All About China – Stories, Songs, Crafts and More for Kids.  I am excited to share Allison’s resourceful and engaging Chinese culture book for children, All About China with you on the 2nd day of the Chinese Lunar New Year in the interview.  Learn about behind the scene stories about this fabulous book, the importance of world culture awareness for children, and the cultural journey with Allison

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Chinese Culture for Kids Heritage Series: A Celebration of Cultural Heritage with Kids: Taiwan & China

{Asian-Pacific American Heritage Month Blog Hop} May is Asian-Pacific American Heritage Month.  We are celebrating cultures and sharing our cultural heritage with children! First, what is cultural heritage? “Cultural heritage is the legacy of physical artifacts and intangible attributes of a group or society that are inherited from past generations, maintained in the present and bestowed for the benefit of future generations.” – wikipedia For me, my heritage culture is Chinese from Taiwan and China.  I like

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Chinese for Kids Song Series: Traditional Chinese Lunar New Year Songs

As we await the arrival of the Year of the Rooster on January 28th I would like to share some of the traditional Chinese songs performed by several flash mobs.  In the video below we go on a tour to experience the Lunar New Year culture in Taipei, Taiwan. You will see Dí Huà Street, the well-known Lunar New Year Boulevard, where you can purchase almost everything you need for the Chinese New Year. You will also

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Chinese Culture for Kids Craft Series: Fun Spiral Snake Craft Project for the Year of the Snake

2013 is the Chinese Year of the Snake. Did you know that in Chinese culture the “Year of the Snake” is also known as the “Year of the Little Dragon?!” Here is a Fun Spiral Snake craft you can make at home with your child.  I have created the design for you to print out on stock paper. What you need: 1. Stock paper any color 2. Scissors 3. String 4. Glue 5. Hole punch 6. Sequins

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Chinese New Year Blog Party and Giveaway!

February 10th marks the beginning of the Chinese Lunar New Year in 2013.  This coming Saturday evening we say “farewell” to the auspicious dragon of 2012 and “welcome!” to a prosperous Year of the Snake!  Chinese people also call the Year of the Snake the Year of the “Little Dragon.”  In Mandarin Chinese rather than call this occasion “the Chinese New Year ” we call it “the Spring Festival” (Chūn jié – 春節 (春节)) or “the Lunar

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