Doughnuts, dumplings, gourmet fish sticks, where to find the perfect croissant plus a sacrilegious bagel and pre-hippie granola bars. I’m Laurie Ochoa, general manager of food coverage at the L.A.

Chinese breakfast is often experienced quickly, eaten on the go, and rarely questioned, which makes it easy to underestimate how much work goes into it. In this video, I set out to make a complete ...

This is a Tianjin breakfast restaurant in Monterey Park. While workers are ringing up handmade baos for $0.92 a pop, an elderly woman weaves in and out of the kitchen, sometimes momentarily pausing to ...

One of the questions which bothers us every morning is what to make for breakfast? We have the options of upma, poha, bread and butter, but having the same dishes every day can be boring. And when we ...

LIKE everyone else, Chinese people love fast food. Western purveyors of salty, fatty delectables such as McDonald’s and KFC serve up vast quantities of lunch and dinner to the world’s most populous ...

We arrived in China in 2012 in a blur of excitement and exhaustion. In less than three months, I accepted a job in Shanghai, married my then-girlfriend Delores, and we sold two houses, quit our jobs, ...

Chinese people believe a good day's work depends on how you start your morning. One nutritious breakfast can make everything right, even if you get up on the wrong side of the bed. Considering the ...

There are few better ways to understand a culture than by observing the very first moments of the day: how people wake up, interact with their surroundings, and choose certain routines over others ...