wok
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He has a taste for street food, and appears on social media wearing a T-shirt and shorts while stir-frying with a wok, or performing 1980s Thai pop on the saxophone or piano.
From Barron's ● Feb. 8, 2026
We taste-tested two robot wok restaurants in L.A. to determine whose cooking reigns supreme.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 21, 2025
It's reminiscent of a cooking wok or the upswept eaves of a Chinese temple.
From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2025
At 75, she’s been at it for more than half-a-century and still frequently works the sole wok at the Merry Go Round.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2025
I backed away, waving the wok in front of me.
From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda
Although Yan reported that some hotels in China like the Hilton and Marriott already exclusively use induction woks, commercial induction kitchens are rare in the United States.
From Salon ● May 15, 2024
No longer out of reach for China’s middle class, beef now sizzles in home woks and restaurant kitchens.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 2, 2023
Eric Tran, the chef and owner of the Vietnamese restaurant Falansai in Brooklyn, said that gas was the “only way” for some techniques used in Asian cooking, such as cooking with woks.
From New York Times ● Jan. 14, 2023
He traveled to the Malaysian street food mecca of Penang and marveled at the vendors firing their woks with charcoal.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2022
Cooks dropped fish heads into woks of hissing oil, and urchins threaded their way underfoot searching for unguarded valuables.
From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer
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