Steamed fish at ShiangMi 31519 W. 12 Mile Rd., Farmington Hills; 248-579-9898; shiangmi.com The emphasis here is on authentic dishes from Hunan; don’t let the server steer you to the “American popular ...

I’ve often puzzled over how restaurants I visit — from Venezuelan to Turkish — are so often filled not with locals, but tourists from Venezuela and Turkey. When I travel, the last thing in the world I ...

Revolutionary Chinese leader Mao Zedong famously said that if you can’t endure the heat of red peppers, you’ll never be much of a fighter. The claim was more or less a boast about the food he’d grown ...