ABOUT A DECADE ago, this correspondent attended a banquet in Guangzhou. The bird’s nest soup was gentle and slithery, the sea cucumber rich and gelatinous and the fish sparklingly fresh and perfectly ...

Unlike the lucky New Year’s foods in the West, the making of dumplings is a family bonding activity in Northern China. That’s why the dumpling-making scene in Crazy Rich Asians resonated so hard with ...