Similar to its sister spices ginger, cardamom, and turmeric, galangal root offers a unique and healthy kick to any dish. If you've ever shopped for ginger root, chances are you may have almost ...

I enjoy reading author Su-Mei Yu because she writes things like, “The perfume released from galangal reminds me of the warm and fresh scent in the air after a heavy downpour of monsoon.” That makes me ...

How many of us, while slurping down a bowl of Asian soup, have noticed a tasty-looking brownish disc, about the size of a quarter, bitten into it, and discovered it to be so woody that you couldn't ...

One of my favorite pastimes is wandering through the aisles of a supermarket in another country or an ethnic market closer to home, perusing the interesting packaging and unfamiliar ingredients. What ...

Although a cousin to ginger, galangal (ga-LANG-gal) has its own distinct flavor and should not be substituted with ginger, advises cookbook author and food writer Corrine Trang in “Essentials of Asian ...

The dumplings arrive underneath wisps of scallion and cucumber, their opaque skins crimped like carnation flowers and tinted butterfly pea blue. Called chor muang, this style of dumpling has ...

If you've ever shopped for ginger root, chances are you may have almost inadvertently grabbed a similar-looking spice called galangal root. Native to Southeast Asia, galangal root looks so similar in ...