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 smacked the wok on the side of the metal container.
From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda
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In cities like San Francisco and Los Angeles, some restaurant owners serving Chinese, Thai, and other Asian cuisines using woks have expressed concerns that local gas bans could jeopardize signature tastes and textures.
From Salon ● May 15, 2024
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
Roberto’s follows an Asian fusion restaurant, which left behind multiple woks when it closed.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 15, 2022
Flames under the woks will roar to life.
From New York Times ● Feb. 28, 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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