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wok

[wok] / wɒk /
NOUN
frying pan
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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 snatched up my wok as I ran into the seating area and scrambled over to the door that led to the apartment.

From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda

So when I heard that an all-electric food hall on Microsoft's campus in Redmond, Washington, featured a pair of custom-made induction woks, I was eager to try out a climate-friendly stir-fry.

From Salon ● May 15, 2024

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

Roberto’s follows an Asian fusion restaurant, which left behind multiple woks when it closed.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 15, 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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