We teach you how to cook delicious vegetables with less planning and clean up.

The secret to cooking easy and delicious vegetable dishes is choosing high-quality ingredients.

Download your FREE guide to picking high-quality produce.

 

Are you tired of figuring out what to make for dinner?

Learn a vegetable-first cooking approach in a series of online courses that we’re developing. We’ll help you save time and energy by teaching you how to make impromptu vegetable dishes from ingredients in your fridge, or from whatever looks fresh at the market.

Sign-up to get notified when the first course launches!

 

Are you bored of making the same things?

Our vegetable-first cooking method teaches you how to cook a wide variety of vegetables with limitless flavour combinations. You’ll discover new and unique dishes without needing recipes.

4-Step Approach to Eating More Vegetables with Fewer Dishes

We use Chinese-inspired techniques to help you prep and cook smarter.

We’ve spent years optimizing our 4-step approach to help people cook delicious vegetable dishes with minimal planning and clean up.

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Learn to pick the best ingredients.

Great tasting food starts with high-quality (not necessarily expensive) ingredients.  Our method of cooking works with any vegetable, so you can pick what is fresh and not be limited to a specific recipe.

 
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2.

Minimize prep time.

When you’re not limited to a specific recipe, you can make impromptu decisions about how much prep time you want to spend. We’ll show you how to prep efficiently, as well as how to get faster each time you cook.

 
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3.

Keep the crisp in the veg.

Gone are the sad days of soggy veggie slop after spending all that time and energy.  We’ll show you how to cook veggies that are full of flavour and crunch.

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4.

Enjoy more time eating, not doing dishes.

After your belly is full and content, the last thing you want to do is spend a few hours doing dishes.  We teach an approach that is continuously mindful of (perhaps even obsessed about!) minimizing pots, dishes, and tools.

 

What People Are Saying …

“Karen ran a great cooking (and eating) workshop for a group of friends, and I'm still using some of the techniques she taught us. She expanded my cooking horizons in a fun and accessible way.”

— Lauren A.,San Francisco, CA

I really enjoy Asian Food Lab's classes.  Not only am I learning how to cook delicious food, but I am doing it from the comfort of my own kitchen.  Karen is knowledgeable, patient and well organized.  I have learned so much about cooking.  Highly recommended!

— Melanie H., Walnut Creek, CA


 
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Hi, I’m Karen Wong.

I believe that people shouldn’t have to spend a ton of effort to make healthy and delicious meals at home.  I created Asian Food Lab to teach a vegetable-first way of cooking that meets you where you are, at any time, so that you can always eat well.