Party poultry

There will be many meals to prepare as family and friends gather during the Spring Festival break. Pauline D. Loh suggests some easy but impressive recipes to wow them all.

My many nephews and nieces are budding gourmets who go online to search for the best dining deals. They are more familiar with Italian pasta and Spanish paella than some of China's more remote provincial cuisine these days and they love my cooking for its occasional exotic quirks that their own mamas frown upon.

And I am happy to please them with French and American classics that they may not get to eat in their culinary adventures in Beijing's restaurants.