Hi, I'm Mandy

I teach home cooks to make the Chinese food they love.

Self-taught, in my own kitchen — the same dishes you'd order from your favorite takeout spot, made achievable at home. And the tools I use to cook them.

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Mandy as a child with her younger sister

My story

It started with feeding my sisters.

I grew up in Guangdong, China. My parents worked construction, long hours, so by the time I was ten I was the one cooking for my younger sisters. Nobody taught me — I figured it out at the stove, one dinner at a time.

Years later I moved to Florida, and I noticed something: the Chinese dishes I'd grown up making were the same ones people here loved to order out, but almost nobody thought they could cook them at home. They seemed intimidating. They aren't.

So in 2016 I started filming. One recipe at a time, in English, in a real home kitchen — showing that the food you love from your favorite takeout spot is absolutely something you can make yourself.

The mission

Authentic Chinese cooking, made achievable in any Western kitchen.

I take the techniques I grew up with and adapt them for everyday home kitchens and Western stoves — no restaurant equipment, no hard-to-find shortcuts. Fried rice, chow mein, char siu, sweet and sour pork. Real dishes, done properly, in a way that actually works where you cook.

Why Curated Kitchenware exists

I couldn't find a wok that worked on my stove. So I made one.

Traditional woks are built for round, roaring restaurant burners. On a flat Western electric or induction stove, they wobble and never get hot enough. I kept telling viewers which tools to use, then realized the tool I most wanted didn't exist.

So in 2018 I designed a flat-bottom carbon steel wok that actually works on the stoves people really have. That became Curated Kitchenware. Everything here is a tool I reach for in my own kitchen — the wok, the clay pot, the knives, the chopsticks. Designed in my kitchen, made for yours.

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What we've built together

A community of home cooks.

3M+

Followers worldwide

Across Souped Up Recipes, since 2016

400+

Free video recipes

All free to watch, always

5,000+

Five-star wok reviews

Verified on Amazon

168

Recipes in the cookbook

Better Than Takeout, in print

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I'm not a trained chef. I'm a home cook who taught herself, standing at a stove, one dish at a time. That's exactly the point — if I could figure it out, so can you.

Mandy Fu

Founder, Curated Kitchenware · Souped Up Recipes