Smoke Queen House Pickled Red Onions

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  • Serves

    6 to 8

    • Difficulty

      Easy

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Chinese-American Barbecue: Big-Flavor Asian BBQ from the Smoke Queen

By Winnie Yee

Published 2026

  • About

Every order of our barbecue meats is accompanied by our house pickled red onions. Some people love the onions so much that they order them by the half pint (235 ml)! That’s a lot of breath mints! But I really can’t blame them. It’s a simple balanced recipe that is great for cleansing the palate. When you eat foods rich in fat and flavor, you need something acidic to cut the fat. Things only taste sweeter when you’ve tasted something salty. The same goes for fat and acid. In a way, the pairi

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