Northern-style Lamb with Garlic

A Chinese poet once wrote, ‘There are seventy-two ways of cooking lamb; of these only eighteen or nineteen are palatable.’ These sentiments were widely shared by my family. Childhood memories of growing up at the Chinese-American table were notable for the absence of lamb. It is something we never ate. I discovered lamb when I ventured out into the American world and when I became friends with Chinese-Americans from Taiwan or northern China. This way of preparing it, stir-frying with a lot