About
Dr. Yang is the founder of Pepper Twins – a restaurant chain dedicated to bringing delicious and healthy Sichuan styled Chinese cuisine to food lovers. Dr. Yang has transformed her career from a cancer researcher to a successful restauranteur. (You can find her recent publication online, keyword: YY146, Yunan Yang.)
From the experiences of our initial stores, our team has learned and continues to learn from the suggestions and input from guests, friends, and colleagues from area restaurants. Dr. Yang and her team have been giving their very best to provide high quality ingredients in every meal. We will continue to put brand name and more details of our journey on the menu and our website. We understand everyone has a different opinion on health and what is considered healthy, and we respect everyone’s opinion. Here at Pepper Twins, we follow our tradition, our value, our system, and our standard in our pursuit. We continue to invite genuine comments and suggestions to help us grow and improve.
An Introduction of Our Ingredients:
We want to address some of the questions about our dishes and provide an overview of what we serve our guests.
One of the most unique ingredients in our meals is peppercorn – imported from Dr. Yang’s hometown in Sichuan, China, approved by the FDA, and inspected by health department from the City of Houston.
At Pepper Twins, we use Spring Mountain chicken meat, supplied by one of the top food providers in the country (who uses no hormone and no antibiotics). Also, we use farm old hen (1.5 -2.2 years) for our chicken soup. In Chinese culture, we believe this brings out the most amount of nutrition (in Dr. Yang’s hometown, this type of soup is frequently prepared for new mothers who just delivered their babies).
As for Pork, Dr. Yang’s own family only eats farm raised pork – and that’s the type of meat that we use. Here, we choose Berkshire pork front shoulder meat. Some dishes, such as chitt’lin’s…etc, contain ingredients that Berkshire does not carry or provide. Therefore, those dishes do not contain the premium marker (the “Premium, Farm Raised, Homemade” marker) on our menus.
When it comes to Beef, Dr. Yang chooses Certified Angus beef (CAB). For the dishes that contain ingredients that are not CAB, our menus do not carry the premium marker (the “Premium, Farm Raised, Homemade” marker) on such items.
For eggs, there are two dishes that involve the use of organic eggs: sautéed organic eggs with tomatoes, and fried rice. All of the organic eggs that we use are purchased from our supplier every week.
During other meat preparations, we used regular egg white to seal some special meat and separate them before cooking, in order to minimize the influence of air on the freshness of the meat. For guests who have other preferences, we ask you to avoid those particular items. Please talk to one of our team members about it.
On rice, we only choose Kokuho rice. Unfortunately, we do not have brown rice as an option at this time.
Vegetables: our team tries our best to obtain the freshest vegetable available. Not all of our vegetable dishes are organic; and we believe that all vegetables can provide daily nutrition, whether organic or not.
Regarding Seafood: Dr. Yang chooses Tilapia, and farm raised whole fish from our local wholesale provider. In her hometown, people love Tilapia, as do many if not all of our guests. We ask our guests to order the dishes in accordance with their preference.
We do not use MSG and do not ask our chefs to add MSG to our dishes. We have also tried our best to limit their use, although it has been brought to our attention that certain sauces or spices may contain MSG. For our guests who are sensitive or allergic to any particular food item, please notify our managers or team members so our team can prepare accordingly.
We frequently receive requests for gluten free dishes from our guests. We have identified those dishes with the Gluten Free markers on our menus.
Here at Pepper Twins, our founder’s philosophy is: happiness makes one healthy. We hope our delicious dishes will bring about happiness to our guests!
We wish to thank our fans for the Pepper Twins brand and our story. Our goal is to bring to you the very finest ingredient available and to share Dr. Yang’s family recipe from her hometown in Sichuan to entertain your palates. We consult with a professional restaurant consulting firm in our endeavors, although we always love to hear from our guests and food lovers. Your kind suggestion will definitely help us grow and improve. As always, we value your opinion and input. You can always communicate and find us via email, at: txpeppertwins@gmail.com
Have a happy and blessed day! Xiexie nin! 谢谢您！
Sincerely
Pepper Twins
双椒菜品告知
创始人杨钰楠女士，肿瘤早期诊断科研背景改行健康中餐。从改行至今，一直努力学习如何经营餐饮，如何将自己的理念融入到美食中。
双椒特色之一：选用的特级花椒均从老家选购，通过中国食品安全局认证，美国FDA验证后联邦快递Fedex overnight空运到休斯顿。
双椒特色之二：由于美国饲养鸡类的方式导致了市场上常规的鸡肉充满了激素和抗生素，对妇女儿童的健康非常坏，因此双椒选用了春泉鸡这个品牌，不含激素和抗生素。
双椒特色之三：从肯塔基农场选用了黑猪肉（Berkshire Pork）， 但是只选用到了前肩胛肉，别的部位因发生过不稳定供应，就没有再选择，比如肥肠等其他部位。这个品牌的猪肉肉质鲜嫩细腻，与老家自养猪肉媲美。
双椒特色之四：双椒牛排粒，牛肉片之类的炒菜选用了安哥拉牛肉，它的肉质也是鲜嫩细腻。但是我们还有牛腱，牛腱，牛肚等部位的牛肉类菜系，他们均为常规货源。
双椒特色之四：用于西红柿炒鸡蛋和蛋炒饭的鸡蛋均为有机鸡蛋，每星期从Costco购买。我们也使用普通鸡蛋蛋白用于某些肉类加工前密封保鲜，这样优质的肉类就不会因为直接接触空气发生变质而影响口感。
双椒特色之五：双椒采用的大米饭是黄国宝，这也是杨女士来美国以后最喜欢的种类，不提供任何其他杂粮比如糙米饭等。杨女士认为口感太差影响心情，心情不好，啥都无味，何谈健康。
双椒特色之六：双椒从未单独采购味精添加到食品里，不可避免的某些调料里面含有味精也是食品安全认可的浓度，FDA也辟谣过味精妖魔化论点。我们只能尽可能的少用限用和不用。从不鼓励使用。
最后杨女士分享她的健康理念： 美食带来好心情，好心情带来健康的身心！
The Founder
Yunan Yang embarked on her Journey in 2015 to infuse Houston Texas with all things sichuan. She fit right in the Houston hustle and bustle culture with her charismatic managing style, and her love for quality food, and her motherly care for her customers. All these ingredients gave birth to what we know as Pepper Twins
It didn’t take much time for her to develop a relationship with the locals which further strengthened the Pepper Twin brand. Yunan has now opened more than six locations in the greater Houston area.
Experience our culture through
our natural ingredients and robust flavors.
Food is our passion and our culture because it brings friends and families together and allows them to experience our culture through our food. We specialize in Country-style Premium Chinese and gluten friendly cuisine.
We serve only the best: Fresh seasonal nine-leaf peppercorn(imported from China, FDA approved), Angus certified beef, Berkshire pork(the best brand), and Farm Raised Chicken (thighs only, no hormone or antibiotics), Duck, Organic egg, fresh local tilapia(whole fish). Although we are not experts on flavoring our food, we rely on using the combination of natural flavors that makes us unique based on traditions of Chinese culture.
