News
April 19th, 2020
Chinese University Alumni Group Donates Masks to Health Care Workers and First Responders
When the cases began decreasing in Wuhan, China, and the curve started climbing in Houston — that’s when Deqing Yang and his fellow Tsinghua University alumni knew the tide had turned.
In January and February, members of the Houston chapter of the Tsinghua University Alumni Association had begun fundraising to send masks to Wuhan, worried about the country they had left behind. Then everything changed in March.
Yang, who presides over the Houston chapter, shifted his attention from helping strained hospitals and communities in China to fundraising to buy protective gear for health care workers in the Houston area, who have fretted over a lack of protective equipment and the risks of caring for those sickened by the new coronavirus.
Yunan Yang, founder of Pepper Twins on Sunday, April 19, 2020, in Houston. Yang has been storing protective masks at her restaurant for first responders and medical professionals
July 18th, 2019
Top 100 Houston Restaurant 2019: Pepper Twins
The thing that distinguishes Sichuan native Yunan Yang’s restaurant from its peers is the concerted effort to use organic and healthful ingredients, an offshoot of Yang’s previous career as a cancer researcher. Organic eggs go into her family-recipe sautéed eggs with tomatoes, a homey resting point in a menu tingling with hot red chile pods and organic nine-leaf Sichuan peppercorns imported from Yang’s hometown. Farmed Berkshire pork, Spring Mountain hormone- and antibiotic-free chicken and Angus beef find their way into other dishes. Yes, they serve tilapia, but once you taste the electric Hot Diving Fish, you may decide you were wrong to snub it. There’s plenty of Sichuan ma and la action going on in Pepper Twins Chicken, Spicy Ivy Pork Ribs and the ineffable Broken Heart Jelly Noodles, all of which bear the two-out-of-a-possible-three heat designation. Need to eat gluten-free? They’ve got you covered.
WHAT TO ORDER: Hot Diving Fish; dry-fried green beans; garlic cucumber; Mr. & Mrs. Smith beef tendon; hot wood-ear salad.
July 18th, 2019
Scientist Turned Chef Ditches Lab to Experiment with Food
HOUSTON – Yunan Yang never intended to open a restaurant when she first arrived in the United States from China 10 years ago. Her plan was to study cancer. As a post-doctorate cancer researcher, she spent six years in Madison, Wisconsin, and worked to publish her findings in scientific journals.
She used radiation and chemicals in her research, which took a toll on her body. She said her job affected her platelet count, which made her bleed easily.
VOANEWS
June 21st, 2019
Texas Monthly: The Best Texas Restaurants in Every City
Sichuan eatery Pepper Twins heats things up by using two different peppers in its flavorful food: Chinese chiles and Sichuan peppercorns. For those don’t mind a fiery bite, Texas Monthly recommends the Mountain City Noodle with homemade chicken broth. For something less spicy, the magazine suggests the sauteed Golden Egg and Sweet Corn with a preserved duck egg.
Pepper Twins – 915 W Gary st
May 1st, 2019
A Four Star Review
The restaurant suffers nothing in the food, and it does so in what feels like a relatively modest atmosphere. Make no mistake, the food is the first and foremost part of the place, the ambiance comes second, but I would still say it is a good place to bring a family, or a date, or maybe just someone who has a love of this special kind of Chinese cuisine. Chinese cuisine is often oversimplified, and some of those more subtle ingredients like those in Sichuan food get overlooked. This is going to be an awesome representation of that unique kind of food. Give it a try.
Another Food Critic
The restaurant suffers nothing in the food, and it does so in what feels like a relatively modest atmosphere. Make no mistake, the food is the first and foremost part of the place, the ambiance comes second, but I would still say it is a good place to bring a family, or a date, or maybe just someone who has a love of this special kind of Chinese cuisine. Chinese cuisine is often oversimplified, and some of those more subtle ingredients like those in Sichuan food get overlooked. This is going to be an awesome representation of that unique kind of food. Give it a try.
Another Food Critic
May 1st, 2019
Pepper Twins may be the best Chinese restaurant in Houston
Houston Life | KPRC 2
Houston Life | KPRC 2
Apr 22, 2019
Fire and Spice
An immigrant’s Pepper Twins restaurant empire, informed by her medical-research background and Sichuan culture, is growing fast!
Houston City Book (2019 May issue, page 80 – 82)
Jan 29, 2019
Best of Houston®2019: Best Chinese
Best Chinese Restaurant: Pepper Twins (River Oaks)
Houston has one of the most vibrant Chinatowns in the country, so when a Chinese restaurant manages to be so good that it can lure people away from Chinatown and back into the city, it must be something kind of special. That’s what Yunan Yang created with her mini-chain of Pepper Twins restaurants, the River Oaks location being a particular standout. Specializing in what Yang likes to call “country-style organic Chinese,” the food at Pepper Twins is vibrant, unapologetically spicy, clean and delicious. Favorites like the garlic cucumber, fish swimming in pickles, and the Pepper Twins chicken are highly recommended. Better yet, order the spicy beef tendon dish known as “Mr. & Mrs. Smith,” GQ Magazine’s pick for Appetizer of the Year in 2017, to experience a “numbing, burning, textural masterpiece.”
HoustonPress
Aug 17th, 2018
Katy Is the New Asia Town
…Pepper Twins
Did you know that the local chain’s “Mr. and Mrs. Smith”—the cold sliced-beef-tendon dish also called fuqi feipian—was named best appetizer of 2017 by GQ? Like its four sister restaurants, the newest location of Yunan Yan’s mini-empire showcases the complexity of lip-tingling, mouth-numbing Sichuan peppercorns. It’s BYOB—bring a chilled white to beat the heat.
April 11, 2018
One of Houston’s favorite Chinese restaurants is opening a new location
Good news for fans of Pepper Twins, the authentic Sichuan-style restaurant that currently has five locations in Houston: another is on the way. A sixth outpost will open at City Center by the end of the 2018, and foodies all across America are rejoicing.
Houston Culture Map
Good news for fans of Pepper Twins, the authentic Sichuan-style restaurant that currently has five locations in Houston: another is on the way. A sixth outpost will open at City Center by the end of the 2018, and foodies all across America are rejoicing.
Houston Culture Map
April 11, 2018
One of Houston’s favorite Chinese restaurants is opening a new location
Good news for fans of Pepper Twins, the authentic Sichuan-style restaurant that currently has five locations in Houston: another is on the way. A sixth outpost will open at City Center by the end of the 2018, and foodies all across America are rejoicing.
Houston Culture Map
Good news for fans of Pepper Twins, the authentic Sichuan-style restaurant that currently has five locations in Houston: another is on the way. A sixth outpost will open at City Center by the end of the 2018, and foodies all across America are rejoicing.
Houston Culture Map
Feb 1, 2018
SUCCESS STORY: Yunan Yang, the Woman Behind Pepper Twins Chinese Restaurant
After a career in cancer medical research, Yunan Yang opened Pepper Twins which serves organic and fresh, Sichuan Chinese food that retains the fantastic flavors from her homeland.
Katy Magazine
Aug 10, 2018
Surprise Texas Spots Dominate National Mag’s 10 Best New Restaurants in America Rankings
Take Pepper Twins, the low-key Houston restaurants that specialize in country style organic Chinese food. Pepper Twins isn’t trying to impress anyone with fancy press releases. It’s all about good food and service (your water glass will never go empty). And there it is being lauded for having one of the dishes of the year by GQ Magazine.
PaperCity
Apr 21, 2017
The Best New Steak of 2017, Plus 6 More Superlative Food Moments
That began to change as I gingerly—and then increasingly less gingerly—began to eat an appetizer called Mr. & Mrs. Smith, a more palatably named take on the classic Sichuan fuqi feipian, “lung of the husband and wife”: cold slices of beef tendon and tongue, tossed with sesame paste, Sichuan peppercorns, scallions, and chiles. I had not realized how much I was sleepwalking until flavor hit me in the face. The dish is a numbing, burning, textural masterpiece, and the kind of thing a budding empire is built on. Indeed, Chongqing native Yunan Yang (who is also involved, with her sister, in the restaurant Cooking Girl) already has two Pepper Twins locations and two more in her sights.
GQ
Apr 20, 2017
Time Out Says: FIVE STARS!
This perpetually packed spot presents traditional Szechuan-style Chinese fare in a stylish atmosphere. The menu lists only one type of dumplings—pork—but they’re a dream, thin pockets of dough pinched around juicy, well-seasoned organic ground meat. Wash them down with a cold beer of your choosing—the restaurant is BYOB.
Time Out America
Apr 4, 2017
The 15th Annual Menu of Menus Extravanganza
With more than 40 area restaurants participating this year, guests will sample from tastings of local hotspots including Boheme, Beaver’s, Field & Tides, Krisp Bird & Batter, Peli Peli Kitchen and Pepper Twins alongside wine, beer and cocktail sampling.
Houston Press
Feb 14, 2017
Five reasons to add Pepper Twins to the top of your Montrose dining list
Serving up authentic, piquant, peppery Chinese cuisine, Montrose’s recently opened Pepper Twins offers a menu filled with Sichuan dishes serious enough for Chinatown. First things you’ll notice when sampling a dish at this spunky little BYOB joint? The meats melt in your mouth, the fare is full of zesty spices that add an extra dimension of delicious to each bite, and the ingredients are high-quality and naturally flavorful.
Houston Chronicle
Feb 13, 2017
Second Time’s Also the Charm at Arthur Ave and Pepper Twins
The reason to visit Pepper Twins is to have a Chongqing-native waiter guide you through a menu of his childhood comforts, although comfort may be relative. The restaurant’s name comes from a combination of Szechuan peppercorns (they call it nine-leaf pepper on the menu) and explosively hot, tiny chiles that flavor eponymous dishes featuring chicken, frog’s legs and “fish slides.” Ultra-tender Pepper Twins Beef practically vaporizes upon first bite, as if the fusion of numbing spice and heat were searing right through it.
Houstonia
Feb 10, 2017
New name, same food for reopened Montrose Chinese restaurant
One of the best Chinese restaurants in Montrose has a new name, but the food hasn’t changed. Cooking Girl, the Sichuan-style restaurant next to Boheme that emerged as one of 2015’s most pleasant surprise restaurant openings, is now known as Pepper Twins, the restaurant announced yesterday on Facebook. The restaurant has also reopened after being closed since mid-January to repair a sewer issue.
Culture Map
Jan 31, 2017
Indulge in Spicy Szechuan Food With Pepper Twins
I always make it a point to try at least one item that is recommended by the server, prefacing the request with a genuine trust bestowed upon him/her to guide me as a fellow diner and not as an opportunity to sell the most expensive item on the menu. This practice seems to work better at places like Pepper Twins than at more high-end restaurants. Upon the suggestion of the server, we ordered the Pepper Twins chicken, the first item on the specialty list.
Houston Press
Jan 25, 2017
The 17 best Chinese restaurants in America
For Houston’s hotheads, spicy Sichuan cuisine all comes down to two restaurants: Mala Sichuan Bistro and this sizzling upstart. Yunan Yang and her sister Lily Luo derive their equally thoughtful and heartfelt brand of cooking from their mother—who “came from a very big family” in Chongqing, where she learned “a lot of secret recipes from the family cook”—as well as from Yang’s own background in cancer research, which reveals itself in her emphasis on wholesome ingredients, from organic meats and veggies to digestive aids like the dried plum powder she sprinkles on fried sweet potatoes and, of course, imported numbing peppercorns. The effects run from pure exhilaration, as with the fried beef cubes and hot-sauce boiled fish brimming with chilies, to soothing relief in the form of meltingly tender, sweet-salty “soft bacon” or scrambled, fried tomatoes and eggs, accompanied by a fresh green-bean smoothie.
New York Post
Jan, 2017
Chinese Revolution
The artfully assessed trend is very much at play in Houston, it seems, as two wickedly talented chef-entrepreneurs have opened hip, authentic restaurants foodies are going gaga over. The still-new Montrose smash Cooking Girl (315 Fairview St., 832.649.7175) and the even newer Heights-area Ginger and Fork (4705 Inker St., 713.861.8883) are both fun and accessible, but each has its own very unique identity and take on the cuisine. Of course, all this follows the triumphant expansion of Mala Sichuan Bistro from Bellaire’s Asian district to Montrose, which the Journal actually called out as part of the new wave of Chinese restaurants in America.
Houston City Book
Nov 25, 2016
Feel the Burn
Wait for it. Is it kicking in? Hold on—yes, no, yes! Here it is! First comes the bright, pungent flavor. Then the fizzy-numb sensation. Then something even more remarkable happens: Flavors start to gently glow. Salt seems subtly saltier, sweet becomes sweeter, chiles more vibrant. It’s like the way things look sharper when you put on yellow snow goggles. My friends Paige and Bob and I are having lunch at two-month-old Pepper Twins, in Houston, and, no, we haven’t been smoking anything. We’re under the sway of Zanthoxylum simulans, and even though we’ve partaken of the wily Sichuan peppercorn before, each time is an adventure all over again.
Texas Monthly
Nov 2, 2016
Healthy, Balanced Dishes Bursting with Flavor at The Cooking Girls
Yunan Yang, Owner of The Cooking Girls restaurant in Houston, TX is a former medical researcher and an inspired cook. She credits her mother-in-law not only with teaching her how to cook but also about the importance of food.
Texas Homes for Sale
July 18th, 2019
Top 100 Houston Restaurant 2019: Pepper Twins
The thing that distinguishes Sichuan native Yunan Yang’s restaurant from its peers is the concerted effort to use organic and healthful ingredients, an offshoot of Yang’s previous career as a cancer researcher. Organic eggs go into her family-recipe sautéed eggs with tomatoes, a homey resting point in a menu tingling with hot red chile pods and organic nine-leaf Sichuan peppercorns imported from Yang’s hometown. Farmed Berkshire pork, Spring Mountain hormone- and antibiotic-free chicken and Angus beef find their way into other dishes. Yes, they serve tilapia, but once you taste the electric Hot Diving Fish, you may decide you were wrong to snub it. There’s plenty of Sichuan ma and la action going on in Pepper Twins Chicken, Spicy Ivy Pork Ribs and the ineffable Broken Heart Jelly Noodles, all of which bear the two-out-of-a-possible-three heat designation. Need to eat gluten-free? They’ve got you covered.
WHAT TO ORDER: Hot Diving Fish; dry-fried green beans; garlic cucumber; Mr. & Mrs. Smith beef tendon; hot wood-ear salad.
July 18th, 2019
Scientist Turned Chef Ditches Lab to Experiment with Food
HOUSTON – Yunan Yang never intended to open a restaurant when she first arrived in the United States from China 10 years ago. Her plan was to study cancer. As a post-doctorate cancer researcher, she spent six years in Madison, Wisconsin, and worked to publish her findings in scientific journals.
She used radiation and chemicals in her research, which took a toll on her body. She said her job affected her platelet count, which made her bleed easily.
VOANEWS
June 21st, 2019
Texas Monthly: The Best Texas Restaurants in Every City
Sichuan eatery Pepper Twins heats things up by using two different peppers in its flavorful food: Chinese chiles and Sichuan peppercorns. For those don’t mind a fiery bite, Texas Monthly recommends the Mountain City Noodle with homemade chicken broth. For something less spicy, the magazine suggests the sauteed Golden Egg and Sweet Corn with a preserved duck egg.
Pepper Twins – 915 W Gary st
May 1st, 2019
A Four Star Review
The restaurant suffers nothing in the food, and it does so in what feels like a relatively modest atmosphere. Make no mistake, the food is the first and foremost part of the place, the ambiance comes second, but I would still say it is a good place to bring a family, or a date, or maybe just someone who has a love of this special kind of Chinese cuisine. Chinese cuisine is often oversimplified, and some of those more subtle ingredients like those in Sichuan food get overlooked. This is going to be an awesome representation of that unique kind of food. Give it a try.
Another Food Critic
The restaurant suffers nothing in the food, and it does so in what feels like a relatively modest atmosphere. Make no mistake, the food is the first and foremost part of the place, the ambiance comes second, but I would still say it is a good place to bring a family, or a date, or maybe just someone who has a love of this special kind of Chinese cuisine. Chinese cuisine is often oversimplified, and some of those more subtle ingredients like those in Sichuan food get overlooked. This is going to be an awesome representation of that unique kind of food. Give it a try.
Another Food Critic
May 1st, 2019
Pepper Twins may be the best Chinese restaurant in Houston
Houston Life | KPRC 2
Houston Life | KPRC 2
Apr 22, 2019
Fire and Spice
An immigrant’s Pepper Twins restaurant empire, informed by her medical-research background and Sichuan culture, is growing fast!
Houston City Book (2019 May issue, page 80 – 82)
Jan 29, 2019
Best of Houston®2019: Best Chinese
Best Chinese Restaurant: Pepper Twins (River Oaks)
Houston has one of the most vibrant Chinatowns in the country, so when a Chinese restaurant manages to be so good that it can lure people away from Chinatown and back into the city, it must be something kind of special. That’s what Yunan Yang created with her mini-chain of Pepper Twins restaurants, the River Oaks location being a particular standout. Specializing in what Yang likes to call “country-style organic Chinese,” the food at Pepper Twins is vibrant, unapologetically spicy, clean and delicious. Favorites like the garlic cucumber, fish swimming in pickles, and the Pepper Twins chicken are highly recommended. Better yet, order the spicy beef tendon dish known as “Mr. & Mrs. Smith,” GQ Magazine’s pick for Appetizer of the Year in 2017, to experience a “numbing, burning, textural masterpiece.”
HoustonPress
Aug 17th, 2018
Katy Is the New Asia Town
…Pepper Twins
Did you know that the local chain’s “Mr. and Mrs. Smith”—the cold sliced-beef-tendon dish also called fuqi feipian—was named best appetizer of 2017 by GQ? Like its four sister restaurants, the newest location of Yunan Yan’s mini-empire showcases the complexity of lip-tingling, mouth-numbing Sichuan peppercorns. It’s BYOB—bring a chilled white to beat the heat.
April 11, 2018
One of Houston’s favorite Chinese restaurants is opening a new location
Good news for fans of Pepper Twins, the authentic Sichuan-style restaurant that currently has five locations in Houston: another is on the way. A sixth outpost will open at City Center by the end of the 2018, and foodies all across America are rejoicing.
Houston Culture Map
Good news for fans of Pepper Twins, the authentic Sichuan-style restaurant that currently has five locations in Houston: another is on the way. A sixth outpost will open at City Center by the end of the 2018, and foodies all across America are rejoicing.
Houston Culture Map
April 11, 2018
One of Houston’s favorite Chinese restaurants is opening a new location
Good news for fans of Pepper Twins, the authentic Sichuan-style restaurant that currently has five locations in Houston: another is on the way. A sixth outpost will open at City Center by the end of the 2018, and foodies all across America are rejoicing.
Houston Culture Map
Good news for fans of Pepper Twins, the authentic Sichuan-style restaurant that currently has five locations in Houston: another is on the way. A sixth outpost will open at City Center by the end of the 2018, and foodies all across America are rejoicing.
Houston Culture Map
Feb 1, 2018
SUCCESS STORY: Yunan Yang, the Woman Behind Pepper Twins Chinese Restaurant
After a career in cancer medical research, Yunan Yang opened Pepper Twins which serves organic and fresh, Sichuan Chinese food that retains the fantastic flavors from her homeland.
Katy Magazine
Aug 10, 2018
Surprise Texas Spots Dominate National Mag’s 10 Best New Restaurants in America Rankings
Take Pepper Twins, the low-key Houston restaurants that specialize in country style organic Chinese food. Pepper Twins isn’t trying to impress anyone with fancy press releases. It’s all about good food and service (your water glass will never go empty). And there it is being lauded for having one of the dishes of the year by GQ Magazine.
PaperCity
Apr 21, 2017
The Best New Steak of 2017, Plus 6 More Superlative Food Moments
That began to change as I gingerly—and then increasingly less gingerly—began to eat an appetizer called Mr. & Mrs. Smith, a more palatably named take on the classic Sichuan fuqi feipian, “lung of the husband and wife”: cold slices of beef tendon and tongue, tossed with sesame paste, Sichuan peppercorns, scallions, and chiles. I had not realized how much I was sleepwalking until flavor hit me in the face. The dish is a numbing, burning, textural masterpiece, and the kind of thing a budding empire is built on. Indeed, Chongqing native Yunan Yang (who is also involved, with her sister, in the restaurant Cooking Girl) already has two Pepper Twins locations and two more in her sights.
GQ
Apr 20, 2017
Time Out Says: FIVE STARS!
This perpetually packed spot presents traditional Szechuan-style Chinese fare in a stylish atmosphere. The menu lists only one type of dumplings—pork—but they’re a dream, thin pockets of dough pinched around juicy, well-seasoned organic ground meat. Wash them down with a cold beer of your choosing—the restaurant is BYOB.
Time Out America
Apr 4, 2017
The 15th Annual Menu of Menus Extravanganza
With more than 40 area restaurants participating this year, guests will sample from tastings of local hotspots including Boheme, Beaver’s, Field & Tides, Krisp Bird & Batter, Peli Peli Kitchen and Pepper Twins alongside wine, beer and cocktail sampling.
Houston Press
Feb 14, 2017
Five reasons to add Pepper Twins to the top of your Montrose dining list
Serving up authentic, piquant, peppery Chinese cuisine, Montrose’s recently opened Pepper Twins offers a menu filled with Sichuan dishes serious enough for Chinatown. First things you’ll notice when sampling a dish at this spunky little BYOB joint? The meats melt in your mouth, the fare is full of zesty spices that add an extra dimension of delicious to each bite, and the ingredients are high-quality and naturally flavorful.
Houston Chronicle
Feb 13, 2017
Second Time’s Also the Charm at Arthur Ave and Pepper Twins
The reason to visit Pepper Twins is to have a Chongqing-native waiter guide you through a menu of his childhood comforts, although comfort may be relative. The restaurant’s name comes from a combination of Szechuan peppercorns (they call it nine-leaf pepper on the menu) and explosively hot, tiny chiles that flavor eponymous dishes featuring chicken, frog’s legs and “fish slides.” Ultra-tender Pepper Twins Beef practically vaporizes upon first bite, as if the fusion of numbing spice and heat were searing right through it.
Houstonia
Feb 10, 2017
New name, same food for reopened Montrose Chinese restaurant
One of the best Chinese restaurants in Montrose has a new name, but the food hasn’t changed. Cooking Girl, the Sichuan-style restaurant next to Boheme that emerged as one of 2015’s most pleasant surprise restaurant openings, is now known as Pepper Twins, the restaurant announced yesterday on Facebook. The restaurant has also reopened after being closed since mid-January to repair a sewer issue.
Culture Map
Jan 31, 2017
Indulge in Spicy Szechuan Food With Pepper Twins
I always make it a point to try at least one item that is recommended by the server, prefacing the request with a genuine trust bestowed upon him/her to guide me as a fellow diner and not as an opportunity to sell the most expensive item on the menu. This practice seems to work better at places like Pepper Twins than at more high-end restaurants. Upon the suggestion of the server, we ordered the Pepper Twins chicken, the first item on the specialty list.
Houston Press
Jan 25, 2017
The 17 best Chinese restaurants in America
For Houston’s hotheads, spicy Sichuan cuisine all comes down to two restaurants: Mala Sichuan Bistro and this sizzling upstart. Yunan Yang and her sister Lily Luo derive their equally thoughtful and heartfelt brand of cooking from their mother—who “came from a very big family” in Chongqing, where she learned “a lot of secret recipes from the family cook”—as well as from Yang’s own background in cancer research, which reveals itself in her emphasis on wholesome ingredients, from organic meats and veggies to digestive aids like the dried plum powder she sprinkles on fried sweet potatoes and, of course, imported numbing peppercorns. The effects run from pure exhilaration, as with the fried beef cubes and hot-sauce boiled fish brimming with chilies, to soothing relief in the form of meltingly tender, sweet-salty “soft bacon” or scrambled, fried tomatoes and eggs, accompanied by a fresh green-bean smoothie.
New York Post
Jan, 2017
Chinese Revolution
The artfully assessed trend is very much at play in Houston, it seems, as two wickedly talented chef-entrepreneurs have opened hip, authentic restaurants foodies are going gaga over. The still-new Montrose smash Cooking Girl (315 Fairview St., 832.649.7175) and the even newer Heights-area Ginger and Fork (4705 Inker St., 713.861.8883) are both fun and accessible, but each has its own very unique identity and take on the cuisine. Of course, all this follows the triumphant expansion of Mala Sichuan Bistro from Bellaire’s Asian district to Montrose, which the Journal actually called out as part of the new wave of Chinese restaurants in America.
Houston City Book
Nov 25, 2016
Feel the Burn
Wait for it. Is it kicking in? Hold on—yes, no, yes! Here it is! First comes the bright, pungent flavor. Then the fizzy-numb sensation. Then something even more remarkable happens: Flavors start to gently glow. Salt seems subtly saltier, sweet becomes sweeter, chiles more vibrant. It’s like the way things look sharper when you put on yellow snow goggles. My friends Paige and Bob and I are having lunch at two-month-old Pepper Twins, in Houston, and, no, we haven’t been smoking anything. We’re under the sway of Zanthoxylum simulans, and even though we’ve partaken of the wily Sichuan peppercorn before, each time is an adventure all over again.
Texas Monthly
Nov 2, 2016
Healthy, Balanced Dishes Bursting with Flavor at The Cooking Girls
Yunan Yang, Owner of The Cooking Girls restaurant in Houston, TX is a former medical researcher and an inspired cook. She credits her mother-in-law not only with teaching her how to cook but also about the importance of food.
Texas Homes for Sale
July 18th, 2019
Scientist Turned Chef Ditches Lab to Experiment with Food
HOUSTON – Yunan Yang never intended to open a restaurant when she first arrived in the United States from China 10 years ago. Her plan was to study cancer. As a post-doctorate cancer researcher, she spent six years in Madison, Wisconsin, and worked to publish her findings in scientific journals.
She used radiation and chemicals in her research, which took a toll on her body. She said her job affected her platelet count, which made her bleed easily.
VOANEWS
June 21st, 2019
Texas Monthly: The Best Texas Restaurants in Every City
Sichuan eatery Pepper Twins heats things up by using two different peppers in its flavorful food: Chinese chiles and Sichuan peppercorns. For those don’t mind a fiery bite, Texas Monthly recommends the Mountain City Noodle with homemade chicken broth. For something less spicy, the magazine suggests the sauteed Golden Egg and Sweet Corn with a preserved duck egg.
Pepper Twins – 915 W Gary st
May 1st, 2019
A Four Star Review
The restaurant suffers nothing in the food, and it does so in what feels like a relatively modest atmosphere. Make no mistake, the food is the first and foremost part of the place, the ambiance comes second, but I would still say it is a good place to bring a family, or a date, or maybe just someone who has a love of this special kind of Chinese cuisine. Chinese cuisine is often oversimplified, and some of those more subtle ingredients like those in Sichuan food get overlooked. This is going to be an awesome representation of that unique kind of food. Give it a try.
Another Food Critic
The restaurant suffers nothing in the food, and it does so in what feels like a relatively modest atmosphere. Make no mistake, the food is the first and foremost part of the place, the ambiance comes second, but I would still say it is a good place to bring a family, or a date, or maybe just someone who has a love of this special kind of Chinese cuisine. Chinese cuisine is often oversimplified, and some of those more subtle ingredients like those in Sichuan food get overlooked. This is going to be an awesome representation of that unique kind of food. Give it a try.
Another Food Critic
May 1st, 2019
Pepper Twins may be the best Chinese restaurant in Houston
Houston Life | KPRC 2
Houston Life | KPRC 2
Apr 22, 2019
Fire and Spice
An immigrant’s Pepper Twins restaurant empire, informed by her medical-research background and Sichuan culture, is growing fast!
Houston City Book (2019 May issue, page 80 – 82)
Jan 29, 2019
Best of Houston®2019: Best Chinese
Best Chinese Restaurant: Pepper Twins (River Oaks)
Houston has one of the most vibrant Chinatowns in the country, so when a Chinese restaurant manages to be so good that it can lure people away from Chinatown and back into the city, it must be something kind of special. That’s what Yunan Yang created with her mini-chain of Pepper Twins restaurants, the River Oaks location being a particular standout. Specializing in what Yang likes to call “country-style organic Chinese,” the food at Pepper Twins is vibrant, unapologetically spicy, clean and delicious. Favorites like the garlic cucumber, fish swimming in pickles, and the Pepper Twins chicken are highly recommended. Better yet, order the spicy beef tendon dish known as “Mr. & Mrs. Smith,” GQ Magazine’s pick for Appetizer of the Year in 2017, to experience a “numbing, burning, textural masterpiece.”
HoustonPress
Aug 17th, 2018
Katy Is the New Asia Town
…Pepper Twins
Did you know that the local chain’s “Mr. and Mrs. Smith”—the cold sliced-beef-tendon dish also called fuqi feipian—was named best appetizer of 2017 by GQ? Like its four sister restaurants, the newest location of Yunan Yan’s mini-empire showcases the complexity of lip-tingling, mouth-numbing Sichuan peppercorns. It’s BYOB—bring a chilled white to beat the heat.
April 11, 2018
One of Houston’s favorite Chinese restaurants is opening a new location
Good news for fans of Pepper Twins, the authentic Sichuan-style restaurant that currently has five locations in Houston: another is on the way. A sixth outpost will open at City Center by the end of the 2018, and foodies all across America are rejoicing.
Houston Culture Map
Good news for fans of Pepper Twins, the authentic Sichuan-style restaurant that currently has five locations in Houston: another is on the way. A sixth outpost will open at City Center by the end of the 2018, and foodies all across America are rejoicing.
Houston Culture Map
April 11, 2018
One of Houston’s favorite Chinese restaurants is opening a new location
Good news for fans of Pepper Twins, the authentic Sichuan-style restaurant that currently has five locations in Houston: another is on the way. A sixth outpost will open at City Center by the end of the 2018, and foodies all across America are rejoicing.
Houston Culture Map
Good news for fans of Pepper Twins, the authentic Sichuan-style restaurant that currently has five locations in Houston: another is on the way. A sixth outpost will open at City Center by the end of the 2018, and foodies all across America are rejoicing.
Houston Culture Map
Feb 1, 2018
SUCCESS STORY: Yunan Yang, the Woman Behind Pepper Twins Chinese Restaurant
After a career in cancer medical research, Yunan Yang opened Pepper Twins which serves organic and fresh, Sichuan Chinese food that retains the fantastic flavors from her homeland.
Katy Magazine
Aug 10, 2018
Surprise Texas Spots Dominate National Mag’s 10 Best New Restaurants in America Rankings
Take Pepper Twins, the low-key Houston restaurants that specialize in country style organic Chinese food. Pepper Twins isn’t trying to impress anyone with fancy press releases. It’s all about good food and service (your water glass will never go empty). And there it is being lauded for having one of the dishes of the year by GQ Magazine.
PaperCity
Apr 21, 2017
The Best New Steak of 2017, Plus 6 More Superlative Food Moments
That began to change as I gingerly—and then increasingly less gingerly—began to eat an appetizer called Mr. & Mrs. Smith, a more palatably named take on the classic Sichuan fuqi feipian, “lung of the husband and wife”: cold slices of beef tendon and tongue, tossed with sesame paste, Sichuan peppercorns, scallions, and chiles. I had not realized how much I was sleepwalking until flavor hit me in the face. The dish is a numbing, burning, textural masterpiece, and the kind of thing a budding empire is built on. Indeed, Chongqing native Yunan Yang (who is also involved, with her sister, in the restaurant Cooking Girl) already has two Pepper Twins locations and two more in her sights.
GQ
Apr 20, 2017
Time Out Says: FIVE STARS!
This perpetually packed spot presents traditional Szechuan-style Chinese fare in a stylish atmosphere. The menu lists only one type of dumplings—pork—but they’re a dream, thin pockets of dough pinched around juicy, well-seasoned organic ground meat. Wash them down with a cold beer of your choosing—the restaurant is BYOB.
Time Out America
Apr 4, 2017
The 15th Annual Menu of Menus Extravanganza
With more than 40 area restaurants participating this year, guests will sample from tastings of local hotspots including Boheme, Beaver’s, Field & Tides, Krisp Bird & Batter, Peli Peli Kitchen and Pepper Twins alongside wine, beer and cocktail sampling.
Houston Press
Feb 14, 2017
Five reasons to add Pepper Twins to the top of your Montrose dining list
Serving up authentic, piquant, peppery Chinese cuisine, Montrose’s recently opened Pepper Twins offers a menu filled with Sichuan dishes serious enough for Chinatown. First things you’ll notice when sampling a dish at this spunky little BYOB joint? The meats melt in your mouth, the fare is full of zesty spices that add an extra dimension of delicious to each bite, and the ingredients are high-quality and naturally flavorful.
Houston Chronicle
Feb 13, 2017
Second Time’s Also the Charm at Arthur Ave and Pepper Twins
The reason to visit Pepper Twins is to have a Chongqing-native waiter guide you through a menu of his childhood comforts, although comfort may be relative. The restaurant’s name comes from a combination of Szechuan peppercorns (they call it nine-leaf pepper on the menu) and explosively hot, tiny chiles that flavor eponymous dishes featuring chicken, frog’s legs and “fish slides.” Ultra-tender Pepper Twins Beef practically vaporizes upon first bite, as if the fusion of numbing spice and heat were searing right through it.
Houstonia
Feb 10, 2017
New name, same food for reopened Montrose Chinese restaurant
One of the best Chinese restaurants in Montrose has a new name, but the food hasn’t changed. Cooking Girl, the Sichuan-style restaurant next to Boheme that emerged as one of 2015’s most pleasant surprise restaurant openings, is now known as Pepper Twins, the restaurant announced yesterday on Facebook. The restaurant has also reopened after being closed since mid-January to repair a sewer issue.
Culture Map
Jan 31, 2017
Indulge in Spicy Szechuan Food With Pepper Twins
I always make it a point to try at least one item that is recommended by the server, prefacing the request with a genuine trust bestowed upon him/her to guide me as a fellow diner and not as an opportunity to sell the most expensive item on the menu. This practice seems to work better at places like Pepper Twins than at more high-end restaurants. Upon the suggestion of the server, we ordered the Pepper Twins chicken, the first item on the specialty list.
Houston Press
Jan 25, 2017
The 17 best Chinese restaurants in America
For Houston’s hotheads, spicy Sichuan cuisine all comes down to two restaurants: Mala Sichuan Bistro and this sizzling upstart. Yunan Yang and her sister Lily Luo derive their equally thoughtful and heartfelt brand of cooking from their mother—who “came from a very big family” in Chongqing, where she learned “a lot of secret recipes from the family cook”—as well as from Yang’s own background in cancer research, which reveals itself in her emphasis on wholesome ingredients, from organic meats and veggies to digestive aids like the dried plum powder she sprinkles on fried sweet potatoes and, of course, imported numbing peppercorns. The effects run from pure exhilaration, as with the fried beef cubes and hot-sauce boiled fish brimming with chilies, to soothing relief in the form of meltingly tender, sweet-salty “soft bacon” or scrambled, fried tomatoes and eggs, accompanied by a fresh green-bean smoothie.
New York Post
Jan, 2017
Chinese Revolution
The artfully assessed trend is very much at play in Houston, it seems, as two wickedly talented chef-entrepreneurs have opened hip, authentic restaurants foodies are going gaga over. The still-new Montrose smash Cooking Girl (315 Fairview St., 832.649.7175) and the even newer Heights-area Ginger and Fork (4705 Inker St., 713.861.8883) are both fun and accessible, but each has its own very unique identity and take on the cuisine. Of course, all this follows the triumphant expansion of Mala Sichuan Bistro from Bellaire’s Asian district to Montrose, which the Journal actually called out as part of the new wave of Chinese restaurants in America.
Houston City Book
Nov 25, 2016
Feel the Burn
Wait for it. Is it kicking in? Hold on—yes, no, yes! Here it is! First comes the bright, pungent flavor. Then the fizzy-numb sensation. Then something even more remarkable happens: Flavors start to gently glow. Salt seems subtly saltier, sweet becomes sweeter, chiles more vibrant. It’s like the way things look sharper when you put on yellow snow goggles. My friends Paige and Bob and I are having lunch at two-month-old Pepper Twins, in Houston, and, no, we haven’t been smoking anything. We’re under the sway of Zanthoxylum simulans, and even though we’ve partaken of the wily Sichuan peppercorn before, each time is an adventure all over again.
Texas Monthly
Nov 2, 2016
Healthy, Balanced Dishes Bursting with Flavor at The Cooking Girls
Yunan Yang, Owner of The Cooking Girls restaurant in Houston, TX is a former medical researcher and an inspired cook. She credits her mother-in-law not only with teaching her how to cook but also about the importance of food.
Texas Homes for Sale
Mar 10th, 2022
双椒地道老酸奶走进了休斯顿的超市！一波馋嘴新菜喜迎春天~
休斯顿知名的双椒餐馆Pepper Twins，如果只挑一个特点说，那必然是四个字：推陈出新。很少餐馆像他们一样，根据时节不断更新菜单。这就好像一家为大众服务的家庭厨房，因为老板娘自己嘴馋，总是琢磨着各种菜式的新花样，结果大家都可以跟着大饱口福。 秋冬吃羊肉滋补，春天嘛，就吃细皮嫩肉的土鸡喽。今天推荐的几款新菜，都跟土鸡有关。在介绍之前，先恭喜一下双椒的地道老酸奶通过了FDA的审核，已经进超市售卖啦~
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休斯顿在线
Feb 25th, 2022
双椒老酸奶—上市咯！
各位童鞋朝思暮想，舔瓶跪求的双椒老酸奶终于正式出品了！目前已在中国城大中华(Great Wall supermarket)，糖城百佳(JusGo Supermarket)有售，欢迎选购！
Apr 2nd, 2021
有麻小陪伴的日子，才是有滋有味的日子啊~垂涎欲滴的家乡新菜也来啦！
最近，我们刊登了一篇小龙虾的文章，有不少读者问：在休斯顿能吃到麻小吗？看来，虽然路易斯安那州口味的小龙虾在德州深入人心，但我们的中国胃依然牵挂的是熟悉的国内麻小的味道。 而且从3月下旬以来，美国小龙虾的个头明显大了起来，吃起来特别的肥美、过瘾！每次在朋友圈看到有人贴红彤彤的小龙虾照片，香辣味好像能从屏幕中穿透过来，让人食指大动。 休斯顿当然有麻小口味的小龙虾了。下面这些食客评论的，就是双椒餐馆的小龙虾，普遍评价是量足、味美。有的食客一人就点了20磅！
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休斯顿在线
Dec 15, 2020
休屯圣诞新年季【爆款硬菜】热辣上市，错过可能就不再哦~
好吃的餐馆，好吃的菜总是手慢无。对此，小编深有痛感。感恩节的时候信心满满提前一周向双椒餐馆预订经典的烤鸭套餐，结果被告知已售罄。那次的教训是：在外卖盛行的时代，订餐要趁早啊！否则只能自己哼哧哼哧辛苦做菜（真的不要啦）~
现在距离圣诞节只有不到十天的时间，距离新年也不远了，大餐可以筹备起来啦！幸好善于花样翻新的双椒餐馆（Pepper Twins）适时推出了一批应节的大菜：粉蒸带皮小羊羔、芋儿酥排骨、腊八蒜烧肥肠、歌乐山辣子鸡、香辣小海鲜、虫草花酸菜鲈鱼、极品扣肉、福临门麻辣萝卜干、八宝糯米饭~ 不变的特色是味美量大，老少咸宜。看着菜名就觉着喜庆充实，特别适合节日期间聚餐。
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休斯顿在线
Oct 24, 2020
就冲着这盆巨无霸麻辣羊蝎子，休屯这家餐馆也让人爱了！
俗话说，“寒风起，羊肉香”，天一冷嘛，一到年底，就遏制不住的特别想吃羊肉。从肉质上说，羊肉比猪肉、牛肉细嫩，脂肪与胆固醇含量也比猪肉、牛肉低，性温热。而且小编真是喜欢吃羊肉呀，天天吃也不觉得腻歪。所以听说最近双椒餐馆新增了羊肉系列后，真是心花怒放。 但没想到的是： 1. 种类那么多！有麻辣羊蝎子、带皮红焖羊肉煲、青椒羊肚丝、泡椒羊杂、羊血旺、当归山药羊肚汤、全家宴羊肉汤锅、萝卜炖羊蝎子汤、干烧小羊腿等； 2. 分量那么大！特别是麻辣羊蝎子，一大盆三四个人都啃得很爽，绝对地爱了爱了！顾客评论那也是一片叫好，都感觉商家实在是太实惠了。
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休斯顿在线
Dec 6, 2019
双椒继续扩张，第七第八家分店即开，又一批爆款新菜等你来尝
要说休斯顿的中餐馆，双椒（Pepper Twins）无论在华人圈还是老美圈中都可谓无人不知，算是休斯顿中餐的一个标杆了。采用健康食材、不断研发新菜和扩张快让“双椒”从众多中餐馆中脱颖而出。最近，休斯顿纪事报（Houston Chronicle）的美食评论家Alison Cook评选出了休斯顿2019年度100佳年度餐厅，双椒第四次入选。 在三年半内开了六家分店后，双椒大手笔又签下了两个新址：第七家分店位于休斯顿著名的购物区Galleria Mall内的Food Court，预计2020年情人节前后开张；第八家店位于Post Oak地区，预计2020年春假前后开张。届时，住在周边地区的居民有口福啦！
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魅力休斯顿网
Nov 8, 2019
休斯顿2019年度100佳餐厅出炉，5家中餐馆上榜！
近日，休斯顿纪事报（Houston Chronicle）的美食评论家Alison Cook评选出了休斯顿2019年度100佳年度餐厅，可谓是本市餐饮界的风向标，引人瞩目。Alison Cook曾两次赢得James Beard基金会餐馆评论奖，荣获过M.F.K. Fisher卓越写作奖，14年来，一直为休斯顿纪事报撰写餐馆评论，探访各类用餐场所。为了作出评价，Cook在过去一年里“暗访”了371家餐馆，平均每天至少一家。 有5家中餐馆入榜休斯顿100佳年度餐厅。双椒、小熊川菜、唐茶苑、金山、海港海鲜馆进入了Top 100. 双椒创始人四川人杨玉楠的餐馆与其他同行的区别是他们热衷于使用有机的健康食材。她的家常番茄炒蛋中用的是有机鸡蛋，在充满从家乡进口的红辣椒和有机九叶四川花椒的菜单上，这道菜是像家一样的缓冲点。农场养育的黑猪肉(Berkshire），来自Spring Mountain地区的无激素无抗生素的鸡肉，还有安格斯牛肉，都是他们选用的食材。
魅力休斯顿网
Jul 11, 2019
夫妻肺片变身“史密斯夫妇”，让地道川味爆红休斯顿！
Jun 8, 2019
从美国科研人员到餐饮集团老板，这条跨界之路是如何炼成的？
上周四5月30日晚，休斯顿四位知名餐饮行业的负责人受邀到市中心的Prohibition Theatre分享了他们扩张餐厅的经验和心得。他们分别是：三家美食广场的负责人Anh Mai、Berg Hospitality集团创始人Benjamin Berg、六家餐馆和酒吧负责人Ken Bridge以及双椒集团创始人杨玉楠女士。 此次活动由NextSeed主办。这是一家总部位于休斯顿的金融科技公司，旨在创建一个新的投资市场，将主要商业区里的小企业与希望直接投资于当地企业的个人连结起来。通过NextSeed，蓬勃发展的本地企业可以在展示业务的同时在线筹集资金，任何人都可以投资这些产品，来创造一个与股票市场脱钩的可持续替代资产类别。
休斯顿在线
May 20, 2019
双椒杨玉楠受邀主讲：从独立餐厅到餐馆群(From Standalone to Restaurant Group)
世界名人网讯 餐饮指南休斯敦美食巡礼本周收到通知，由“下一个种子(NextSeed)”组织的重头戏“从独立餐厅到餐馆群(From Standalone to Restaurant Group)”将于2019年5月30日晚在Prohibition Theatre(1008 Prairie Street, Houston, TX 77002)举行。多家媒体评选为第一的双椒连锁餐厅董事长杨玉楠博士将受邀作为嘉宾主讲人介绍双椒三年六家餐厅的成功经验。本次活动门票可以在eventbrite预售，$15美元，有兴趣的朋友们赶紧购票，不要错过。
世界名人网
May 12, 2019
温暖从容|来自四位女神妈妈的节日分享
两个孩子的母亲Yunan，在创立Pepper Twins双椒中国料理店之前，从事了15年的医学研究。“如果不是因为在怀孕的过程中发现了血小板减低的问题，可能至今我还会坚持当初的理想，做一名科研临床并行的临床医生。但是为了孩子，我选择放弃自己的初衷，转行。“如今，由她主理的双椒中国料理店成为了中外友人在休斯顿最爱去的中餐厅。
Fairy Hill
Apr 18, 2019
双椒荣登《市书》CityBook杂志 主流最爱火辣辣
最新一期的休斯敦主流杂志市书CityBook撰文介绍双椒连锁川菜馆。标题是“火辣Fire and Spice”，作者是爱德华纳沃卡，照片摄影师为Shannon O’Hara。作者指出，基于她的医学研究背景和四川文化，移民创建的双椒餐厅帝国正在快速增长！
Mar 25, 2019
双椒小龙虾节(Pepper Twin Crawfish Festival)登场！多重优惠 直送府邸
世界名人网讯 刚刚评选为2019休斯敦最好的中餐厅，双椒日前正式推出小龙虾节(Pepper Twin Crawfish Festival)！领风气之先，适合您的口味，麻辣(Spicy Sichuan)/蒜香(Garlic Butter)/鱼香(Sweet And Sour)小龙虾，正宗川味，大厨秘制配方料理，独家为您呈现最正宗的家乡美味。 同时集方便与便捷于一身，老饕们大呼过瘾死了！
世界名人网
Mar 25, 2019
休斯顿川菜界的“扛把子”非它莫属! 限时福利吃小龙虾就送Mochidoki冰激凌!
正经的川菜，讲究的不只是一味辣，更讲究的是那股子鲜辣与其他食材搭配的适宜得当。双椒的菜，就算隔着屏幕都能闻到香气！连开6家分店，就算没吃过你也知道这里绝不一般！
Mar 19, 2019
刷爆朋友圈的小龙虾在这里！
双椒本周又新进货源！小龙虾买5磅送1磅！！ 另外【活动期间双椒Memorial city center 堂吃客户 只要说出暗号：吃货联盟推荐，即可享受2磅小龙虾赠送Mochikoki冰淇淋一枚，每多订购1磅多赠送1枚冰淇淋哦 餐厅地址：799 Town and Country Blvd, Suite 200, Houston, TX, 77024】
吃货联盟
Feb 08, 2019
“双椒”被评为休斯顿最佳中餐馆，能源走廊6号店即将正式开业！
最近，休斯顿主流媒体HoustonPress在年度最佳评选中（Best of Houston®），把双椒列为休斯顿2019年度最佳中餐馆（2019: Best Chinese Restaurant）。在春节前夕，双椒还作为海外优秀中餐馆的代表，接受了CCTV的采访，节目将于近期在央视播出。
Feb 08, 2019
最佳休斯顿2019最佳中餐厅出炉：双椒(River Oaks)
世界名人网讯 2019年1月29日凌晨4时整，休斯敦美国主流最有影响力的报纸之一——休斯敦新闻报(Houston Press)郑重宣布：2019休斯敦最佳中餐厅得主为双椒(River Oaks)。 休斯敦新闻报(Houston Press)在大休斯敦地区数千家中餐馆里，每年只选出一家最佳中餐厅。双椒获此殊荣，代表着双椒无论在菜色、食材、管理、服务等诸多方面均获得了一致的好评和成就。能把人们从全美最大的中国城布满美食的餐厅里拉向市中心，双椒所追求的最正宗的充满乡土气息的中餐就真实地呈现在世人的眼前。喜欢美食的朋友们，走起！我们一起相约，下一顿就在双椒见！不见不散！
世界名人网
Jan 22, 2019
新店开张！新菜出炉
双椒Memorial City Center六号店迎来了Soft Opening！ 具体餐馆信息如下： 地址：799 Town and Country Blvd, Suite 200, Houston, TX, 77024Raw Sushi 隔壁，二楼电话：832-831-2163停车：city center有两个停车楼，一个studio movie grill 一个 lifetime fitness。一楼基本付费，二楼基本办公，三楼以上免费。高峰时期别找一楼二楼了，直接往三楼开，或者就停一楼付个钱。Queensbury Ln南面一片也是免费停车。
Aug 22, 2018
火锅烧烤牛肉面，你想念的国内美食都在这儿 | 休斯顿中餐全攻略
俘获休斯顿老美的川菜,在休斯顿地区得奖无数，着实有不小的名气。虽然备受老美赞誉，但不是那种传统意义上难吃的“美式中餐”。而是有地道川菜的底子，且经过一系列跟创新和菜系间的融合，变得非常适合大众的口味。加上温暖舒适的店内布置和贴心的服务，是留学生们公认的“暖心食堂”。
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Jun 17, 2018
科学家转行开川菜馆靠谱吗？她的夫妻肺片顾客排队来吃 餐馆登美食杂志榜首
“我的前半生都贡献给了热爱的科研事业，既然身体不能再支持我从事科研，那我就把另一个爱好当事业吧。”
– 杨钰楠
杨钰楠，从事医学研究11年，在中国完成博士学位后赴美继续攻读博士后。来美国第二年就获得由国防部提供的肿瘤研究资金，这个国防部研究经费的获得率仅有2.7%。在威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校博士后的第二年，杨钰楠就升为助理科学家。作为川妹子，杨钰楠喜欢做菜、喜欢美食，特别享受给家人烹饪的感觉。她说，做饭是她科研结束后的娱乐活动。。。。
美国中文网
Jun 12, 2018
Top 1-Pepper Twins 双椒 “舌尖上的美国” （2017年）
在美国休斯顿，有一家非常知名的正宗川菜馆。餐馆提供的都是原汁原味、无添加、绿色有机健康食材和食物，连川菜需要的红油都是自己用各种原材料制作而成。它就是双椒川菜馆。
2017年5月份，双椒参加了由Asia Star TV联合多家知名媒体举办的大型美食评选节目——“舌尖上的美国”，最终获得了年度第一名的好成绩!
AsiaStarTV
Apr 14, 2018
亚洲协会亚洲美食之旅：双椒杨玉楠教你做饺子
2018年4月14日中午11时至12时30分，休斯敦亚洲协会德州分会教育中心，一场别开生面的亚洲美食之旅(Food Tours of Asia)系列活动双椒杨玉楠教您包饺子(Dumpling Making with Yunan Yang of Pepper Twins)正在这里举行。
世界名人网讯
2018年4月14日中午11时至12时30分，休斯敦亚洲协会德州分会教育中心，一场别开生面的亚洲美食之旅(Food Tours of Asia)系列活动双椒杨玉楠教您包饺子(Dumpling Making with Yunan Yang of Pepper Twins)正在这里举行。
世界名人网讯
Dec 22, 2017
这也许是大休斯顿地区最好吃最有情怀的中餐馆
休斯顿”双椒”餐馆（Pepper Twins）有众多粉丝，我也算是其中之一，吃遍了她家的全部四家店River Oaks店、Montrose店、Kirby店、Katy店。每个分店各有所长，不过我更偏爱Katy店，因为好吃还份量大，吃起来特别痛快，有些菜式还是别家没有的。
魅力休斯顿网
休斯顿”双椒”餐馆（Pepper Twins）有众多粉丝，我也算是其中之一，吃遍了她家的全部四家店River Oaks店、Montrose店、Kirby店、Katy店。每个分店各有所长，不过我更偏爱Katy店，因为好吃还份量大，吃起来特别痛快，有些菜式还是别家没有的。
魅力休斯顿网
Sep 29, 2017
双椒Pepper Twins味美人美心更美！用心做菜！有情有义！
大家还记的上半年休斯顿主打有机餐食的Pepper Twins双椒川菜馆在美国《GQ》杂志发布了餐饮品赏大师Brett Martin最新出炉的“美国2017餐饮排行榜”，Pepper Twins的招牌凉菜“夫妻肺片”荣登榜首，被评选为“年度开胃菜”（Appetizer of the Year）。当时可是红遍朋友圈和各大报纸啊！厉害了我的猴子屯的川菜馆！
美国同城网
大家还记的上半年休斯顿主打有机餐食的Pepper Twins双椒川菜馆在美国《GQ》杂志发布了餐饮品赏大师Brett Martin最新出炉的“美国2017餐饮排行榜”，Pepper Twins的招牌凉菜“夫妻肺片”荣登榜首，被评选为“年度开胃菜”（Appetizer of the Year）。当时可是红遍朋友圈和各大报纸啊！厉害了我的猴子屯的川菜馆！
美国同城网
Sep 28, 2017
慷慨和善良 — 記休斯頓雙椒集團楊玉楠董事長在哈維颶風中的愛心表現
剛剛過去不久的哈維颶風摧毀了休斯敦許多地方，颶風和洪水肆虐之處滿目蒼夷，但是天災無情人有情，關鍵時刻華人社區互幫互助，這一次風災湧現出了不少華人英雄，其中，休斯頓雙椒集團楊玉楠董事長於洪災最嚴重的 8月27日三次開著自己的SUV冒險挺近受災同胞子林的家，並堅持不懈於第二天早晨8.28日6點救出子林全家。自己的車因為冒險通過洪水淹過的輔路，引擎燈以及拉響警報。楊玉楠家住梨城，聽說了休斯敦城裏的洪水新聞之後，第一時間開著車一次又一次尋找去往休斯敦城區的路，經過一天的不懈努力，汽車油也快耗盡的時候趕到城裏緊急投入到各種救災賑災活動中去。
今日美國新聞網
剛剛過去不久的哈維颶風摧毀了休斯敦許多地方，颶風和洪水肆虐之處滿目蒼夷，但是天災無情人有情，關鍵時刻華人社區互幫互助，這一次風災湧現出了不少華人英雄，其中，休斯頓雙椒集團楊玉楠董事長於洪災最嚴重的 8月27日三次開著自己的SUV冒險挺近受災同胞子林的家，並堅持不懈於第二天早晨8.28日6點救出子林全家。自己的車因為冒險通過洪水淹過的輔路，引擎燈以及拉響警報。楊玉楠家住梨城，聽說了休斯敦城裏的洪水新聞之後，第一時間開著車一次又一次尋找去往休斯敦城區的路，經過一天的不懈努力，汽車油也快耗盡的時候趕到城裏緊急投入到各種救災賑災活動中去。
今日美國新聞網
May 26, 2017
夫妻肺片获评2017年美国“年度开胃菜”，它的译名“史密斯夫妇”，你觉得贴切吗？
近日，美国《GQ》杂志发布了餐饮品赏大师Brett Martin最新出炉的“美国2017餐饮排行榜”，位于休斯敦的Pepper Twins双椒川菜馆的招牌凉菜“夫妻肺片”荣登榜首，被评选为“年度开胃菜”（Appetizer of the Year）。
中国日报
近日，美国《GQ》杂志发布了餐饮品赏大师Brett Martin最新出炉的“美国2017餐饮排行榜”，位于休斯敦的Pepper Twins双椒川菜馆的招牌凉菜“夫妻肺片”荣登榜首，被评选为“年度开胃菜”（Appetizer of the Year）。
中国日报
Apr 21, 2017
养生为主题 餐饮领风气 双椒川菜名列GQ杂志2017年度之最——三号店即将开幕
国际著名杂志《GQ》(中文译为智族)发布了餐饮品赏大师Brett Martin最新出炉的美国2017餐饮排行榜，休斯敦Pepper Twins双椒川菜的头台冷餐“夫妻肺片”(Mr. and Mrs. Smith)荣登榜首，被选为年度头台(Appetizer of the Year) 2017年度之最。Pepper Twins继在休斯敦上流社区River Oaks、Montrose两家成功之后，第三家以养生系列为主打的Pepper Twins双椒Kirby店也即将开幕，欢迎旧雨新知前往品赏。
世界名人网
国际著名杂志《GQ》(中文译为智族)发布了餐饮品赏大师Brett Martin最新出炉的美国2017餐饮排行榜，休斯敦Pepper Twins双椒川菜的头台冷餐“夫妻肺片”(Mr. and Mrs. Smith)荣登榜首，被选为年度头台(Appetizer of the Year) 2017年度之最。Pepper Twins继在休斯敦上流社区River Oaks、Montrose两家成功之后，第三家以养生系列为主打的Pepper Twins双椒Kirby店也即将开幕，欢迎旧雨新知前往品赏。
世界名人网
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April 19th, 2020
Chinese University Alumni Group Donates Masks to Health Care Workers and First Responders
When the cases began decreasing in Wuhan, China, and the curve started climbing in Houston — that’s when Deqing Yang and his fellow Tsinghua University alumni knew the tide had turned.
In January and February, members of the Houston chapter of the Tsinghua University Alumni Association had begun fundraising to send masks to Wuhan, worried about the country they had left behind. Then everything changed in March.
Yang, who presides over the Houston chapter, shifted his attention from helping strained hospitals and communities in China to fundraising to buy protective gear for health care workers in the Houston area, who have fretted over a lack of protective equipment and the risks of caring for those sickened by the new coronavirus.
Yunan Yang, founder of Pepper Twins on Sunday, April 19, 2020, in Houston. Yang has been storing protective masks at her restaurant for first responders and medical professionals
July 18th, 2019
Top 100 Houston Restaurant 2019: Pepper Twins
The thing that distinguishes Sichuan native Yunan Yang’s restaurant from its peers is the concerted effort to use organic and healthful ingredients, an offshoot of Yang’s previous career as a cancer researcher. Organic eggs go into her family-recipe sautéed eggs with tomatoes, a homey resting point in a menu tingling with hot red chile pods and organic nine-leaf Sichuan peppercorns imported from Yang’s hometown. Farmed Berkshire pork, Spring Mountain hormone- and antibiotic-free chicken and Angus beef find their way into other dishes. Yes, they serve tilapia, but once you taste the electric Hot Diving Fish, you may decide you were wrong to snub it. There’s plenty of Sichuan ma and la action going on in Pepper Twins Chicken, Spicy Ivy Pork Ribs and the ineffable Broken Heart Jelly Noodles, all of which bear the two-out-of-a-possible-three heat designation. Need to eat gluten-free? They’ve got you covered.
WHAT TO ORDER: Hot Diving Fish; dry-fried green beans; garlic cucumber; Mr. & Mrs. Smith beef tendon; hot wood-ear salad.
July 18th, 2019
Scientist Turned Chef Ditches Lab to Experiment with Food
HOUSTON – Yunan Yang never intended to open a restaurant when she first arrived in the United States from China 10 years ago. Her plan was to study cancer. As a post-doctorate cancer researcher, she spent six years in Madison, Wisconsin, and worked to publish her findings in scientific journals.
She used radiation and chemicals in her research, which took a toll on her body. She said her job affected her platelet count, which made her bleed easily.
VOANEWSJune 21st, 2019
Texas Monthly: The Best Texas Restaurants in Every City
Sichuan eatery Pepper Twins heats things up by using two different peppers in its flavorful food: Chinese chiles and Sichuan peppercorns. For those don’t mind a fiery bite, Texas Monthly recommends the Mountain City Noodle with homemade chicken broth. For something less spicy, the magazine suggests the sauteed Golden Egg and Sweet Corn with a preserved duck egg.
Pepper Twins – 915 W Gary stMay 1st, 2019
A Four Star Review
The restaurant suffers nothing in the food, and it does so in what feels like a relatively modest atmosphere. Make no mistake, the food is the first and foremost part of the place, the ambiance comes second, but I would still say it is a good place to bring a family, or a date, or maybe just someone who has a love of this special kind of Chinese cuisine. Chinese cuisine is often oversimplified, and some of those more subtle ingredients like those in Sichuan food get overlooked. This is going to be an awesome representation of that unique kind of food. Give it a try.
Another Food CriticMay 1st, 2019
Pepper Twins may be the best Chinese restaurant in Houston
Houston Life | KPRC 2Apr 22, 2019
Fire and Spice
An immigrant’s Pepper Twins restaurant empire, informed by her medical-research background and Sichuan culture, is growing fast!
Houston City Book (2019 May issue, page 80 – 82)Jan 29, 2019
Best of Houston®2019: Best Chinese
Best Chinese Restaurant: Pepper Twins (River Oaks)
Houston has one of the most vibrant Chinatowns in the country, so when a Chinese restaurant manages to be so good that it can lure people away from Chinatown and back into the city, it must be something kind of special. That’s what Yunan Yang created with her mini-chain of Pepper Twins restaurants, the River Oaks location being a particular standout. Specializing in what Yang likes to call “country-style organic Chinese,” the food at Pepper Twins is vibrant, unapologetically spicy, clean and delicious. Favorites like the garlic cucumber, fish swimming in pickles, and the Pepper Twins chicken are highly recommended. Better yet, order the spicy beef tendon dish known as “Mr. & Mrs. Smith,” GQ Magazine’s pick for Appetizer of the Year in 2017, to experience a “numbing, burning, textural masterpiece.”
HoustonPressAug 17th, 2018
Katy Is the New Asia Town
…Pepper Twins
Did you know that the local chain’s “Mr. and Mrs. Smith”—the cold sliced-beef-tendon dish also called fuqi feipian—was named best appetizer of 2017 by GQ? Like its four sister restaurants, the newest location of Yunan Yan’s mini-empire showcases the complexity of lip-tingling, mouth-numbing Sichuan peppercorns. It’s BYOB—bring a chilled white to beat the heat.
April 11, 2018
One of Houston’s favorite Chinese restaurants is opening a new location
Good news for fans of Pepper Twins, the authentic Sichuan-style restaurant that currently has five locations in Houston: another is on the way. A sixth outpost will open at City Center by the end of the 2018, and foodies all across America are rejoicing.
Houston Culture MapApril 11, 2018
One of Houston’s favorite Chinese restaurants is opening a new location
Good news for fans of Pepper Twins, the authentic Sichuan-style restaurant that currently has five locations in Houston: another is on the way. A sixth outpost will open at City Center by the end of the 2018, and foodies all across America are rejoicing.
Houston Culture MapFeb 1, 2018
SUCCESS STORY: Yunan Yang, the Woman Behind Pepper Twins Chinese Restaurant
After a career in cancer medical research, Yunan Yang opened Pepper Twins which serves organic and fresh, Sichuan Chinese food that retains the fantastic flavors from her homeland.
Katy MagazineAug 10, 2018
Surprise Texas Spots Dominate National Mag’s 10 Best New Restaurants in America Rankings
Take Pepper Twins, the low-key Houston restaurants that specialize in country style organic Chinese food. Pepper Twins isn’t trying to impress anyone with fancy press releases. It’s all about good food and service (your water glass will never go empty). And there it is being lauded for having one of the dishes of the year by GQ Magazine.
PaperCityApr 21, 2017
The Best New Steak of 2017, Plus 6 More Superlative Food Moments
That began to change as I gingerly—and then increasingly less gingerly—began to eat an appetizer called Mr. & Mrs. Smith, a more palatably named take on the classic Sichuan fuqi feipian, “lung of the husband and wife”: cold slices of beef tendon and tongue, tossed with sesame paste, Sichuan peppercorns, scallions, and chiles. I had not realized how much I was sleepwalking until flavor hit me in the face. The dish is a numbing, burning, textural masterpiece, and the kind of thing a budding empire is built on. Indeed, Chongqing native Yunan Yang (who is also involved, with her sister, in the restaurant Cooking Girl) already has two Pepper Twins locations and two more in her sights.
GQApr 20, 2017
Time Out Says: FIVE STARS!
This perpetually packed spot presents traditional Szechuan-style Chinese fare in a stylish atmosphere. The menu lists only one type of dumplings—pork—but they’re a dream, thin pockets of dough pinched around juicy, well-seasoned organic ground meat. Wash them down with a cold beer of your choosing—the restaurant is BYOB.
Time Out AmericaApr 4, 2017
The 15th Annual Menu of Menus Extravanganza
With more than 40 area restaurants participating this year, guests will sample from tastings of local hotspots including Boheme, Beaver’s, Field & Tides, Krisp Bird & Batter, Peli Peli Kitchen and Pepper Twins alongside wine, beer and cocktail sampling.
Houston PressFeb 14, 2017
Five reasons to add Pepper Twins to the top of your Montrose dining list
Serving up authentic, piquant, peppery Chinese cuisine, Montrose’s recently opened Pepper Twins offers a menu filled with Sichuan dishes serious enough for Chinatown. First things you’ll notice when sampling a dish at this spunky little BYOB joint? The meats melt in your mouth, the fare is full of zesty spices that add an extra dimension of delicious to each bite, and the ingredients are high-quality and naturally flavorful.
Houston ChronicleFeb 13, 2017
Second Time’s Also the Charm at Arthur Ave and Pepper Twins
The reason to visit Pepper Twins is to have a Chongqing-native waiter guide you through a menu of his childhood comforts, although comfort may be relative. The restaurant’s name comes from a combination of Szechuan peppercorns (they call it nine-leaf pepper on the menu) and explosively hot, tiny chiles that flavor eponymous dishes featuring chicken, frog’s legs and “fish slides.” Ultra-tender Pepper Twins Beef practically vaporizes upon first bite, as if the fusion of numbing spice and heat were searing right through it.
HoustoniaFeb 10, 2017
New name, same food for reopened Montrose Chinese restaurant
One of the best Chinese restaurants in Montrose has a new name, but the food hasn’t changed. Cooking Girl, the Sichuan-style restaurant next to Boheme that emerged as one of 2015’s most pleasant surprise restaurant openings, is now known as Pepper Twins, the restaurant announced yesterday on Facebook. The restaurant has also reopened after being closed since mid-January to repair a sewer issue.
Culture MapJan 31, 2017
Indulge in Spicy Szechuan Food With Pepper Twins
I always make it a point to try at least one item that is recommended by the server, prefacing the request with a genuine trust bestowed upon him/her to guide me as a fellow diner and not as an opportunity to sell the most expensive item on the menu. This practice seems to work better at places like Pepper Twins than at more high-end restaurants. Upon the suggestion of the server, we ordered the Pepper Twins chicken, the first item on the specialty list.
Houston PressJan 25, 2017
The 17 best Chinese restaurants in America
For Houston’s hotheads, spicy Sichuan cuisine all comes down to two restaurants: Mala Sichuan Bistro and this sizzling upstart. Yunan Yang and her sister Lily Luo derive their equally thoughtful and heartfelt brand of cooking from their mother—who “came from a very big family” in Chongqing, where she learned “a lot of secret recipes from the family cook”—as well as from Yang’s own background in cancer research, which reveals itself in her emphasis on wholesome ingredients, from organic meats and veggies to digestive aids like the dried plum powder she sprinkles on fried sweet potatoes and, of course, imported numbing peppercorns. The effects run from pure exhilaration, as with the fried beef cubes and hot-sauce boiled fish brimming with chilies, to soothing relief in the form of meltingly tender, sweet-salty “soft bacon” or scrambled, fried tomatoes and eggs, accompanied by a fresh green-bean smoothie.
New York PostJan, 2017
Chinese Revolution
The artfully assessed trend is very much at play in Houston, it seems, as two wickedly talented chef-entrepreneurs have opened hip, authentic restaurants foodies are going gaga over. The still-new Montrose smash Cooking Girl (315 Fairview St., 832.649.7175) and the even newer Heights-area Ginger and Fork (4705 Inker St., 713.861.8883) are both fun and accessible, but each has its own very unique identity and take on the cuisine. Of course, all this follows the triumphant expansion of Mala Sichuan Bistro from Bellaire’s Asian district to Montrose, which the Journal actually called out as part of the new wave of Chinese restaurants in America.
Houston City BookNov 25, 2016
Feel the Burn
Wait for it. Is it kicking in? Hold on—yes, no, yes! Here it is! First comes the bright, pungent flavor. Then the fizzy-numb sensation. Then something even more remarkable happens: Flavors start to gently glow. Salt seems subtly saltier, sweet becomes sweeter, chiles more vibrant. It’s like the way things look sharper when you put on yellow snow goggles. My friends Paige and Bob and I are having lunch at two-month-old Pepper Twins, in Houston, and, no, we haven’t been smoking anything. We’re under the sway of Zanthoxylum simulans, and even though we’ve partaken of the wily Sichuan peppercorn before, each time is an adventure all over again.
Texas MonthlyNov 2, 2016
Healthy, Balanced Dishes Bursting with Flavor at The Cooking Girls
Yunan Yang, Owner of The Cooking Girls restaurant in Houston, TX is a former medical researcher and an inspired cook. She credits her mother-in-law not only with teaching her how to cook but also about the importance of food.
Texas Homes for SaleJuly 18th, 2019
Top 100 Houston Restaurant 2019: Pepper Twins
The thing that distinguishes Sichuan native Yunan Yang’s restaurant from its peers is the concerted effort to use organic and healthful ingredients, an offshoot of Yang’s previous career as a cancer researcher. Organic eggs go into her family-recipe sautéed eggs with tomatoes, a homey resting point in a menu tingling with hot red chile pods and organic nine-leaf Sichuan peppercorns imported from Yang’s hometown. Farmed Berkshire pork, Spring Mountain hormone- and antibiotic-free chicken and Angus beef find their way into other dishes. Yes, they serve tilapia, but once you taste the electric Hot Diving Fish, you may decide you were wrong to snub it. There’s plenty of Sichuan ma and la action going on in Pepper Twins Chicken, Spicy Ivy Pork Ribs and the ineffable Broken Heart Jelly Noodles, all of which bear the two-out-of-a-possible-three heat designation. Need to eat gluten-free? They’ve got you covered.
WHAT TO ORDER: Hot Diving Fish; dry-fried green beans; garlic cucumber; Mr. & Mrs. Smith beef tendon; hot wood-ear salad.
July 18th, 2019
Scientist Turned Chef Ditches Lab to Experiment with Food
HOUSTON – Yunan Yang never intended to open a restaurant when she first arrived in the United States from China 10 years ago. Her plan was to study cancer. As a post-doctorate cancer researcher, she spent six years in Madison, Wisconsin, and worked to publish her findings in scientific journals.
She used radiation and chemicals in her research, which took a toll on her body. She said her job affected her platelet count, which made her bleed easily.
VOANEWSJune 21st, 2019
Texas Monthly: The Best Texas Restaurants in Every City
Sichuan eatery Pepper Twins heats things up by using two different peppers in its flavorful food: Chinese chiles and Sichuan peppercorns. For those don’t mind a fiery bite, Texas Monthly recommends the Mountain City Noodle with homemade chicken broth. For something less spicy, the magazine suggests the sauteed Golden Egg and Sweet Corn with a preserved duck egg.
Pepper Twins – 915 W Gary stMay 1st, 2019
A Four Star Review
The restaurant suffers nothing in the food, and it does so in what feels like a relatively modest atmosphere. Make no mistake, the food is the first and foremost part of the place, the ambiance comes second, but I would still say it is a good place to bring a family, or a date, or maybe just someone who has a love of this special kind of Chinese cuisine. Chinese cuisine is often oversimplified, and some of those more subtle ingredients like those in Sichuan food get overlooked. This is going to be an awesome representation of that unique kind of food. Give it a try.
Another Food CriticMay 1st, 2019
Pepper Twins may be the best Chinese restaurant in Houston
Houston Life | KPRC 2Apr 22, 2019
Fire and Spice
An immigrant’s Pepper Twins restaurant empire, informed by her medical-research background and Sichuan culture, is growing fast!
Houston City Book (2019 May issue, page 80 – 82)Jan 29, 2019
Best of Houston®2019: Best Chinese
Best Chinese Restaurant: Pepper Twins (River Oaks)
Houston has one of the most vibrant Chinatowns in the country, so when a Chinese restaurant manages to be so good that it can lure people away from Chinatown and back into the city, it must be something kind of special. That’s what Yunan Yang created with her mini-chain of Pepper Twins restaurants, the River Oaks location being a particular standout. Specializing in what Yang likes to call “country-style organic Chinese,” the food at Pepper Twins is vibrant, unapologetically spicy, clean and delicious. Favorites like the garlic cucumber, fish swimming in pickles, and the Pepper Twins chicken are highly recommended. Better yet, order the spicy beef tendon dish known as “Mr. & Mrs. Smith,” GQ Magazine’s pick for Appetizer of the Year in 2017, to experience a “numbing, burning, textural masterpiece.”
HoustonPressAug 17th, 2018
Katy Is the New Asia Town
…Pepper Twins
Did you know that the local chain’s “Mr. and Mrs. Smith”—the cold sliced-beef-tendon dish also called fuqi feipian—was named best appetizer of 2017 by GQ? Like its four sister restaurants, the newest location of Yunan Yan’s mini-empire showcases the complexity of lip-tingling, mouth-numbing Sichuan peppercorns. It’s BYOB—bring a chilled white to beat the heat.
April 11, 2018
One of Houston’s favorite Chinese restaurants is opening a new location
Good news for fans of Pepper Twins, the authentic Sichuan-style restaurant that currently has five locations in Houston: another is on the way. A sixth outpost will open at City Center by the end of the 2018, and foodies all across America are rejoicing.
Houston Culture MapApril 11, 2018
One of Houston’s favorite Chinese restaurants is opening a new location
Good news for fans of Pepper Twins, the authentic Sichuan-style restaurant that currently has five locations in Houston: another is on the way. A sixth outpost will open at City Center by the end of the 2018, and foodies all across America are rejoicing.
Houston Culture MapFeb 1, 2018
SUCCESS STORY: Yunan Yang, the Woman Behind Pepper Twins Chinese Restaurant
After a career in cancer medical research, Yunan Yang opened Pepper Twins which serves organic and fresh, Sichuan Chinese food that retains the fantastic flavors from her homeland.
Katy MagazineAug 10, 2018
Surprise Texas Spots Dominate National Mag’s 10 Best New Restaurants in America Rankings
Take Pepper Twins, the low-key Houston restaurants that specialize in country style organic Chinese food. Pepper Twins isn’t trying to impress anyone with fancy press releases. It’s all about good food and service (your water glass will never go empty). And there it is being lauded for having one of the dishes of the year by GQ Magazine.
PaperCityApr 21, 2017
The Best New Steak of 2017, Plus 6 More Superlative Food Moments
That began to change as I gingerly—and then increasingly less gingerly—began to eat an appetizer called Mr. & Mrs. Smith, a more palatably named take on the classic Sichuan fuqi feipian, “lung of the husband and wife”: cold slices of beef tendon and tongue, tossed with sesame paste, Sichuan peppercorns, scallions, and chiles. I had not realized how much I was sleepwalking until flavor hit me in the face. The dish is a numbing, burning, textural masterpiece, and the kind of thing a budding empire is built on. Indeed, Chongqing native Yunan Yang (who is also involved, with her sister, in the restaurant Cooking Girl) already has two Pepper Twins locations and two more in her sights.
GQApr 20, 2017
Time Out Says: FIVE STARS!
This perpetually packed spot presents traditional Szechuan-style Chinese fare in a stylish atmosphere. The menu lists only one type of dumplings—pork—but they’re a dream, thin pockets of dough pinched around juicy, well-seasoned organic ground meat. Wash them down with a cold beer of your choosing—the restaurant is BYOB.
Time Out AmericaApr 4, 2017
The 15th Annual Menu of Menus Extravanganza
With more than 40 area restaurants participating this year, guests will sample from tastings of local hotspots including Boheme, Beaver’s, Field & Tides, Krisp Bird & Batter, Peli Peli Kitchen and Pepper Twins alongside wine, beer and cocktail sampling.
Houston PressFeb 14, 2017
Five reasons to add Pepper Twins to the top of your Montrose dining list
Serving up authentic, piquant, peppery Chinese cuisine, Montrose’s recently opened Pepper Twins offers a menu filled with Sichuan dishes serious enough for Chinatown. First things you’ll notice when sampling a dish at this spunky little BYOB joint? The meats melt in your mouth, the fare is full of zesty spices that add an extra dimension of delicious to each bite, and the ingredients are high-quality and naturally flavorful.
Houston ChronicleFeb 13, 2017
Second Time’s Also the Charm at Arthur Ave and Pepper Twins
The reason to visit Pepper Twins is to have a Chongqing-native waiter guide you through a menu of his childhood comforts, although comfort may be relative. The restaurant’s name comes from a combination of Szechuan peppercorns (they call it nine-leaf pepper on the menu) and explosively hot, tiny chiles that flavor eponymous dishes featuring chicken, frog’s legs and “fish slides.” Ultra-tender Pepper Twins Beef practically vaporizes upon first bite, as if the fusion of numbing spice and heat were searing right through it.
HoustoniaFeb 10, 2017
New name, same food for reopened Montrose Chinese restaurant
One of the best Chinese restaurants in Montrose has a new name, but the food hasn’t changed. Cooking Girl, the Sichuan-style restaurant next to Boheme that emerged as one of 2015’s most pleasant surprise restaurant openings, is now known as Pepper Twins, the restaurant announced yesterday on Facebook. The restaurant has also reopened after being closed since mid-January to repair a sewer issue.
Culture MapJan 31, 2017
Indulge in Spicy Szechuan Food With Pepper Twins
I always make it a point to try at least one item that is recommended by the server, prefacing the request with a genuine trust bestowed upon him/her to guide me as a fellow diner and not as an opportunity to sell the most expensive item on the menu. This practice seems to work better at places like Pepper Twins than at more high-end restaurants. Upon the suggestion of the server, we ordered the Pepper Twins chicken, the first item on the specialty list.
Houston PressJan 25, 2017
The 17 best Chinese restaurants in America
For Houston’s hotheads, spicy Sichuan cuisine all comes down to two restaurants: Mala Sichuan Bistro and this sizzling upstart. Yunan Yang and her sister Lily Luo derive their equally thoughtful and heartfelt brand of cooking from their mother—who “came from a very big family” in Chongqing, where she learned “a lot of secret recipes from the family cook”—as well as from Yang’s own background in cancer research, which reveals itself in her emphasis on wholesome ingredients, from organic meats and veggies to digestive aids like the dried plum powder she sprinkles on fried sweet potatoes and, of course, imported numbing peppercorns. The effects run from pure exhilaration, as with the fried beef cubes and hot-sauce boiled fish brimming with chilies, to soothing relief in the form of meltingly tender, sweet-salty “soft bacon” or scrambled, fried tomatoes and eggs, accompanied by a fresh green-bean smoothie.
New York PostJan, 2017
Chinese Revolution
The artfully assessed trend is very much at play in Houston, it seems, as two wickedly talented chef-entrepreneurs have opened hip, authentic restaurants foodies are going gaga over. The still-new Montrose smash Cooking Girl (315 Fairview St., 832.649.7175) and the even newer Heights-area Ginger and Fork (4705 Inker St., 713.861.8883) are both fun and accessible, but each has its own very unique identity and take on the cuisine. Of course, all this follows the triumphant expansion of Mala Sichuan Bistro from Bellaire’s Asian district to Montrose, which the Journal actually called out as part of the new wave of Chinese restaurants in America.
Houston City BookNov 25, 2016
Feel the Burn
Wait for it. Is it kicking in? Hold on—yes, no, yes! Here it is! First comes the bright, pungent flavor. Then the fizzy-numb sensation. Then something even more remarkable happens: Flavors start to gently glow. Salt seems subtly saltier, sweet becomes sweeter, chiles more vibrant. It’s like the way things look sharper when you put on yellow snow goggles. My friends Paige and Bob and I are having lunch at two-month-old Pepper Twins, in Houston, and, no, we haven’t been smoking anything. We’re under the sway of Zanthoxylum simulans, and even though we’ve partaken of the wily Sichuan peppercorn before, each time is an adventure all over again.
Texas MonthlyNov 2, 2016
Healthy, Balanced Dishes Bursting with Flavor at The Cooking Girls
Yunan Yang, Owner of The Cooking Girls restaurant in Houston, TX is a former medical researcher and an inspired cook. She credits her mother-in-law not only with teaching her how to cook but also about the importance of food.
Texas Homes for SaleJuly 18th, 2019
Scientist Turned Chef Ditches Lab to Experiment with Food
HOUSTON – Yunan Yang never intended to open a restaurant when she first arrived in the United States from China 10 years ago. Her plan was to study cancer. As a post-doctorate cancer researcher, she spent six years in Madison, Wisconsin, and worked to publish her findings in scientific journals.
She used radiation and chemicals in her research, which took a toll on her body. She said her job affected her platelet count, which made her bleed easily.
VOANEWSJune 21st, 2019
Texas Monthly: The Best Texas Restaurants in Every City
Sichuan eatery Pepper Twins heats things up by using two different peppers in its flavorful food: Chinese chiles and Sichuan peppercorns. For those don’t mind a fiery bite, Texas Monthly recommends the Mountain City Noodle with homemade chicken broth. For something less spicy, the magazine suggests the sauteed Golden Egg and Sweet Corn with a preserved duck egg.
Pepper Twins – 915 W Gary stMay 1st, 2019
A Four Star Review
The restaurant suffers nothing in the food, and it does so in what feels like a relatively modest atmosphere. Make no mistake, the food is the first and foremost part of the place, the ambiance comes second, but I would still say it is a good place to bring a family, or a date, or maybe just someone who has a love of this special kind of Chinese cuisine. Chinese cuisine is often oversimplified, and some of those more subtle ingredients like those in Sichuan food get overlooked. This is going to be an awesome representation of that unique kind of food. Give it a try.
Another Food CriticMay 1st, 2019
Pepper Twins may be the best Chinese restaurant in Houston
Houston Life | KPRC 2Apr 22, 2019
Fire and Spice
An immigrant’s Pepper Twins restaurant empire, informed by her medical-research background and Sichuan culture, is growing fast!
Houston City Book (2019 May issue, page 80 – 82)Jan 29, 2019
Best of Houston®2019: Best Chinese
Best Chinese Restaurant: Pepper Twins (River Oaks)
Houston has one of the most vibrant Chinatowns in the country, so when a Chinese restaurant manages to be so good that it can lure people away from Chinatown and back into the city, it must be something kind of special. That’s what Yunan Yang created with her mini-chain of Pepper Twins restaurants, the River Oaks location being a particular standout. Specializing in what Yang likes to call “country-style organic Chinese,” the food at Pepper Twins is vibrant, unapologetically spicy, clean and delicious. Favorites like the garlic cucumber, fish swimming in pickles, and the Pepper Twins chicken are highly recommended. Better yet, order the spicy beef tendon dish known as “Mr. & Mrs. Smith,” GQ Magazine’s pick for Appetizer of the Year in 2017, to experience a “numbing, burning, textural masterpiece.”
HoustonPressAug 17th, 2018
Katy Is the New Asia Town
…Pepper Twins
Did you know that the local chain’s “Mr. and Mrs. Smith”—the cold sliced-beef-tendon dish also called fuqi feipian—was named best appetizer of 2017 by GQ? Like its four sister restaurants, the newest location of Yunan Yan’s mini-empire showcases the complexity of lip-tingling, mouth-numbing Sichuan peppercorns. It’s BYOB—bring a chilled white to beat the heat.
April 11, 2018
One of Houston’s favorite Chinese restaurants is opening a new location
Good news for fans of Pepper Twins, the authentic Sichuan-style restaurant that currently has five locations in Houston: another is on the way. A sixth outpost will open at City Center by the end of the 2018, and foodies all across America are rejoicing.
Houston Culture MapApril 11, 2018
One of Houston’s favorite Chinese restaurants is opening a new location
Good news for fans of Pepper Twins, the authentic Sichuan-style restaurant that currently has five locations in Houston: another is on the way. A sixth outpost will open at City Center by the end of the 2018, and foodies all across America are rejoicing.
Houston Culture MapFeb 1, 2018
SUCCESS STORY: Yunan Yang, the Woman Behind Pepper Twins Chinese Restaurant
After a career in cancer medical research, Yunan Yang opened Pepper Twins which serves organic and fresh, Sichuan Chinese food that retains the fantastic flavors from her homeland.
Katy MagazineAug 10, 2018
Surprise Texas Spots Dominate National Mag’s 10 Best New Restaurants in America Rankings
Take Pepper Twins, the low-key Houston restaurants that specialize in country style organic Chinese food. Pepper Twins isn’t trying to impress anyone with fancy press releases. It’s all about good food and service (your water glass will never go empty). And there it is being lauded for having one of the dishes of the year by GQ Magazine.
PaperCityApr 21, 2017
The Best New Steak of 2017, Plus 6 More Superlative Food Moments
That began to change as I gingerly—and then increasingly less gingerly—began to eat an appetizer called Mr. & Mrs. Smith, a more palatably named take on the classic Sichuan fuqi feipian, “lung of the husband and wife”: cold slices of beef tendon and tongue, tossed with sesame paste, Sichuan peppercorns, scallions, and chiles. I had not realized how much I was sleepwalking until flavor hit me in the face. The dish is a numbing, burning, textural masterpiece, and the kind of thing a budding empire is built on. Indeed, Chongqing native Yunan Yang (who is also involved, with her sister, in the restaurant Cooking Girl) already has two Pepper Twins locations and two more in her sights.
GQApr 20, 2017
Time Out Says: FIVE STARS!
This perpetually packed spot presents traditional Szechuan-style Chinese fare in a stylish atmosphere. The menu lists only one type of dumplings—pork—but they’re a dream, thin pockets of dough pinched around juicy, well-seasoned organic ground meat. Wash them down with a cold beer of your choosing—the restaurant is BYOB.
Time Out AmericaApr 4, 2017
The 15th Annual Menu of Menus Extravanganza
With more than 40 area restaurants participating this year, guests will sample from tastings of local hotspots including Boheme, Beaver’s, Field & Tides, Krisp Bird & Batter, Peli Peli Kitchen and Pepper Twins alongside wine, beer and cocktail sampling.
Houston PressFeb 14, 2017
Five reasons to add Pepper Twins to the top of your Montrose dining list
Serving up authentic, piquant, peppery Chinese cuisine, Montrose’s recently opened Pepper Twins offers a menu filled with Sichuan dishes serious enough for Chinatown. First things you’ll notice when sampling a dish at this spunky little BYOB joint? The meats melt in your mouth, the fare is full of zesty spices that add an extra dimension of delicious to each bite, and the ingredients are high-quality and naturally flavorful.
Houston ChronicleFeb 13, 2017
Second Time’s Also the Charm at Arthur Ave and Pepper Twins
The reason to visit Pepper Twins is to have a Chongqing-native waiter guide you through a menu of his childhood comforts, although comfort may be relative. The restaurant’s name comes from a combination of Szechuan peppercorns (they call it nine-leaf pepper on the menu) and explosively hot, tiny chiles that flavor eponymous dishes featuring chicken, frog’s legs and “fish slides.” Ultra-tender Pepper Twins Beef practically vaporizes upon first bite, as if the fusion of numbing spice and heat were searing right through it.
HoustoniaFeb 10, 2017
New name, same food for reopened Montrose Chinese restaurant
One of the best Chinese restaurants in Montrose has a new name, but the food hasn’t changed. Cooking Girl, the Sichuan-style restaurant next to Boheme that emerged as one of 2015’s most pleasant surprise restaurant openings, is now known as Pepper Twins, the restaurant announced yesterday on Facebook. The restaurant has also reopened after being closed since mid-January to repair a sewer issue.
Culture MapJan 31, 2017
Indulge in Spicy Szechuan Food With Pepper Twins
I always make it a point to try at least one item that is recommended by the server, prefacing the request with a genuine trust bestowed upon him/her to guide me as a fellow diner and not as an opportunity to sell the most expensive item on the menu. This practice seems to work better at places like Pepper Twins than at more high-end restaurants. Upon the suggestion of the server, we ordered the Pepper Twins chicken, the first item on the specialty list.
Houston PressJan 25, 2017
The 17 best Chinese restaurants in America
For Houston’s hotheads, spicy Sichuan cuisine all comes down to two restaurants: Mala Sichuan Bistro and this sizzling upstart. Yunan Yang and her sister Lily Luo derive their equally thoughtful and heartfelt brand of cooking from their mother—who “came from a very big family” in Chongqing, where she learned “a lot of secret recipes from the family cook”—as well as from Yang’s own background in cancer research, which reveals itself in her emphasis on wholesome ingredients, from organic meats and veggies to digestive aids like the dried plum powder she sprinkles on fried sweet potatoes and, of course, imported numbing peppercorns. The effects run from pure exhilaration, as with the fried beef cubes and hot-sauce boiled fish brimming with chilies, to soothing relief in the form of meltingly tender, sweet-salty “soft bacon” or scrambled, fried tomatoes and eggs, accompanied by a fresh green-bean smoothie.
New York PostJan, 2017
Chinese Revolution
The artfully assessed trend is very much at play in Houston, it seems, as two wickedly talented chef-entrepreneurs have opened hip, authentic restaurants foodies are going gaga over. The still-new Montrose smash Cooking Girl (315 Fairview St., 832.649.7175) and the even newer Heights-area Ginger and Fork (4705 Inker St., 713.861.8883) are both fun and accessible, but each has its own very unique identity and take on the cuisine. Of course, all this follows the triumphant expansion of Mala Sichuan Bistro from Bellaire’s Asian district to Montrose, which the Journal actually called out as part of the new wave of Chinese restaurants in America.
Houston City BookNov 25, 2016
Feel the Burn
Wait for it. Is it kicking in? Hold on—yes, no, yes! Here it is! First comes the bright, pungent flavor. Then the fizzy-numb sensation. Then something even more remarkable happens: Flavors start to gently glow. Salt seems subtly saltier, sweet becomes sweeter, chiles more vibrant. It’s like the way things look sharper when you put on yellow snow goggles. My friends Paige and Bob and I are having lunch at two-month-old Pepper Twins, in Houston, and, no, we haven’t been smoking anything. We’re under the sway of Zanthoxylum simulans, and even though we’ve partaken of the wily Sichuan peppercorn before, each time is an adventure all over again.
Texas MonthlyNov 2, 2016
Healthy, Balanced Dishes Bursting with Flavor at The Cooking Girls
Yunan Yang, Owner of The Cooking Girls restaurant in Houston, TX is a former medical researcher and an inspired cook. She credits her mother-in-law not only with teaching her how to cook but also about the importance of food.
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Mar 10th, 2022
双椒地道老酸奶走进了休斯顿的超市！一波馋嘴新菜喜迎春天~
休斯顿知名的双椒餐馆Pepper Twins，如果只挑一个特点说，那必然是四个字：推陈出新。很少餐馆像他们一样，根据时节不断更新菜单。这就好像一家为大众服务的家庭厨房，因为老板娘自己嘴馋，总是琢磨着各种菜式的新花样，结果大家都可以跟着大饱口福。 秋冬吃羊肉滋补，春天嘛，就吃细皮嫩肉的土鸡喽。今天推荐的几款新菜，都跟土鸡有关。在介绍之前，先恭喜一下双椒的地道老酸奶通过了FDA的审核，已经进超市售卖啦~。。。
休斯顿在线
Feb 25th, 2022
双椒老酸奶—上市咯！
各位童鞋朝思暮想，舔瓶跪求的双椒老酸奶终于正式出品了！目前已在中国城大中华(Great Wall supermarket)，糖城百佳(JusGo Supermarket)有售，欢迎选购！Apr 2nd, 2021
有麻小陪伴的日子，才是有滋有味的日子啊~垂涎欲滴的家乡新菜也来啦！
最近，我们刊登了一篇小龙虾的文章，有不少读者问：在休斯顿能吃到麻小吗？看来，虽然路易斯安那州口味的小龙虾在德州深入人心，但我们的中国胃依然牵挂的是熟悉的国内麻小的味道。 而且从3月下旬以来，美国小龙虾的个头明显大了起来，吃起来特别的肥美、过瘾！每次在朋友圈看到有人贴红彤彤的小龙虾照片，香辣味好像能从屏幕中穿透过来，让人食指大动。 休斯顿当然有麻小口味的小龙虾了。下面这些食客评论的，就是双椒餐馆的小龙虾，普遍评价是量足、味美。有的食客一人就点了20磅！。。。
休斯顿在线
Dec 15, 2020
休屯圣诞新年季【爆款硬菜】热辣上市，错过可能就不再哦~
好吃的餐馆，好吃的菜总是手慢无。对此，小编深有痛感。感恩节的时候信心满满提前一周向双椒餐馆预订经典的烤鸭套餐，结果被告知已售罄。那次的教训是：在外卖盛行的时代，订餐要趁早啊！否则只能自己哼哧哼哧辛苦做菜（真的不要啦）~
现在距离圣诞节只有不到十天的时间，距离新年也不远了，大餐可以筹备起来啦！幸好善于花样翻新的双椒餐馆（Pepper Twins）适时推出了一批应节的大菜：粉蒸带皮小羊羔、芋儿酥排骨、腊八蒜烧肥肠、歌乐山辣子鸡、香辣小海鲜、虫草花酸菜鲈鱼、极品扣肉、福临门麻辣萝卜干、八宝糯米饭~ 不变的特色是味美量大，老少咸宜。看着菜名就觉着喜庆充实，特别适合节日期间聚餐。
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休斯顿在线
Oct 24, 2020
就冲着这盆巨无霸麻辣羊蝎子，休屯这家餐馆也让人爱了！
俗话说，“寒风起，羊肉香”，天一冷嘛，一到年底，就遏制不住的特别想吃羊肉。从肉质上说，羊肉比猪肉、牛肉细嫩，脂肪与胆固醇含量也比猪肉、牛肉低，性温热。而且小编真是喜欢吃羊肉呀，天天吃也不觉得腻歪。所以听说最近双椒餐馆新增了羊肉系列后，真是心花怒放。 但没想到的是： 1. 种类那么多！有麻辣羊蝎子、带皮红焖羊肉煲、青椒羊肚丝、泡椒羊杂、羊血旺、当归山药羊肚汤、全家宴羊肉汤锅、萝卜炖羊蝎子汤、干烧小羊腿等； 2. 分量那么大！特别是麻辣羊蝎子，一大盆三四个人都啃得很爽，绝对地爱了爱了！顾客评论那也是一片叫好，都感觉商家实在是太实惠了。。。。
休斯顿在线
Dec 6, 2019
双椒继续扩张，第七第八家分店即开，又一批爆款新菜等你来尝
要说休斯顿的中餐馆，双椒（Pepper Twins）无论在华人圈还是老美圈中都可谓无人不知，算是休斯顿中餐的一个标杆了。采用健康食材、不断研发新菜和扩张快让“双椒”从众多中餐馆中脱颖而出。最近，休斯顿纪事报（Houston Chronicle）的美食评论家Alison Cook评选出了休斯顿2019年度100佳年度餐厅，双椒第四次入选。 在三年半内开了六家分店后，双椒大手笔又签下了两个新址：第七家分店位于休斯顿著名的购物区Galleria Mall内的Food Court，预计2020年情人节前后开张；第八家店位于Post Oak地区，预计2020年春假前后开张。届时，住在周边地区的居民有口福啦！。。。
魅力休斯顿网
Nov 8, 2019
休斯顿2019年度100佳餐厅出炉，5家中餐馆上榜！
近日，休斯顿纪事报（Houston Chronicle）的美食评论家Alison Cook评选出了休斯顿2019年度100佳年度餐厅，可谓是本市餐饮界的风向标，引人瞩目。Alison Cook曾两次赢得James Beard基金会餐馆评论奖，荣获过M.F.K. Fisher卓越写作奖，14年来，一直为休斯顿纪事报撰写餐馆评论，探访各类用餐场所。为了作出评价，Cook在过去一年里“暗访”了371家餐馆，平均每天至少一家。 有5家中餐馆入榜休斯顿100佳年度餐厅。双椒、小熊川菜、唐茶苑、金山、海港海鲜馆进入了Top 100. 双椒创始人四川人杨玉楠的餐馆与其他同行的区别是他们热衷于使用有机的健康食材。她的家常番茄炒蛋中用的是有机鸡蛋，在充满从家乡进口的红辣椒和有机九叶四川花椒的菜单上，这道菜是像家一样的缓冲点。农场养育的黑猪肉(Berkshire），来自Spring Mountain地区的无激素无抗生素的鸡肉，还有安格斯牛肉，都是他们选用的食材。
魅力休斯顿网
Jul 11, 2019
夫妻肺片变身“史密斯夫妇”，让地道川味爆红休斯顿！
在美国休斯敦有一家连锁川菜馆，店里推出了一道叫做“史密斯夫妇”的川味凉菜，非常受食客的喜爱，光听名字您能猜到这究竟是一道什么菜吗？ 双椒餐馆的创始人叫杨钰楠，来自中国重庆。她告诉我们，其实这史密斯夫妇就是川菜里的夫妻肺片，这道菜在中国有一个传说，最早是一对成都夫妇走街串巷卖凉拌肺片，由于选用牛肉铺的边角料做食材，价格便宜、味道好，销量很好，久而久之人们就将这种凉拌牛杂称为“夫妻肺片”。
Jun 8, 2019
从美国科研人员到餐饮集团老板，这条跨界之路是如何炼成的？
上周四5月30日晚，休斯顿四位知名餐饮行业的负责人受邀到市中心的Prohibition Theatre分享了他们扩张餐厅的经验和心得。他们分别是：三家美食广场的负责人Anh Mai、Berg Hospitality集团创始人Benjamin Berg、六家餐馆和酒吧负责人Ken Bridge以及双椒集团创始人杨玉楠女士。 此次活动由NextSeed主办。这是一家总部位于休斯顿的金融科技公司，旨在创建一个新的投资市场，将主要商业区里的小企业与希望直接投资于当地企业的个人连结起来。通过NextSeed，蓬勃发展的本地企业可以在展示业务的同时在线筹集资金，任何人都可以投资这些产品，来创造一个与股票市场脱钩的可持续替代资产类别。
休斯顿在线
May 20, 2019
双椒杨玉楠受邀主讲：从独立餐厅到餐馆群(From Standalone to Restaurant Group)
世界名人网讯 餐饮指南休斯敦美食巡礼本周收到通知，由“下一个种子(NextSeed)”组织的重头戏“从独立餐厅到餐馆群(From Standalone to Restaurant Group)”将于2019年5月30日晚在Prohibition Theatre(1008 Prairie Street, Houston, TX 77002)举行。多家媒体评选为第一的双椒连锁餐厅董事长杨玉楠博士将受邀作为嘉宾主讲人介绍双椒三年六家餐厅的成功经验。本次活动门票可以在eventbrite预售，$15美元，有兴趣的朋友们赶紧购票，不要错过。
世界名人网
May 12, 2019
温暖从容|来自四位女神妈妈的节日分享
两个孩子的母亲Yunan，在创立Pepper Twins双椒中国料理店之前，从事了15年的医学研究。“如果不是因为在怀孕的过程中发现了血小板减低的问题，可能至今我还会坚持当初的理想，做一名科研临床并行的临床医生。但是为了孩子，我选择放弃自己的初衷，转行。“如今，由她主理的双椒中国料理店成为了中外友人在休斯顿最爱去的中餐厅。
Fairy Hill
Apr 18, 2019
双椒荣登《市书》CityBook杂志 主流最爱火辣辣
最新一期的休斯敦主流杂志市书CityBook撰文介绍双椒连锁川菜馆。标题是“火辣Fire and Spice”，作者是爱德华纳沃卡，照片摄影师为Shannon O’Hara。作者指出，基于她的医学研究背景和四川文化，移民创建的双椒餐厅帝国正在快速增长！
Mar 25, 2019
双椒小龙虾节(Pepper Twin Crawfish Festival)登场！多重优惠 直送府邸
世界名人网讯 刚刚评选为2019休斯敦最好的中餐厅，双椒日前正式推出小龙虾节(Pepper Twin Crawfish Festival)！领风气之先，适合您的口味，麻辣(Spicy Sichuan)/蒜香(Garlic Butter)/鱼香(Sweet And Sour)小龙虾，正宗川味，大厨秘制配方料理，独家为您呈现最正宗的家乡美味。 同时集方便与便捷于一身，老饕们大呼过瘾死了！
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Mar 25, 2019
休斯顿川菜界的“扛把子”非它莫属! 限时福利吃小龙虾就送Mochidoki冰激凌!
正经的川菜，讲究的不只是一味辣，更讲究的是那股子鲜辣与其他食材搭配的适宜得当。双椒的菜，就算隔着屏幕都能闻到香气！连开6家分店，就算没吃过你也知道这里绝不一般！
Mar 19, 2019
刷爆朋友圈的小龙虾在这里！
双椒本周又新进货源！小龙虾买5磅送1磅！！ 另外【活动期间双椒Memorial city center 堂吃客户 只要说出暗号：吃货联盟推荐，即可享受2磅小龙虾赠送Mochikoki冰淇淋一枚，每多订购1磅多赠送1枚冰淇淋哦 餐厅地址：799 Town and Country Blvd, Suite 200, Houston, TX, 77024】
吃货联盟
Feb 08, 2019
“双椒”被评为休斯顿最佳中餐馆，能源走廊6号店即将正式开业！
最近，休斯顿主流媒体HoustonPress在年度最佳评选中（Best of Houston®），把双椒列为休斯顿2019年度最佳中餐馆（2019: Best Chinese Restaurant）。在春节前夕，双椒还作为海外优秀中餐馆的代表，接受了CCTV的采访，节目将于近期在央视播出。
Feb 08, 2019
最佳休斯顿2019最佳中餐厅出炉：双椒(River Oaks)
世界名人网讯 2019年1月29日凌晨4时整，休斯敦美国主流最有影响力的报纸之一——休斯敦新闻报(Houston Press)郑重宣布：2019休斯敦最佳中餐厅得主为双椒(River Oaks)。 休斯敦新闻报(Houston Press)在大休斯敦地区数千家中餐馆里，每年只选出一家最佳中餐厅。双椒获此殊荣，代表着双椒无论在菜色、食材、管理、服务等诸多方面均获得了一致的好评和成就。能把人们从全美最大的中国城布满美食的餐厅里拉向市中心，双椒所追求的最正宗的充满乡土气息的中餐就真实地呈现在世人的眼前。喜欢美食的朋友们，走起！我们一起相约，下一顿就在双椒见！不见不散！
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Jan 22, 2019
新店开张！新菜出炉
双椒Memorial City Center六号店迎来了Soft Opening！ 具体餐馆信息如下： 地址：799 Town and Country Blvd, Suite 200, Houston, TX, 77024Raw Sushi 隔壁，二楼电话：832-831-2163停车：city center有两个停车楼，一个studio movie grill 一个 lifetime fitness。一楼基本付费，二楼基本办公，三楼以上免费。高峰时期别找一楼二楼了，直接往三楼开，或者就停一楼付个钱。Queensbury Ln南面一片也是免费停车。
Aug 22, 2018
火锅烧烤牛肉面，你想念的国内美食都在这儿 | 休斯顿中餐全攻略
俘获休斯顿老美的川菜,在休斯顿地区得奖无数，着实有不小的名气。虽然备受老美赞誉，但不是那种传统意义上难吃的“美式中餐”。而是有地道川菜的底子，且经过一系列跟创新和菜系间的融合，变得非常适合大众的口味。加上温暖舒适的店内布置和贴心的服务，是留学生们公认的“暖心食堂”。
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Jun 17, 2018
科学家转行开川菜馆靠谱吗？她的夫妻肺片顾客排队来吃 餐馆登美食杂志榜首
“我的前半生都贡献给了热爱的科研事业，既然身体不能再支持我从事科研，那我就把另一个爱好当事业吧。”
– 杨钰楠
杨钰楠，从事医学研究11年，在中国完成博士学位后赴美继续攻读博士后。来美国第二年就获得由国防部提供的肿瘤研究资金，这个国防部研究经费的获得率仅有2.7%。在威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校博士后的第二年，杨钰楠就升为助理科学家。作为川妹子，杨钰楠喜欢做菜、喜欢美食，特别享受给家人烹饪的感觉。她说，做饭是她科研结束后的娱乐活动。。。。
美国中文网
Jun 12, 2018
Top 1-Pepper Twins 双椒 “舌尖上的美国” （2017年）
在美国休斯顿，有一家非常知名的正宗川菜馆。餐馆提供的都是原汁原味、无添加、绿色有机健康食材和食物，连川菜需要的红油都是自己用各种原材料制作而成。它就是双椒川菜馆。
2017年5月份，双椒参加了由Asia Star TV联合多家知名媒体举办的大型美食评选节目——“舌尖上的美国”，最终获得了年度第一名的好成绩!
AsiaStarTVApr 14, 2018
亚洲协会亚洲美食之旅：双椒杨玉楠教你做饺子
2018年4月14日中午11时至12时30分，休斯敦亚洲协会德州分会教育中心，一场别开生面的亚洲美食之旅(Food Tours of Asia)系列活动双椒杨玉楠教您包饺子(Dumpling Making with Yunan Yang of Pepper Twins)正在这里举行。
世界名人网讯Dec 22, 2017
这也许是大休斯顿地区最好吃最有情怀的中餐馆
休斯顿”双椒”餐馆（Pepper Twins）有众多粉丝，我也算是其中之一，吃遍了她家的全部四家店River Oaks店、Montrose店、Kirby店、Katy店。每个分店各有所长，不过我更偏爱Katy店，因为好吃还份量大，吃起来特别痛快，有些菜式还是别家没有的。
魅力休斯顿网Sep 29, 2017
双椒Pepper Twins味美人美心更美！用心做菜！有情有义！
大家还记的上半年休斯顿主打有机餐食的Pepper Twins双椒川菜馆在美国《GQ》杂志发布了餐饮品赏大师Brett Martin最新出炉的“美国2017餐饮排行榜”，Pepper Twins的招牌凉菜“夫妻肺片”荣登榜首，被评选为“年度开胃菜”（Appetizer of the Year）。当时可是红遍朋友圈和各大报纸啊！厉害了我的猴子屯的川菜馆！
美国同城网Sep 28, 2017
慷慨和善良 — 記休斯頓雙椒集團楊玉楠董事長在哈維颶風中的愛心表現
剛剛過去不久的哈維颶風摧毀了休斯敦許多地方，颶風和洪水肆虐之處滿目蒼夷，但是天災無情人有情，關鍵時刻華人社區互幫互助，這一次風災湧現出了不少華人英雄，其中，休斯頓雙椒集團楊玉楠董事長於洪災最嚴重的 8月27日三次開著自己的SUV冒險挺近受災同胞子林的家，並堅持不懈於第二天早晨8.28日6點救出子林全家。自己的車因為冒險通過洪水淹過的輔路，引擎燈以及拉響警報。楊玉楠家住梨城，聽說了休斯敦城裏的洪水新聞之後，第一時間開著車一次又一次尋找去往休斯敦城區的路，經過一天的不懈努力，汽車油也快耗盡的時候趕到城裏緊急投入到各種救災賑災活動中去。
今日美國新聞網May 26, 2017
夫妻肺片获评2017年美国“年度开胃菜”，它的译名“史密斯夫妇”，你觉得贴切吗？
近日，美国《GQ》杂志发布了餐饮品赏大师Brett Martin最新出炉的“美国2017餐饮排行榜”，位于休斯敦的Pepper Twins双椒川菜馆的招牌凉菜“夫妻肺片”荣登榜首，被评选为“年度开胃菜”（Appetizer of the Year）。
中国日报Apr 21, 2017
养生为主题 餐饮领风气 双椒川菜名列GQ杂志2017年度之最——三号店即将开幕
国际著名杂志《GQ》(中文译为智族)发布了餐饮品赏大师Brett Martin最新出炉的美国2017餐饮排行榜，休斯敦Pepper Twins双椒川菜的头台冷餐“夫妻肺片”(Mr. and Mrs. Smith)荣登榜首，被选为年度头台(Appetizer of the Year) 2017年度之最。Pepper Twins继在休斯敦上流社区River Oaks、Montrose两家成功之后，第三家以养生系列为主打的Pepper Twins双椒Kirby店也即将开幕，欢迎旧雨新知前往品赏。
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