Other threatened creatures that find their way, legally and illegally, into Chinese cooking pots could also be spared.
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Chinese cooking usually blackens the kitchen with soot and grease and is the domain of an ayi, or household helper, who cooks for the family.
But other dairy products, such as butter are still not as popular - people really hardly ever cook with it - and it's not used in Chinese cooking.
With a menu built mainly around the traditional soft, fluffy bao, a staple of real-deal Chinese cooking, BaoHaus does the most it can with what, at first glance, seem to be modest goals: sandwiches, but with a twist, rice and noodle bowls, and in-house made drinks.
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Though Mr. Yoon, 42, is often identified as a Korean-American chef along with peers David Chang and Roy Choi, he'll be cooking Chinese and Southeast Asian food, heavy on what he calls his "pet ingredient": Sichuan peppercorns.
Medieval Chinese emperors were buried with their horses, soldiers, cooking pots and food to speed them on their way.
Cheng, naturally, is a serial visitor to the cooking section, snapping up books in both English and Chinese.
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When cooking for guests, Lee doesn't represent any particular Chinese region, shuns the use of monosodium glutamate and keeps deep fried dishes to a minimum.
Chinese consumers burn about three million tons of peanut oil, considered a high-end cooking oil, exceeding the country's output of 2.3 million tons.
But if the Chinese came to us and said, 'Look, here's what we have cooking, ' I'm not going to tell you I'm shutting the door today to something that's logical and might have a chance of success.
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