I'm wokking, yes indeed

This article tells you everything you might want to know about buying and caring for woks.
Wok hay is what happens when excellent ingredients -- like ginger, noodles, shrimp, walnuts or Chinese chives -- meet a wok crackling with heat. It is both a taste and aroma and something else, too, a lively freshness that prickles your nose and makes you impatient for that first taste, like the smell of steak just off the grill or a tomato right off the vine in August. Food with wok hay tastes intensely of itself. -The Well-Tempered Wok by Julia Moskin