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New Cookbook Brings Yunnan’s Varied Cuisine to the Table
A new cookbook spotlighting cuisine from this diverse southwestern province aims to help preserve their culinary traditions. In addition to recipes, the book offers vignettes from daily life — from a...
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Something Fishy - Yuxiang Eggplant Cooking Lesson
Learn how to make one of the most beloved dishes of the Chinese cuisine - Yu Xiang Qie Zi. It will take you less than six minutes and you learn it straight from the source - Chinese cooking lesson...
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Beijing Bliss: Two Schmucks and a Duck
I forgot to mention that Monica is one of the best food writers in the world! A few weeks ago we had a date night where we went to an excellent Beijing duck restaurant. This article is all about the...
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Eggplant: Nowhere does it better than China
Chinese food has got to be up there with the best food in the world, and there is nowhere in the world that produces a dish as delicious as the humble eggplant. Eggplant, also known as an Aubergine in...
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Suki’s clams (recipe excerpted from 'The Taste of Old Hong Kong')
That’s how we met Suki who churned alongside offering a variety of stir-fried seafood. His specialty—a favorite of typhoon shelter regulars—was clams. It’s a rare restaurateur who will share a recipe,...
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The Asian Flush
You haven’t quite finished that glass of red wine, but hot blood is already erupting in odd splotches on your face, your heart is starting to throb in fits and starts, and you feel like your head is...
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Piquant Pork and Refreshing Rice
A guide to the delicate preparation of fenzhengrou, a dish comparable to Shanghai beauties and loved by legendary writer Eileen Chang. If you are a carnivore, the dish fenzhengrou is just as alluring...
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How To: Be Vegetarian In Beijing
Bottom line: It isn’t going to be easy. It’s possible, but perhaps not in the way it once was. Forget the days of sending food back to the kitchen because your vegetarian dish isn’t meat-free as...
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Perk Up: Specialty Coffee In China
Coffee in Beijing is nothing new. Ever since China started opening up in the late ’70s, aspects of Western culture have trickled constantly into the country. An iconic 1981 black-and-white photo of a...
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Only in China: 6 Weird Chip Flavors
The holiday season has ended, and surprise, you’re broke! And when the chips are down, what better budget snack to drown your sorrows with than, well, chips? To kick off the year, we’re wrangling...
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Recipe: Yunnanese mint and pomelo salad
This recipe is a classic Xishuangbanna salad, from a region of Yunnan where pomelos are sweet and mint plentiful. Vary the proportions of aromatic mint and chili to taste. The Dai people eat pomelo...
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Laba Porridge: Not Your Average Zhou
Amidst the gluttony-inducing holiday season, labazhou (腊八粥) is a simple, humble dish that keeps you connected to tradition and the true holiday spirit. Laba refers to the Laba Festival, which falls on...
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7 Chinese Foods To Remind You Of Back Home
China is well-known for its many colorful dishes. You know, the types of Chinese foods like pigs organs, stinky tofu, snake blood and other “delicacies” your local friends enjoy challenging foreigners...
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McDonald's Celebrates in China With Year of Fortune and Year of Luck Burgers
Not able to try McDonald's special burgers in China for the Chinese New Year? Here's a review to see what you're missing. more »Food & Drinkfast foodlocalizationspring festivalholidaysburgerstoo...
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Recipe: Yunnan ham with broad beans and goat cheese
This fresh dish, full of Yunnan flavors, pairs perfectly with the stunningly gorgeous weather currently gracing much of the province. It features two ingredients Yunnanese people proudly call their own...
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