a guide to 'traveleating'
Posted in Beijing, China, Chinese, cookery, cooking, food, noodles, recipe, traveleating, vegetarian on May 23rd, 2009
Whenever the weather becomes warmer, I feel like eating lighter and more refreshing dishes. After making zaru soba and sampling two delicious cold appetisers (five-spiced beef salad and spicy potato slivers) at Ba Shan last week, I was in the mood for more. So I turned to Ken Hom’s recipe for a street snack, Chinese [...]
Posted in Beijing, China, Chinese, cookery, cooking, food, Hong Kong, recipe, Taiwanese, traveleating, vegetarian on Mar 24th, 2009
On our traveleating trip to Hong Kong, Macau and Beijing last October, I was reminded of how much I enjoy the unique taste of thousand year old egg (if you don’t know what thousand year old egg is, it’s all explained in this earlier post). I had it first at Yung Kee in Hong Kong, [...]
Posted in Beijing, China, Chinese, dining out, food, food & travel, restaurant review, restaurants, traveleating on Feb 22nd, 2009
Regular readers will know that I spent weeks and months meticulously planning my foodie trip last October to Hong Kong, Macau and Beijing (all thirteen Postcards from China are archived here). That’s when I first came across Beijing-based restaurant writer Eileen Wen Mooney, whose Guardian article The Top 10 Places To Eat I found extremely [...]
Posted in Beijing, China, Chinese, cookery, cooking, dumplings, food, recipe, traveleating on Jan 24th, 2009
Gong Hei Fat Choi! Chinese New Year is just round the corner and everyone seems to be busy planning and preparing food to celebrate this special occasion. Rather than invent something new, I thought I’d re-introduce three of the most popular posts on World Foodie Guide, seeing as so many people are searching for Chinese [...]
Posted in Beijing, China, Chinese, dining out, food, London, restaurant review, restaurants, Taipei, Taiwan, Taiwanese, traveleating on Jan 6th, 2009
[UPDATE: June 2009 - I went for dim sum at Leong's Legend and had a much better experience. You can read about it here.] ****************************** Background: Leong’s Legend in London’s Chinatown (a second branch has just opened around the corner) has bounced on and off my restaurant wishlist ever since I first started reading mixed [...]
