a guide to 'traveleating'
Posted in Cantonese, Chinese, dim sum, dining out, food, London, restaurant review, restaurants, traveleating on Aug 27th, 2009
Background: If you’ve been reading my blog or following my tweets for a while, you may know that I’m a huge fan of dim sum and that one of my favourite restaurants in London for dim sum is Pearl Liang (the others being Yauatcha and Yum Cha). As my last dim sum post on Pearl [...]
Posted in Cantonese, China, Chinese, cookery, cooking, dumplings, food, Hong Kong, noodles, recipe, traveleating on Jul 10th, 2009
When I was researching restaurants to visit in Hong Kong last year, I came across passionate debates on Chowhound and other forums on where to eat the best Cantonese wonton noodles, focusing on crucial details such as the size of the wonton, the silkiness of the skin, the taste and texture of the filling, and [...]
Posted in Cantonese, Chinese, cookery, cooking, dim sum, England, food, recipe on Jun 16th, 2009
Although I cook Chinese food at home and I know more or less how to combine various ingredients and achieve the flavours that I want, I’ve always regretted not learning more from my mother when I was younger. In order to build up my confidence, I’ve been planning to attend a Chinese cookery class for [...]
Posted in Cantonese, Chinese, dim sum, dining out, food, London, restaurant review, restaurants, traveleating on May 14th, 2009
Background: As part of my goal to update last year’s post Where To Eat Dim Sum In London, I’ve created a shortlist of dim sum restaurants to revisit as well as to visit for the first time. Over the last six weeks, I’ve managed to eat at Golden Palace and Peninsula and return to one [...]
Posted in Cantonese, Chinese, cookery, cooking, food, Hong Kong, recipe, traveleating on Apr 16th, 2009
I’ve always loved my mother’s congee. She makes it very simply, mostly with pork or chicken and shreds of dried scallop. I also had congee for breakfast every day on my recent trip to Hong Kong, when I discovered it was one of the many breakfast options at my excellent hotel. So when I bought [...]
