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 cold [...]
Posted in China, Chinese, Henan, London, Shaanxi, Sichuan, dining out, dumplings, food, noodles, restaurant review, restaurants, traveleating, vegetarian on May 20th, 2009
Background:
Ba Shan, youngest sibling of Bar Shu and Baozi Inn, specialises in xiao chi, literally ’small eats’, from the provinces of Sichuan, Henan and Shaanxi. I’m no expert on the food of any of these regions, but I do love xiao chi – small dishes of cold meats and salads, dumplings and noodles, flatbreads and [...]
Posted in Beijing, China, Chinese, Hong Kong, Taiwanese, cookery, cooking, food, recipe, 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 China, Chinese, Sichuan, cookery, cooking, food, noodles, recipe, traveleating, vegetarian on Mar 19th, 2009
Reading Eileen Wen Mooney’s Beijing Eats a short while ago inspired me to start cooking more Chinese food. I chose to start with dan dan mian, a Sichuan snack dish or ‘xiao chi‘ (small eats) of ‘noodles dressed in a mixture of sesame paste and peanut sauce with a little chilli oil’. According to Eileen, [...]
Posted in Cantonese, China, Chinese, Hong Kong, dim sum, dining out, food, food & travel, restaurants, traveleating on Mar 13th, 2009
I haven’t had any dim sum since I was in Hong Kong a few months ago. I think I ate so much Chinese food during those two and a half weeks in Hong Kong and Beijing that I thought I’d take a prolonged break. But now I’m starting to crave dim sum again, and am [...]
