a guide to 'traveleating'
Posted in Cantonese, Chinese, London, dim sum, dining out, food, 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 Liang [...]
Posted in China, Chinese, Hunan, Sichuan, cookery, cookery books, cooking, food, food & travel, recipe, traveleating on Aug 14th, 2009
My first encounter with food writer Fuchsia Dunlop was at a British Museum talk on Chinese food last year. I didn’t stay behind to chat with her, but was impressed with her opinions on the importance of food in Chinese culture. We were briefly introduced at a Ferran Adrià talk last November, and more recently [...]
Posted in Chinese, cookery, cooking, food, recipe, traveleating, vegetarian on Aug 2nd, 2009
Stir-fried Chinese morning glory with fermented bean curd is one of my all time favourite dishes. I’ve been enjoying it ever since I was a young teenager, regularly ordering it in Cantonese restaurants. Strangely enough, my mother never made it at home, even though there was usually a jar of fermented bean curd sitting in [...]
Posted in Chinese, London, dim sum, dining out, dumplings, food, restaurant review, restaurants, traveleating on Jul 13th, 2009
Background:
I really wanted to like Min Jiang because I’m always on the lookout for excellent Chinese restaurants in London, particularly for dim sum. Ever since the Singaporean Chinese restaurant group of two opened a sister restaurant in London, I’ve contemplated eating there. Min Jiang specialises in Beijing kaoya (Beijing roast duck), which I also [...]
Posted in Cantonese, China, Chinese, Hong Kong, cookery, cooking, dumplings, food, 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 [...]
