Posted in Beijing, China, Chinese, Hong Kong, cookery, cooking, dining out, food, food & travel, restaurant review, restaurants, traveleating on Dec 3rd, 2008
I’ve wanted for ages to write about Chinese thousand year old egg, also known as century egg or preserved egg (pei dan in Cantonese, pi dan in Mandarin, literally ’skin/leather egg’), but until my recent trip to China, I had no photos. Despite the rather off-putting name, they’re not really a thousand years old. Duck [...]
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Posted in Alan Yau, Australian, Beijing, China, Chinese, England, Hong Kong, Italian, London, Macau, bakery, cafe, cookery, cooking, dining out, fish and chips, food, recipe, restaurant review, restaurants, traveleating, vegetarian on Nov 30th, 2008
The monthly summary for November…
The first half of the month was spent frantically trying to finish the remainder of the Postcards from China. Each day of the China trip has finally been written up as Postcards, outlining not only our eating experiences, but also travel tips, noteworthy places to visit and interesting shops we came [...]
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Posted in Beijing, Cantonese, China, Chinese, Hakka, Hong Kong, Macau, Portuguese, Taiwanese, Yunnan, bakery, cafe, dim sum, diner, dining out, food, food etiquette, restaurant review, restaurants, travel, traveleating, vegetarian on Nov 19th, 2008
After returning from our 16 day traveleating trip to Hong Kong, Macau and Beijing, I wrote a series of thirteen ‘Postcards’, filed under Restaurant Reviews – China. The Postcards are long, but contain detailed information about food, sightseeing and travel tips. If you want to just browse through food photos, click here for the entire [...]
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Posted in Cantonese, China, Chinese, Chiu Chow, Hong Kong, dining out, food, restaurant review, restaurants, travel, traveleating, vegetarian on Nov 16th, 2008
This is the thirteenth and last in a series of Postcards from the recent Hong Kong, Macau and Beijing traveleating trip. Rather than writing up each food experience in separate posts, which would have taken me up to Christmas, I thought it would be more fun to outline the trip in diary form, to include [...]
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Posted in Beijing, Cantonese, China, Chinese, Hong Kong, diner, dining out, food, noodles, restaurant review, restaurants, travel, traveleating, vegetarian on Nov 14th, 2008
This is the twelth in a series of Postcards from the recent Hong Kong, Macau and Beijing traveleating trip. Rather than writing up each food experience in separate posts, which would have taken me up to Christmas, I thought it would be more fun to outline the trip in diary form, to include travel and [...]
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