Posted in Japan, Japanese, Kyoto, dining out, food, food & travel, noodles, restaurant review, restaurants, sushi, travel, travel tips, traveleating, vegetarian on Nov 29th, 2009
After travelling to see the Jigokudani snow monkeys (see Snow Monkeys and Soba Noodles) in the Japan Alps, we returned to Yokohama to repack our bags before leaving early the next morning for Kyoto, Japan’s old imperial capital.
Planning the three days was harder than I thought. I had to drop many of the items on [...]
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Posted in Japan, Japanese, Tokyo, cookery, cooking, food, food & travel, noodles, travel, travel tips, traveleating, vegetarian on Nov 23rd, 2009
This short trip from Tokyo to Yamanouchi town in Nagano prefecture, the Japan Alps was the first section of the two week trip to Japan that I planned. The husband had a yearning to see the Jigokudani snow monkeys (wild Japanese macaques) that keep warm in the freezing winter months by bathing in their own [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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