a guide to 'traveleating'
Posted in Japanese, cookery, food, noodles, recipe, traveleating on May 17th, 2009
Here’s a really simple recipe for zaru soba, cold Japanese soba or buckwheat noodles served with a soy-based dipping sauce. This isn’t for making soba noodles from scratch (although we do have buckwheat flour to make the flour blend!), but for preparing the dipping sauce. Although you can buy the dipping sauce in bottles, it’s [...]
Posted in London, Michelin star, Sichuan, cookery, cooking, dim sum, dining out, food, noodles, recipe, restaurant review, restaurants, traveleating on Apr 2nd, 2009
The monthly summary for March.
A bout of food poisoning meant having to miss out on a few planned events, but it was still a busy month revolving around food. I volunteered in the hectic kitchen of The Underground Restaurant, which was a real eye-opener. If you haven’t visited yet, I would recommend making a booking [...]
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 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 [...]
Posted in Chinese, London, dining out, food, noodles, restaurant review, restaurants, traveleating on Feb 25th, 2008
Inn Noodle (now called Noodle Oodle) is on the most horrible stretch of Oxford Street, between Tottenham Court Road tube station and Soho Street. This section is hellish to walk through at any time of the day, as it’s absolutely packed with people going in all directions. So when I read on Chowhound that Inn [...]
