Posted in Beijing, China, Chinese, dining out, dumplings, food, restaurant review, restaurants, Shanghai, Taipei, Taiwan, travel, traveleating, vegetarian on Nov 12th, 2008
This is the eleventh 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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Posted in China, Chinese, dining out, food, Hong Kong, restaurant review, restaurants, Shanghai, travel, traveleating, vegetarian on Oct 29th, 2008
This is the fifth 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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Posted in bakery, cafe, Cantonese, China, Chinese, cooking, dim sum, dining out, food, Hong Kong, restaurant review, restaurants, Shanghai, Sichuan, traveleating, vegetarian on Sep 5th, 2008
[NB All Postcards from my China trip can be found under Restaurant Reviews - China, and the entire set of food photos on Flickr. A summary of my recommendations AFTER the trip can be found at A Short Guide To Eating In Hong Kong, Macau & Beijing. And all food photos have been subsequently added [...]
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Posted in China, Chinese, food, Shanghai, traveleating on Feb 23rd, 2008
This is a somewhat unusual, even unique, post for World Foodie Guide. I’ve been reading Qiu Xiaolong‘s Inspector Chen crime novel series, set in 1990s Shanghai. My husband bought me one of the books for Christmas and I couldn’t put it down. Then I bought all the others. I emailed Professor Qiu to tell him [...]
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I’m writing this as a short companion piece to my post on How To Eat Xiao Long Bao or Shanghai Dumplings. If you’re not already a die-hard fan of xiao long bao, you’ll be converted once you’ve tried them. Then you’ll be on the never-ending quest to find the perfect xiao long bao… Xiao long [...]
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