My first guest blogger is fellow foodie and über-photographer Kang from LondonEater, who kindly agreed to write about his recent (and first) gastrotrip to Taipei, Taiwan. When I visited Taipei, I fell in love with the food, but I’ve written very little about my visit, as I wasn’t blogging back then. Taipei is also on [...]
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Posted in Chinese, dim sum, dining out, dumplings, food, London, restaurant review, restaurants, Taiwan, Taiwanese, traveleating on Jun 19th, 2009
[UPDATE - October 2009: I've returned to Leong's Legend for dim sum and it's turning into a reliable Chinatown dim sum spot for me. Apart from more xiao long bao (such good value and very soupy), I again ordered the Taiwan mini kebab with pork. It's very filling and most delicious. The pork belly rice [...]
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Posted in Beijing, China, Chinese, dining out, food, London, restaurant review, restaurants, Taipei, Taiwan, Taiwanese, traveleating on Jan 6th, 2009
[UPDATE: June 2009 - I went for dim sum at Leong's Legend and had a much better experience. You can read about it here.] ****************************** Background: Leong’s Legend in London’s Chinatown (a second branch has just opened around the corner) has bounced on and off my restaurant wishlist ever since I first started reading mixed [...]
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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 Beijing, China, Chinese, dining out, food, restaurant review, restaurants, Taiwan, Taiwanese, travel, traveleating, vegetarian on Nov 6th, 2008
This is the eighth 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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