a guide to 'traveleating'
Posted in food on Oct 26th, 2009
Here are the Chinese recipes on World Foodie Guide. They’re mostly for simple, home-cooked Cantonese food (with a couple of exceptions), rather than dishes you would find in restaurants. Some are from my mother of course, while others are from Chinese friends. A few are mine, including the one on steamed and [...]
Posted in Cantonese, Chinese, London, dim sum, dining out, food, restaurant review, restaurants, traveleating on Aug 27th, 2009
Background:
If you’ve been reading my blog or following my tweets for a while, you may know that I’m a huge fan of dim sum and that one of my favourite restaurants in London for dim sum is Pearl Liang (the others being Yauatcha and Yum Cha). As my last dim sum post on Pearl Liang [...]
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 [...]
Posted in Cantonese, Chinese, London, dim sum, dining out, food, restaurant review, restaurants, traveleating on May 14th, 2009
Background:
As part of my goal to update last year’s post Where To Eat Dim Sum In London, I’ve created a shortlist of dim sum restaurants to revisit as well as to visit for the first time. Over the last six weeks, I’ve managed to eat at Golden Palace and Peninsula and return to one of [...]
Posted in Cantonese, Chinese, Hong Kong, cookery, cooking, food, recipe, traveleating on Apr 16th, 2009
I’ve always loved my mother’s congee. She makes it very simply, mostly with pork or chicken and shreds of dried scallop. I also had congee for breakfast every day on my recent trip to Hong Kong, when I discovered it was one of the many breakfast options at my excellent hotel. So when I bought [...]
