Posted in afternoon tea, Alan Yau, Chinese, dim sum, dining out, food, London, Michelin star, restaurant review, restaurants, traveleating, vegetarian on May 26th, 2009
Background: Regular readers will know that I adore dim sum! I’m currently updating last year’s post Where To Eat Dim Sum In London, and have created a shortlist of dim sum restaurants to revisit as well as to visit for the first time. Having recently ticked a few new ones off the list – Yum [...]
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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 [...]
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Posted in China, Chinese, dining out, dumplings, food, Henan, London, noodles, restaurant review, restaurants, Shaanxi, Sichuan, 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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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