a guide to 'traveleating'
Welcome to The Larder, where you’ll find my research into the origins and background of certain foods and ingredients, particularly Chinese ones.
What is Tofu or Bean Curd?
What is Thousand Year Old Egg?
What are Chinese Dried Scallops?
What is XO Sauce?
What’s In My Chinese Kitchen?
8 Useful Japanese Ingredients
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All the recipes on World Foodie Guide are listed here by cuisine.
Most of the recipes are for simple, home-cooked food using fresh ingredients. At home, we cook each meal from scratch, and it’s just as quick to do this as heating up a ready meal in the oven. It’s also much healthier [...]
WHO:
Based in London. Born in England to Hong Kong Chinese parents. Grew up in Germany. Lived in Beijing & New York. Indulges in ‘traveleating‘. Married to a vegetarian. Lives as a carnivore. Works as a film examiner at the British Board of Film Classification.
Shortlisted for the Guild of Food Writers 2009 New Media Award, as [...]
Posted in cookery, cooking, dining out, food, food & travel, recipe, restaurant review, restaurants, travel, traveleating on Dec 10th, 2009
I decided on my last day in Japan to retire from food blogging. I’ve been blogging intensively for over two years and have reached the point where I’m mentally very tired and would like to do something different. I have loved writing about food, sharing my eating experiences and most of all learning from readers, [...]
Posted in Japan, Japanese, Tokyo, cookery, cooking, food, food & travel, noodles, travel, travel tips, traveleating, vegetarian on Nov 23rd, 2009
This short trip from Tokyo to Yamanouchi town in Nagano prefecture, the Japan Alps was the first section of the two week trip to Japan that I planned. The husband had a yearning to see the Jigokudani snow monkeys (wild Japanese macaques) that keep warm in the freezing winter months by bathing in their own [...]
The charming and erudite Helen Yuet Ling Pang, whose blog I already follow and love, and the (Guild of Food Writers) judges described as ‘great fun to read and hard to leave’
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