a guide to 'traveleating'
Posted in Cantonese, China, Chinese, cookery, cooking, dumplings, food, Hong Kong, 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 Beijing, China, Chinese, cookery, cooking, food, Hong Kong, recipe, Taiwanese, traveleating, vegetarian on Mar 24th, 2009
On our traveleating trip to Hong Kong, Macau and Beijing last October, I was reminded of how much I enjoy the unique taste of thousand year old egg (if you don’t know what thousand year old egg is, it’s all explained in this earlier post). I had it first at Yung Kee in Hong Kong, [...]
Posted in Cantonese, China, Chinese, dim sum, dining out, food, food & travel, Hong Kong, restaurants, traveleating on Mar 13th, 2009
I haven’t had any dim sum since I was in Hong Kong a few months ago. I think I ate so much Chinese food during those two and a half weeks in Hong Kong and Beijing that I thought I’d take a prolonged break. But now I’m starting to crave dim sum again, and am [...]
Posted in Beijing, China, Chinese, cookery, cooking, dining out, food, food & travel, Hong Kong, restaurant review, restaurants, traveleating on Dec 3rd, 2008
I’ve wanted for ages to write about Chinese thousand year old egg, also known as century egg or preserved egg (pei dan in Cantonese, pi dan in Mandarin, literally ‘skin/leather egg’), but until my recent trip to China, I had no photos. Despite the rather off-putting name, they’re not really a thousand years old. Duck [...]
Posted in Alan Yau, Australian, bakery, Beijing, cafe, China, Chinese, cookery, cooking, dining out, England, fish and chips, food, Hong Kong, Italian, London, Macau, recipe, restaurant review, restaurants, traveleating, vegetarian on Nov 30th, 2008
The monthly summary for November… The first half of the month was spent frantically trying to finish the remainder of the Postcards from China. Each day of the China trip has finally been written up as Postcards, outlining not only our eating experiences, but also travel tips, noteworthy places to visit and interesting shops we [...]
