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, 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 [...]
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 [...]
Posted in cookery, food, Japanese, noodles, recipe, traveleating on May 17th, 2009
Here’s a really simple recipe for zaru soba, cold Japanese soba or buckwheat noodles served with a soy-based dipping sauce. This isn’t for making soba noodles from scratch (although we do have buckwheat flour to make the flour blend!), but for preparing the dipping sauce. Although you can buy the dipping sauce in bottles, it’s [...]
Posted in Alan Yau, Chinese, dining out, food, London, restaurant review, restaurants, traveleating on May 13th, 2008
[UPDATE: July 2009 - the prices have gone up at Cha Cha Moon] Alan Yau’s long-awaited Chinese noodle bar Cha Cha Moon finally opened off Carnaby Street a few days ago. The restaurateur behind Wagamama and Busaba Eathai (as well as Hakkasan, Yauatcha and Sake no Hana of course) has returned to low-budget communal dining. [...]
