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 [...]
Posted in food on Jan 30th, 2010
You’ll find here some ‘informational’ posts on Chinese food topics and Chinese food etiquette – handy tips on how to deal with certain foods that can be a little trickier to eat, as well as other useful information.
10 Food Photography Links
9 Useful Food & Travel Links
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Posted in Japan, Japanese, Kyoto, dining out, food, food & travel, noodles, restaurant review, restaurants, sushi, travel, travel tips, traveleating, vegetarian on Nov 29th, 2009
After travelling to see the Jigokudani snow monkeys (see Snow Monkeys and Soba Noodles) in the Japan Alps, we returned to Yokohama to repack our bags before leaving early the next morning for Kyoto, Japan’s old imperial capital.
Planning the three days was harder than I thought. I had to drop many of the items on [...]
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 [...]
