A Detour & Mapo Tofu
For the first time since university, I have a proper backpacking trip coming up – six weeks across northwest China – in order to update a guidebook. I’ll be heading […]
Tag Archives: Learning to cook Chinese-style
Comfort Food in Any Language & Disanxian
I’ve been thinking about comfort foods recently. What is it that makes them comforting? My guess is that they’re often foods that we ate as children – in my case, […]
Fish-Flavoured Eggplant & Why Cook Chinese at Home?
Fish-flavoured eggplant (鱼香茄子, yúxiāng qiézi*) was one of the first dishes that I ate in China. I think I must have chanced upon it via a random order from a […]
Breakfast in Dali & a Congee Recipe
A few years ago, while working as a tour guide in Yunnan, I had a guest who – every morning – insisted on “not eating lunch for breakfast”. She had […]
Vegetable Porn & Chinese Cheese
Dali in Yunnan is home to some of China’s best-looking vegetables. The Bai people who live in and around Dali have been blessed with a lush, fertile strip of homeland, […]
Learning to Cook & Garlicky Greens
While I’ve been living in China and Hong Kong for almost seven years, I still can’t really cook Chinese food. Earlier this month, while trawling Hong Kong’s supermarkets for pickled […]
Little Yak 