Blog Tag - cooking

Warm Up With This Healthy Chili Con Carne Recipe
With the weather set to take another cold plunge this weekend, with lows of minus 12, it’s the perfect time to stay in and enjoy a hearty home-cooked...
R Stick-to-Your-Ribs Red-Cooked Pork Belly for Winter Days
Of all the colder weather-appropriate dishes to be found within Chinese cuisine – bubbling hot pot, a steaming bowl of Lanzhou lamian, a hearty bowl...
3 Beijing-Inspired Recipes to Cook at Home
Chinese cuisine is a smorgasbord of intricate, rich flavors and techniques passed down through generations. Now it's the perfect time to explore and...
Wok On With These English-Language Chinese Recipe Sites
Every new year that I spend in China, I always set myself the resolution of learning how to cook more Chinese dishes, but it can be tricky to find...
Chinese Cookbook: Sticky Chicken Wings, and Spinach and Peanut Salad
If you're cooking at home this week, why not try two simple Chinese dishes: sweet and spicy chicken wings and spinach and peanut salad? The wings...
How to Make Dry-Pot Cauliflower (干锅菜花)
Dry pot (gānguō) dishes appear frequently on the menus of Hunan, Sichuan, and homestyle cuisine restaurants. Exceedingly versatile, gānguō dishes can...
Spice Trails: Stock Your Pantry With this Adaptable Chili Oil
Like many amateur cooks, I’m understandably wary of large containers of hot oil so until recently I hadn’t ever given much thought to making my own...
Keep Cozy This Winter With This Warming Recipe For Biangbiang Noodles
Freezing weather. Airpocalypse. Netflix addiction. Laziness. They’re all fantastic reasons not to leave your house this winter. And not leaving the...
Beijing's Winter Vegetables: Three Sweet Potato Recipes You Can Follow At Home
Sweet potatoes are everywhere during Beijing in winter, and if you get sick of just eating them off the street vendors, why not get some and try a...
What's With All the Cabbages? The Significance of Stocking Up on China's Hardiest Veg Before Winter
Preparation for the winter hibernation period has begun, a time when Beijingers keep themselves busy purchasing goods for the long cold months to...
Chinese Cookbook: Steamed Pork and Spring Onion Baozi
A true comfort food throughout the year, steamed baozi are the Holy Grail of Chinese breakfast staples. Although most commonly seen steaming outside...
Upgrade Your Snack Game with a Batch of Chinese Tea Eggs
I love eggs in all their forms but there is a special place in my heart for that most portable of Chinese breakfast foods: the tea egg. A humble tea...
Stocked Up on Fresh Veg? Here is a Guide on How to Freeze it
Talks of a possible lockdown have led many among us to stock up on some essentials such as fresh vegetables, however what happens if there is no...
Chinese Cookbook: Simple and Flavorsome Stir-Fried Chinese Courgette With Egg
If you’ve been in China long enough you would have already become very much aware that in Chinese cuisine, the humble vegetable is regularly elevated...
Chinese Cookbook: Learn How to Make Chinese Spicy Garlic Stir-Fried Eggplant
Despite having "fish fragrance" in its name, there's no addition of fish whatsoever in stir-fried spicy garlic eggplant (鱼香茄子 yú xiāng qiézi). And...