Blog Tag - cooking
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...
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...
Chinese cuisine is a smorgasbord of intricate, rich flavors and techniques passed down through generations. Now it's the perfect time to explore and...
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...
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...
Dry pot (gānguō) dishes appear frequently on the menus of Hunan, Sichuan, and homestyle cuisine restaurants. Exceedingly versatile, gānguō dishes can...
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...
Freezing weather. Airpocalypse. Netflix addiction. Laziness. They’re all fantastic reasons not to leave your house this winter. And not leaving the...
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...
Preparation for the winter hibernation period has begun, a time when Beijingers keep themselves busy purchasing goods for the long cold months to...
A true comfort food throughout the year, steamed baozi are the Holy Grail of Chinese breakfast staples. Although most commonly seen steaming outside...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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