Blog Tag - Provincial Government Restaurants
If Xinjiang cuisine is the perfect accompaniment to hazy summer nights accented with cheap beer and lamb and fragments of cumin lodged deep under the...
Jiangsu Province, often referred to in Chinese as “the land of fish and rice,” is a picturesque and bountiful province that borders the Yellow Sea....
Last year I started on a mission to try all of Beijing's provincial government restaurants, not just the much-loved Sichuan provincial government...
It has finally happened! Ladies and gentlemen, we have ourselves a provincial government restaurant that isn’t a shining beacon of atrocious service...
Just because something has been around for a really, really long time, doesn’t mean it’s good. That’s what we discovered at the Henan Provincial...
It all started with five people trudging through the pollution, ready to kill for some fresh air.
Nestled in a hutong off a hutong, not at all like...
This year I started on a mission to try all of Beijing's provincial government restaurants, not just the much-loved Sichuan provincial government...
With my dining companions wearing thin as I dragged them from one mediocre restaurant to another even-less-than-mediocre restaurant, I prayed to all...
The first time I passed through Guizhou by train many years ago, I remember looking the province up in Lonely Planet, only to come across a rather...
Guangxi: a very popular tourist destination with its magnificent peaks, but not the most popular of cuisines. Apart from Guilin rice noodles, coming...
This month’s Prov Gov mission was completed on the west side of the city, near Xidan. We biked up an appetite, but enjoyed the scenic route, hoping...
This month’s provincial government restaurant features one of China’s best comfort foods and soul warmers: lamian, or northwestern China’s hand-...
I was secretly hoping that this month’s provincial restaurant wouldn’t be as depressing as the Anhui entry in June, but our visit to the Fujian...
Because Beijing’s restaurants have more to offer than meets the eye, this is the start of a monthly column whereby we visit one of the many...