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The Gourmet Cookbook Club: Chinese Noodles Four Ways

The authors of Beyond the Great Wall: Recipes and Travels in the Other China, show you how to use a single dough to create four regional noodle varieties.

06.18.08
Keywords
cookbook club,
jeffrey alford,
naomi duguid,
video,
beyond the great wall
travel + culture

A Banquet of Bugs

You can taste exquisitely crisp Peking duck in Beijings’s restaurants, but you’d be much better off savoring a caterpillar or katydid at the Night Food Market.
Stephen Henderson
06.06.08
Keywords
stephen henderson,
china,
asia,
culinary culture
travel + culture

Love Child

A few weeks ago I traveled to the small island country of Macau, a place scarred deeply by both the Chinese and Portuguese Empires.
Ian Knauer
02.13.08
Keywords
travel,
china,
asia,
ian knauer,
restaurants
travel + culture

Postcard from Yunnan, Part 5

The other food product Yunnan is famous for is mushrooms. One hot pot restaurant had 37 varieties of mushrooms …in the off season.
Francis Lam
02.11.08
Keywords
francis lam,
travel,
china,
asia,
culinary culture
travel + culture

Postcard from Yunnan, Part 4

Lijiang, at the foot of Yulong Mountain, boasts two ancient cities: one destroyed by earthquake in 1996 and restored; the other intact for over 800 years.
Francis Lam
02.04.08
Keywords
travel,
china,
asia,
francis lam,
culinary culture
travel + culture

Postcard from Yunnan, Part 3

I could tell you about the sweet peas I had at lunch, but my understanding of culinary dispatches from abroad dictates that I tell you about frog skin.
Francis Lam
01.28.08
Keywords
travel,
meat,
china,
asia,
francis lam
travel + culture

Postcard from Yunnan, Part 2

Food-wise, Yunnan is most famous for its ham, a salty, long-cured product that can be compared to jamon serrano or prosciutto.
Francis Lam
01.22.08
Keywords
travel,
pork,
china,
asia,
francis lam
diary of a foodie

Gourmet's Diary of a Foodie: China

From the rural countryside to the urban centers, we explore the then and now of Chinese cuisine.

01.14.08
Keywords
diary of a foodie,
video,
china
travel + culture

Postcard from Yunnan, Part 1

This is hardly a cultural homecoming, but it is a good time. Part 1 in a series.
Francis Lam
01.15.08
Keywords
travel,
culinary culture,
china,
asia,
francis lam
food + cooking

Swallowing Clouds

When I was a kid, I spent my summers in Hong Kong, running around with my cousins and fueling our video game binges with street food.
Francis Lam
01.08.08
Keywords
francis lam,
culinary culture,
china,
hong kong