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.
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cookbook club
The Gourmet Cookbook Club: Chinese Noodles Four Ways
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.
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.
02.13.08
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- 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.
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.
02.04.08
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- 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.
01.28.08
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- 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.
01.22.08
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- 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
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- 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.
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.
01.08.08
- Keywords
- francis lam,
- culinary culture,
- china,
- hong kong