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Introducing the Guide to Bread Baking in China
I have been baking sourdough bread for more than a year now, and it occurs to me that I’ve learned an awful lot in that time. Not only how to knead dough by hand, or how to shape a loaf using minimal...
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It’s yuanxiao season!
Happy year of the rabbit, everyone! (In Vietnam, it’s the year of the cat, incidentally.) If you’re looking for special Chinese New Year (or Spring Festival) treats, you can’t really do better than the...
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My favorite hot pot
Forget Ding Ding Xiang. Forget Donglaishun. When real Beijingers want a good mutton hot pot in the middle of winter, they head to Jubaoyuan, in Niu Jie. Why Jubaoyuan? The mutton and beef are fresh and...
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Taiwan Food Street, and the best Grass Jelly ever
I haven’t found much reason to like the new Qianmen Dajie: it’s a commercialized travesty of its former self, with hordes of tourists, a sterile atmosphere, and myriad chain shops (noteworthy gems...
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The Berries Best
This year, as last year, I was invited to be an expert on theBeijinger’s 2011 Restaurant Awards. Though sometimes the winners are rather consistent from year to year, the award ceremony is always fun...
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Snack Snapshot: Sunflower Seed Cakes
These are one of my favorite snacks when wandering around the hutongs of Beijing. They are almost granola bar-like, and seem to contain nothing more than what you can see and taste: sunflower seeds,...
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South Asia by way of Sanyuan Qiao: Tamarind
What happens when we watch nothing but Bollywood movies week after week? Strong intermittent cravings for all things India, including, of course, Indian food. That’s when a trip to Tamarind is called...
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Eating Weeds – and the flower of the underworld
It’s a rare chance that we get to appreciate the weird and wondrous ways of nature in the midst of Beijing, but our weekly vegetable deliveries from Therese’s organic farm usually do the trick. Though...
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The Nicest Ice: Beijing’s Best Baobing
There’s little else I’d rather eat on a hot summer’s day than a mountain of shaved ice (刨冰 baobing) – sometimes in lieu of the meal itself. What better way to cool down during a blisteringly hot day in...
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Beijing Favorites: Dining at the Salt Merchants 锦府盐帮
Most foreigners in Beijing might think of another salt-themed restaurant, but the Salt Merchants restaurant, by the Purple Bamboo Park, is the only one for me. I could happily go to Jinfu Yanbang...
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