Salt brings out the flavours in our creations, but now there is a line of flavoured salts available at THE drive-thru, a shop specializing in imported beers (they deliver!), herbs and spices, and customized fixed gear bikes – special stuff! Here’s a list of the salts available in different flavours. Have you [...]
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I found a most enticing event pop up on my Facebook feed and found myself craving papaya salad. My friend since high school, Siamphone Louankang, is hosting the National Papaya Salad Contest at Lao New Year in San Francisco on April 28th, 2012.
Check out the beautiful photos taken of making papaya salad [...]
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My friend at Hias Gourmet (hiasgourmet.com) is hiring food guides in Beijing!
Hias Gourmet is a Beijing-based specialist culinary excursions and events company. We specialize in:
Walking Food Tours
Cooking Classes
Food-Focused Team Building
Creative Dining Events
HIRING: FOOD GUIDE
Are you passionate about Chinese foods?
Do you [...]
Wanting to return a favor for providing cardboard moving boxes, Greg and Candice asked what they could do in return. Peikwen suggested a home-cooked double date. These days, I find home-cooked meals a truly, dear currency and something we can all consider doing more. I am looking forward to a [...]
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中国，广东，梅县-世界上各民族散居的现象总是让人称奇。正是世界人口流动的方便性，我们会发现自己呆在一个国家时却像生活在地球村，甚至有时候感觉生活在月球上。今天我访问的家庭是中国人，来自广东客家族。他们曾经从中国移民到印度尼西亚，而他们的后人如今分布在世界各地：有一部分移民到美国去了，还有一部分像招待我的主人-82岁的温婆一样，最后又回到了中国居住。
Continue Reading →I’m half Filipino from my mother’s side, and my other half is mostly Danish American. I like to talk about my family a lot on this site because a lot of things in life I associate with my family. There are a lot of things our parents try to teach us, but when you’re young [...]
Continue Reading →I live in Beijing; my neighborhood is a concrete jungle and there are no plots to muse a community garden anywhere in sight. I’m really starting to want my own garden, right about now. I regret how much I took my parents’ garden for granted. What [...]
Continue Reading →To answer a fellow tweeter’s question, yes, the Beijing IKEA also serves Swedish Meatballs.
Smirk if you will, but during my trip to IKEA for organization boxes and pantry containers, I envisioned a calm day at the IKEA cafeteria. As I left my [...]
Continue Reading →Shanghai, China — Brunch just before flying back to Beijing.
Quite possibly my last shrimp meal with mystery origins. Why? Answer
New location in Shanghai, next door to the Starbucks at THE PORTMAN RITZ-CARLTON SHANGHAI 邮政编码:
Nanjing Xi Lu, Shanghai, China, 200040
Continue Reading →Shanghai, CHINA — Lunch at a restaurant serving Shanghai cuisine
Grandma’s Red Braised Pork Belly (外婆红烧肉, Wàipó Hóng Shāo ròu) — The flavor was right, it looked perfect, but it didn’t fall apart, melt in my mouth, or make me believe I’d died [...]
Continue Reading →Happy New Year! 新年快乐!
Happy 2010 and happy year of the Tiger! Through the ShowShanti project, I have visited 17 families in 2009. I look forward to bridging more relationships with families in China, learning their favorite recipes.
Wishing everyone a successful year [...]
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