By ‘Sky’, guestblogger | Edited by Juling He
I was born September 9th, 1999 in Shandong Province. I believe life is full of joy and happiness. I love baking and cooking, which is very possibly attributed to my mother’s antenatal education. When she carried me, she watched mostly TV food programs, thus influencing me. I have a [...]
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About the author: Juling He, writer and translator, is married to Zuofei Yuan, a happy young man who sings songs while washing clothes and listens to music while cooking at home after returning from his research at the Chinese Academy of Science. With the spare time he had on holiday, he cooked a lot and found [...]
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Braised aubergine (紅燒茄子, hóngshāo qiézi) is a dishI love and remember fondly from my mother’s cooking. Making braised aubergine is very simple, using few ingredients. Aubergine absorbs oil easily and people usually make aubergine using too much oil. No one likes greasy aubergine. However, my mother’s braised aubergine is not greasy at all. [...]
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Kūnmíng (昆明), Yunnan, China — Growing up, my father didn’t cook. He afforded the food set on the table. Together he and my mother tended the garden that brought organic food to our plates before I had ever heard of the word “organic.” When my mother had her third child, [...]
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