在北京时，来自湖南的美食博主小周曾邀请我参加一场美食艺术秀。记得在那场艺术秀上，几个美食名博把切好的面包片艺术地堆在一起，拍下照片，再上传到自己的博客上。她还告诉过我她很喜欢的菜是腊味合蒸。后来，我来到她的老家，从她父亲-周师傅那里学到了更多他们家人喜欢的家常菜。
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Learned from Zhōu Shifu, Xiao Zhou‘s father
shǒu sī zhúsǔn (手撕竹笋, hand-torn bamboo shoots)
Shǒu sī zhúsǔn (手撕竹笋, hand-torn bamboo shoots) is a simple dish made with fresh bamboo shoots. Canned bamboo shoots won’t do the flavor justice and may only hint of a shoe closet. Before coming to China, I thought [...]
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Baishicun, Changsha, Hunan, China — In Beijing, a fellow Beijing food blogger, Xiao Zhou, invited me to an event where several Chinese food bloggers stacked sliced bread artfully, photographed the sculptures, then uploaded the photos to their respective blogs. Xiao Zhou is from Hunan and told me of Continue Reading →
Suān là zhēng jī (酸辣蒸鸡, free-range chicken steamed with pickled chili peppers) is a popular dish in Hunan and everyone makes it differently. Varying by the cook’s style, every bowl I’ve come across is easy to make yet so delicious. Zhou Shifu‘s version is especially easy, and the most simple in flavor as it only [...]
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Xiao Zhou, originally from Hunan, is a book artist (书籍艺术) and avid food blogger in Beijing. She creates, cooks, writes, and photographs. I asked Xiao Zhou to share with ShowShanti her favorite dish from home.
In Hunan province, Smoked Fish is a famous dish; [...]
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