May 31st, 2009 | Food Porn, Travel | 18 Comments
Beggar's Chicken Step-by-Step Eating Guide pictures (1 of 10)
In China, there are many dishes where the name originated from a folklore, legend, or story. Beggar’s Chicken (叫化鸡) is another dish with an interesting history. (Read my post about “Goubuli Baozi/Steamed Pork Buns” to learn about another legendary dish.)
Legend has it that a homeless, starving beggar had a chicken but didn’t have a stove to prepare it. Desperate for food, he came up with an idea. He killed the chicken and covered it with mud and baked it with fire…
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I went to Tianjin (天津) today, a city east of Beijing and a mere 30 minutes away by high-speed bullet train. It’s a city with lots of history but I came here mostly for these baozi and to check out the food scenes here.
Goubuli baozi (狗不理包子) is famous in China with branches all over mainland China. The original restaurant was…
Greetings from Beijing!
I am here for a few weeks. It’s summer now and the weather has been warm and breezy. If it’s not because of the frigid cold winter months, I might well be delighted to live and work in Beijing, for a little while.
I simply can’t say enough how I love Chinese food–I mean, the “real” kind of Chinese…
This is a scheduled post of the mini blueberry muffins that I baked a couple of weeks ago. Fresh from the oven with farm-fresh blueberries. YUM!
Get my recipe of blueberry muffins here.
As much as I love other cuisines and am contantly expanding my culinary repertoire by sampling out new foods, ultimately I love Chinese cuisine the best. The reason is simple: Chinese cuisine is probably the most comprehensive cuisine in the world with numerous regional flavors that I can never get bored of! (Chinese food consists of eight regional flavors.) Other…
As a Malaysian food blog, I really haven’t done a good job in introducing my readers about Malay-style cooking, which is essentially the main cuisine type in Malaysia as the ethnic Malays make up about 2/3 of Malaysia’s total population. So, today, I am going to introduce you to Nasi Melayu (literally means “Malay rice”) or the cooking of the…
Penang Assam Laksa–commonly referred to as “laksa” by Penangites–is one hawker food you don’t want to miss if you come to Penang. (Georgetown, Penang is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site.)
This Laksa is not to be confused with the other Laksa–a coconut-milk and curry-flavored noodle dish. Penang Laksa is a noodle dish in spicy fish broth topped with various shredded…
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