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…
Voted as one of the places to go in 2009 by The New York Times, Penang is a popular tourist destination in Asia. My family runs Penang private tour and Penang culinary tour services, catered specifically to foreign tourists and visitors. Unlike other mass-market packaged tours with a van that loads and unloads visitors at various tourist traps, our Penang private…
My good friend N is a huge fan of L’Atelier de Joel Robuchon. He is a foodie and has been raving to me about his many dining experiences at L’Atelier (especially the one in Las Vegas). So, when N told me that he chanced upon L’Atelier at The Landmark in Hong Kong and would like to invite me for dinner,…
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…
When I was in Japan last week, I was very lucky to try out traditional Japanese breakfast at the hotel I stayed at. Needless to say, it was a new culinary experience to me–to be served with such beautiful and delicious small dishes to start off my busy day.
Traditional Japanese breakfast is a substantial meal and usually consists of a…
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