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The end of the menu 9 Dec 2012 | 09:10 pm
So it's been nearly a year since I last posted, and it's time for me to admit that the Chinese menu project has run its course. There are a number of reasons for this, but perhaps the main one is tha...
Apologies for lack of posting... 27 Feb 2012 | 08:46 am
[Image: A small glass bowl containing fish balls, chunks of daikon radish, and large pieces of translucent pig skin, all bathed in a reddish-brown broth with small "eyes" of fat floating on the surfac...
Reading Chinese Menus: 辣椒油 — là jiāo yóu — chilli oil 3 Feb 2012 | 09:17 am
[Image: A close-up view on some bright red chilli oil in a glass jar. A sedimental layer of sesame seeds and crushed dried chillies is visible at the bottom.] As you may have noticed, it's technicall...
Reading Chinese Menus: Ingredients: 粉絲 — fěn sī — glass noodles 28 Jan 2012 | 06:35 am
[Image: A large dark plate with two piles of thin, translucent noodles, one on each side. The pile on the left is somewhat larger and has fewer straggly ends.] It's still ingredient month! Each week ...
Reading Chinese Menus: The inner workings of the lunisolar calendar 24 Jan 2012 | 02:13 am
新年快樂！ Happy New Year! 新年快樂 (xīn nián kuài lè)! Today marks the start of the Year of the Dragon! To celebrate this, I have a guest post from shuripentu, who has previously guest posted here on the su...
Reading Chinese Menus: Ingredients: 醬油 / 豉油 — jiàng yóu / chǐ yóu — soy sauce 16 Jan 2012 | 04:16 am
[Image: Two small white saucers, one containing light soy sauce and the other containing dark soy sauce. The saucers have been tilted to show that the dark soy sauce is much more viscous.] As I menti...
Reading Chinese Menus: Ingredients: 香菇／冬菇 — xiāng gū/dōng gū — shiitake mushrooms 6 Jan 2012 | 06:45 am
[Image: Dried shiitake piled up in a heap. The dark brown tops of the mushrooms bear a characteristic cracked pattern, though some also appear to have been cut and scored to accentuate the natural cra...
No blog post again this week. 17 Dec 2011 | 12:34 am
I have to apologise again for not putting up a proper blog post this week (and also to anyone who's waiting for an email reply from me). I just have too much to do at the moment, and I'm still not get...
No blog post this week. 9 Dec 2011 | 10:20 am
No blog post this week, sorry. I've been sleeping very badly recently and can't think straight. Here is a photo of some pumpkin-shaped dim sum instead (taken at Shanghai Blues in Holborn). [Image: A ...
Recipe translation: 紅油黄瓜拌豬耳朵絲 (hóng yóu huáng guā bàn zhū ěr duǒ) — pig ear & cucumber in chilli oil 30 Nov 2011 | 07:10 am
Last week I posted about pig's ears with chilli oil, and mentioned that although I hadn't been able to find any recipes for this in English, I hoped to be able to link to a Chinese one in translation ...
