Just off the main shopping street of Wangfujing is the city’s most popular night market. It showcases an array of Chinese street food from all over the country, from marinated chicken skewers, to stir fries and grilled silk worms. Most tourists come here to see the more exotic food like scorpions, snakes and seahorses, but [...]
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Seahorses and Jellyfish – Beijing, China
It’s been a busy week of eating… The most outlandish meal was a turtle garnished with seahorses, a braised buffalo hoof and a side of shark lips. The most surprising would be donkey skewers – the meat was delicately flavoured and surprisingly tender, low in fat and overall very tasty. They were served in a [...]
Jian Bing
As mentioned in a previous post, my favourite street food, and possibly favourite food I’ve found in Beijing is the little street vendor right outside my apartment complex who sells spicy crepes. Now that I’ve learnt enough Chinese to find out they are called Jian Bing I can offer a better explanation of the process: [...]
Chaoyang Crystal BBQ – Beijing, China
There are over 800,000 Koreans in Beijing, which seems high until you realise that Seoul is only 598 miles away – considerably closer than Shanghai. They are mostly ensconced in a large area in the Chaoyang district, imaginatively called Korean Town. A happy by-product of this mass influx is the number of high quality Korean [...]
DaDong Peking Duck – Beijing, China
The only restaurant I’d heard of in Beijing before my arrival was DaDong, a strong contender for the maker of the best Peking Duck in Peking1. The first time I was in Beijing a few years ago I eagerly visited a restaurant called simply ‘Peking Duck’ and was presented with a plate of soggy duck [...]
Chinese Vegetables – Jinan, China
The only remarkable thing on the drive back from Jingdezhen was the huge numbers of lorries transporting parts for wind turbines. A single lorry carried either two blades or a large section of the vertical tower. Annoyingly they were driving three abreast, so the rest of the traffic was severely held up. We stopped the [...]
Restaurants – Beijing, China
Restaurant food here is cheap and exceedingly fast – if the first dish doesn’t appear within a couple of minutes of ordering the customers start shouting at the staff to hurry up. Usually we order a selection of dishes and share everything without bothering with plates, just eating direct from the serving plates with chopsticks. [...]
Spiders – Siem Reap, Cambodia
Today we had the drive from Phnom Penh to Siem Reap (which means Siam Defeated, in recognition of them stealing it from Thailand). On the way we stopped at an ordinary looking truck stop where a lady sat out front selling from a bucket of deep fried spiders, crickets and other bugs. Having eaten crickets [...]
Masterchef – Luang Prabang, Laos
Everyone else had an undeserved lie-in whilst I got up and went to a cookery course at the Tum Tum Cheng restaurant and cooking school. It started off with a shopping trip to a local Market where we walked amongst the rotting fishes and fresh vegetables, getting an understanding of the different ingredients (and swearing [...]
Better food – Luang Prabang, Laos
Hotel breakfasts in Vietnam usually consists of square sliced white bread with an unpleasant odd sweet taste, and a cold fried egg. Despite Pak Beng being in the middle of nowhere this morning we were given freshly baked baguettes with unsalted butter and jam. Hopefully a taste of things to come and a sign that [...]
