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Archive for Chinese Food
Salmagundi on a Sunday
It’s the weekend, and time for another Salmagundi! From around the world, and maybe right around your community, here are some interesting items:
Disney is hosting a Best Cake Face-Off through their playful, interesting site, FamilyFun.com.
Cook for your kids, don’t let them die drowning in fat…
Cooking is good for the whole family; Five Generations in the [...] Read more »
More Malaysian: Fish Curry and Mee Goreng
Malaysia has an advantageous geographic position, as far as food influences go. For the last many centuries, travelers going north and south have used the peninsula to travel from China and Indochina to Indonesia and beyond. Those traders and travelers going east-west have had to deal with this long reach of land in their road. [...] Read more »
Homesick Again
I woke up homesick this morning. For a place I visit infrequently, and not since January of 2007. Yang Ming Shan, the mountain park and resort only a city bus ride from downtown Taipei, Taiwan, is the area I mean. In particular, the village of Zhu Zi Hu, or Bamboo Lake in American-speak, was on [...] Read more »
Friday Food Follies IV
It’s Not Food Unless It Hurts
There’s a lot of chatter out there right now about the health benefits of curry dishes. Arthritis relief, weight loss, and cancer prevention are seen as benefits of curcumin, the yellow pigment in turmeric. Because curcumin loses most of its punch when eaten, you have to ingest Really A Lot [...] Read more »
My Top Five Places to Eat Spicy Food in Asia
No. 5: Indian Kitchen, Gubei District, Shanghai
The Gubei District in Shanghai, the first area where Western expatriates settled in (reopened) Shanghai in 1994, is where a lot of us round-eyes hang out. A great variety of European eateries are located there, and there is good, safe walking areas as well. The Hongqiao Pearl Market is [...] Read more »
