QotD: Your fantasy restaurant
If you could open any sort of restaurant, what would it be like? It would have to be a Chinese cafe, specialize in all the lost recipes. Pig blood jelly, stinky tofu (my favorite), pig's lung soap,...
View ArticleQotD: Speak To Me In…
How many languages can you speak? Which languages can you read or understand? My shameful answer is that I can speak one and half languages, English and Cantonese. I barely have any opportunity to...
View Article11 and 4
11 – prime number, and the whole number after 10 and before 12. But it is also the number of years eiron and I have been together. Bloody hell! That's a long time! 4 – even number, and unlucky in...
View ArticleA Dumpling Manifesto
From Slate: The Chinese dumpling is a magnificent product of the human imagination: At its best, it is charming in appearance, chewy and savory, and can trigger a head rush like sashimi or blue...
View ArticleGoldfish memory
So the stereotype image of average American is right, they do have goldfish memory. From CNNMoney: American consumers have reinforced all the stereotypes they are labeled with: short attention spans,...
View ArticleChing chong
I don't like either Donald Trump or Rosie O'Donnell but I have to give Donald Trump credits for calling her an ignorant racist after she made fun of the Chinese on ABC's The View. Apparently she...
View ArticleEat healthier Chinese food
CNN has a piece on unhealthy Chinese food which starts off with sensational news then tempered with: The group found that not much has changed since it examined Chinese food 15 years ago. That's not...
View ArticleThe food Usual Suspects
Due to the crappy business practice in the food industry here in the UK, I've been dying to get back to New York and enjoy great food at reasonable price, at reasonable hours. (Wagamama closed at 8PM...
View ArticleQotD: I’m Not Telling
What question do you hate being asked? "Say something in Chinese!" Why ask me to speak Chinese when no one would understand? I don't see people ask similar question when they meet a French or German...
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