Pinyin: bái jiāo chǎo jī zá
Chicken gizzards and giblets are something I only rarely heard around the kitchen when i was growing up. We would buy whole frozen chickens and sometimes pieces would be stuffed inside the chicken. Typically there was a heart, a neck, a liver, and the giblet. These items [...]
Pinyin: zhī ma niú ròu
Sesame seeds make a nice addition to lots of food. Often found on the top of hamburger buns and as a barely noticed accompaniment to many other dishes, the sesame seed and in particular sesame seed oil play a part in a surprising amount of asian food.
Sesame fruit is harvested [...]
Pinyin: duò jiāo yú tóu
As is often the case at a meal in China you’ll sometimes be served something completely unknown. Fish heads served for dinner often come as a surprise to the uninitiated. There are a few things to make your fish head dining experience an appetizing proposition.
The first thing to know [...]
Pinyin: qīn jiāo dòu fǔ gān
Dried tofu is pretty amazing in it’s resemblance to meat. The drying process gives the tofu a tougher even chewy texture, very similar to rubber. Rubbery food isn’t always desired, but in the case of tofu it’s a nice change. Dried tofu is still fresh, the drying [...]
Pinyin: dòu bàn jūn gū chǒu xiā rén
We started eating fava beans around 6000 B.C. and over time they spread around the world and most cultures use them in one fashion or another. The beans don’t climb like most other beans and they can stay in the ground over winter. Fava beans are [...]
Pinyin: yān sǔn là ròu
Salt is one of the necessary ingredients for us to live and has been used in cooking for almost all of human history. Salt is mined or harvested and then refined. Once it is refined a large portion of salt ends up in factories and is used for industrial purposes. [...]
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