Pinyin: yuán jī zhī sǔn sī
It’s November now and this dish really hit the spot. It’s a combination of spring bamboo, mushrooms and assorted vegetables served in a bowl of some of the tastiest chicken broth I’ve had in a good long time. It really brought back memories of mom’s home cooking after a long [...]
Pinyin: sǔn gān lǎo yā bāo
Bamboo is such a very Chinese thing, from pandas to chopsticks it seems as though everything can be made from bamboo. There are a thousand different ways to eat bamboo, but this slow cooked bamboo with duck is one of the best I’ve discovered. The aroma is full flavored with [...]
Pinyin: Xī Hú Niú Ròu Gēng
This is pretty much a classic dish that you’ll find on both sides of the pacific. It’s a pretty common dish in China and nearly every American Chinese restaurant in the USA has a similar dish. And by similar I mean pretty damn close to the exact same.
You know the [...]
Pinyin: Guò Qiáo Mǐ Xiàn
It seems as though more often than not when you go to eat out in China you also have to do at least a little cooking. Case in point is this dish of Yunnan Rice Noodles. The waitress brings around a tray of food stuffs as you can see in the [...]
Pinyin: Sī Fáng Zhǔ Gàn Sī
A soup that isn’t a soup. Shrimp, tofu, and veggies in this soupy broth. As it turns out the soupy broth is quite good and worth drinking, even though it technically isn’t a soup.
The food in and of itself is good. The tofu and shrimp are nice, a little salty, [...]
Pinyin: Shí Jǐn Mó Gū Tāng
Mushrooms galore! I do love mushrooms and consequently this soup is mighty tasty. There are at least three types of mushrooms in here, I think there might even be four or five and that broth is phenomenal, I don’t know what it was made out of but WOW.
The one [...]