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 would be [...]
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: suān là huáng guā Cucumbers are part of the squash family and have been cultivated by man for at least 3,000 years. Botanically speaking a cucumber is a fruit just like a tomato, but basically everyone considers them a vegetable. Many varieties are grown throughout the world and the vast majority of them 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. [...]
Pinyin: chǎo luó sī I have no love for the snail. Simply a slug with a shell, the edible variety lives in shallow pools of murky water eating a variety of plankton and carrying with them a variety of parasite’s that humans can host. The snails pictured above were roughly the size of golf balls [...]
Pinyin: chá shù gū suàn miáo chǎo là ròu Rapeseed oil has been used by humans for hundreds of years. In the 1960’s scientists in Canada created a genetically modified rapeseed, now known as Canola oil, to be a more healthy form of oil. but rapeseed oil still rules the kitchen in China. Global rapeseed [...]
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