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'Cold Wontons' Noodle Shop - One of Shanghai's Best Noodle Joints 20 Aug 2013 | 08:20 am
The sign on the door said simply: "Cold Wontons." Hardly an appetising name. My Chinese friend had described it to me like this: "Near the corner of Changhua Lu and Changping Lu there are two noodl....
Pilgrim's Promise: Langmusi Monastery 13 Aug 2013 | 03:27 pm
Could this be the most beautiful place in all of China? Langmusi, an alpine Tibetan village surrounded by mountains and forests and filled with crimson-robed monks walking its narrow streets, was our...
Getting to Langmusi: Further Travels in Tibetan Qinghai and Gansu (and Why You Should Never Join Us On A Road Trip) 5 Aug 2013 | 05:18 pm
You know how some road-trippers know exactly where they're going, on what highway, for how many miles, and have already planned what they'll see along the way and where they'll stop for the night? I ...
Ten Must Try Foods in Qinghai 十大不容错过的青海美食 26 Jul 2013 | 04:27 am
Travelling to Qinghai? Want to know what to eat there? Qinghai is one of China's most wild, remote and beautiful provinces. Due north of Tibet, the western desert gives way to high grasslands in the ...
Highway to Heaven: Qinghai's Route S101 13 Jul 2013 | 01:24 pm
The Road Trip. You'd think by now I might have worked road trips out of my system, after covering most of China last year on 30,000km of its good and not-so-good roads. But I've always loved road tri...
Adventures in Tofu Part Two: Making Your Own Tofu 1 Jul 2013 | 07:20 pm
After resounding success making your own soy milk I know you'll want to crack right on and get to making your own tofu. Tofu is made of just three ingredients - soy beans, water, and a coagulating ag...
China: Twenty Places, Twenty Faces 23 Jun 2013 | 06:56 pm
Just a week from today, I'm going on another adventure. Not a big one, or a particularly long one, but my family and I are heading to China for a couple of weeks and we've mapped ourselves a road trip...
Adventures in Tofu, Part One: Making Soy Milk (Disastrous, Messy, But Ultimately Successful) 11 Jun 2013 | 10:25 am
I've been reading Jeremy Clarkson's book "How Hard Can It Be?" He's the funny guy from Top Gear, the massively popular British car show in which a bunch of middle-aged boys test drive a variety of ver...
Adventures in Tofu, Part One: Making Soy Milk (Disastrous, Messy, But Ultimately Successful) 11 Jun 2013 | 10:25 am
I've been reading Jeremy Clarkson's book "How Hard Can It Be?" He's the funny guy from Top Gear, the massively popular British car show in which a bunch of middle-aged boys test drive a variety of ver...
Shanghai Street Food #33 Three Delicacies Wrapped in Tofu Skin: San Xian Dou Pi 三鲜豆皮 29 May 2013 | 05:17 pm
Here's hoping you weren't all terrified by Dr Fiona's Street Food Survival Guide to the point of swearing off street food altogether. Because it's time to eat some great street food again! This month...
