Like most food obsessions, mine began innocently enough. On my first morning in Beijing, I stepped out of my guesthouse into the bustle of a serpentine alley. Amid the scurrying shoppers, honking taxis, and bell-clanging bicycles, I stopped at a sidewalk bakery stall, where a battered wooden table overflowed with stacks of round breads. Some […]
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China’s Wine Country
Guest post by Shelley Seale China has begun an exciting love affair with wine, and vineyards are springing up as European investors have poured more than 150 million Euros into the effort. The Chinese are now the largest consumers of wine, and the winemakers here are the world’s 7th largest producer of grape wines. Yantai, […]
Modern Fusion Cuisine in China
Guest post by Shelley Seale Modern China is a melting pot of exciting fusion cuisines, where Chinese chefs and celebrated foreigners alike are creating innovative new worlds for the palate. With the increasing capitalism, foreign influx and sophisticating palate of China over the past twenty years, many chefs have been busy creating exciting new fusions […]