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Category Archives: Chinese food
A Chinese pan-fried flatbread and “Chinese hamburger”
As the cuisine of China’s interior becomes popular in US cities (i.e. among the popular Xi’an-themed restaurants in NYC and Philadelphia–see here for my past post on that topic), items like “Chinese hamburger” are slowly becoming commonplace on menus at … Continue reading
Posted in - Featured Food Discoveries, - Recipes, Chinese food
Tagged bai ji mo, baijimo, Chinese hamburger, 白吉馍, 肉夹馍, 锅盔, 西安, flatbread, guokui, rou jia mo, roujiamo
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Sour times: the instant noodle-fueled rise of “old crock” sour vegetables
In a 2014 post I tried to argue that the Kang Shifu 康師傅 (aka Chef Kang, or Master Kong) “happy chef” and his style of the popular beef stew noodles have influenced not only other instant noodle brands in Taiwan … Continue reading
Posted in - Featured Food Discoveries, Chinese food
Tagged 老坛, 酸菜, instant noodles, Kang Shifu, 康师傅, 康師傅
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Guilin rice noodles for breakfast
My 2014 posts on Guilin rice noodles (Guilin mifen 桂林米粉 master stock and noodle staging) are two of the most viewed posts on this blog. Google is the primary referrer, and I attribute these search engine queries to: 1. people … Continue reading
Posted in - Featured Food Discoveries, - Recipes, Chinese food
Tagged braised pork, Chinese food, five spice, guilin, mifen, pickled mustard, rice noodles, 桂林米粉
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Sweet preserved daikon and Pad Thai
Pad Thai (ผัดไทย literally “Thai-style fry”) is one of the most popular and best known dishes in the genre of Thai cooking, both in Thailand and abroad. The name of this dish comes from a time of nation-building for Thailand, … Continue reading
Posted in - Featured Food Discoveries, - Recipes, Chinese food, Thai/Lao food
Tagged ผัดไทย, ไชโป๊, 炒河粉, daikon, 菜脯, pad thai, 泰式炒面
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Spicy pickled cowpeas and leftovers for breakfast
For me, breakfast is an important meal. I’m not big on cereal or doughnuts or the like however. Ever since my time living in Thailand, I adopted the habit of eating leftovers, fried rice, noodles, or random things on toast. … Continue reading
Posted in - Featured Food Discoveries, - Recipes, Chinese food
Tagged black-eyed peas, breakfast, chicken, cowpeas, leftovers, pickled, sandwich, spicy, 早餐, 泡豇豆
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Turpan raisins in Chinatown
We have yet another import from the Uyghur homeland of Xinjiang available here in Philadelphia. These are raisins from Turpan, a city particularly well known for its sweet fruit (including grapes and melons). I found these at the newly reborn … Continue reading
Posted in - Featured Food Discoveries, - Featured Markets, Central Asia/Uyghur food, Chinese food
Tagged 葡萄干, fruit, raisins, Uyghur, Xinjiang, 新疆
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Cantonese clay pot rice
Rice cooked in earthenware pots is a specialty in various places throughout China, but the dish is particularly well known in Hong Kong and broader Guangdong, by the name baozai fan 煲仔飯 (also written 堡仔飯, and pronounced bozei faan in … Continue reading
Posted in - Featured Markets, - Recipes, Chinese food
Tagged baozai fan, Cantonese, 煲仔飯, 砂鍋, 粤菜, 锅巴, Guangdong, guoba, Hong Kong, shaguo, 堡仔飯, 广东
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Four unique Asian dried chile peppers
Chile peppers have only been in Asia for several hundred years now, but they have gone a long, long way to become standard and staple ingredients in many of Asia’s great food cultures. Southeast Asia is of course full of … Continue reading
Posted in - Featured Food Discoveries, - Featured Markets, - Recipes, Chinese food, Indian food
Tagged buttermilk, buttermilk cured chiles, chaotian pepper, chili, chilly, curd chile, dahi michi, dried chiles, 辣椒, facing heaven pepper, Kashmir pepper, majjiga mirapakayalu, moor milagi, Sichuan, South Indian, Szechuan, tair mulak, Tamil Nadu, vathals, 四川, 朝天
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