I must confess, soup dishes are my favorite in winter. Maybe you are like me, and a hot, light, healthy soup is what you long for the most when the weather is cold. In China, we have a saying: “冬吃萝卜夏吃姜，不用先生开药方。” This means eating radish in winter and eating ginger in […]
As a proud northern Chinese, I can live my life without rice, but I can’t survive without noodles. When it’s winter, all the noodle shops around the neighbourhood are full during meal times. You can smell the delicious soup noodles even across the street. One of my favourite memories is […]
As a northern Chinese, I can live without rice but not without noodles. One of the many things I really miss whenever I’m away from Beijing is a good bowl of Beijing Zhajiang noodles (老北京炸酱面 lǎo běi jīng zhà jiàng miàn). There are many theories regarding where Beijing Zhajiang noodles […]
