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Dim Sum to touch your heart

April 8, 2009

That’s what dim sum means – “to touch your heart”. Dim Sum originated in the Guangdong region of Southern China and were served at tea houses as delicious accompaniments to the tea. Originally tea and not food was the focus of tea houses, as yum cha literally means to drink tea in Cantonese. For that [...]

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Dreaming of Shanghainese little lobsters…

March 11, 2009

Have I mentioned I have a slight obsession with crustaceans? I love them in every form and if it appears on a menu, I’m going to order it. I have now eaten various crustacean species all over the world, from the delicious Alaskan King Crab in Miami, to the alien insect-like mantis prawns in Hong [...]

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Revolutionise your tea experience

February 20, 2009

I love Asian tea, I drink copious amounts of it and anytime that I’m in HK or China I’m always making sure I seek out a good tea house to stock up on new and exotic teas. My favourite teas to have at home are ginseng oolong or ti kuan yin with osmanthus flowers; and [...]

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Strange Chinese tales about oysters

February 17, 2009

I recently stumbled across a hilarious website called My Mom Is A Fob. It got me thinking about my parents and the “strange and bizarre” tales my parents have fed me over the years. So, in homage to that site, here are two food related stories that belong on it. They both happen to contain [...]

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Quite frankly Sir, I find that offensive!

January 9, 2009

I’m having another “shaking fist” moment. I just saw the Shanghai episode of Kylie Kwong’s “My China” TV show series on SBS and it infuriated me. Not the entire episode – just one scene. It went something like this: Kylie Kwong spots a street vendor wielding a large wok and claims he was just what [...]

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The Asian Food Odyssey – Part 3 (final): Hong Kong

December 20, 2008

The final section of our trip was spent in Hong Kong – where I really released my inner foodie and went hunting for the foodie dishes I’d researched about before embarking on this trip. Mantis prawns featured highly on this trip. They’re something I find synonymous with HK as we can’t get these critters in [...]