Recent Posts Tagged With 'Chinese'

• Oodles of Noodles

  Posted on Friday November 13th, 2009 at 04:03 in china, Chinese, beijing, noodle soup

  We did our fair share of fine dining in fancy restaurants in Beijing, but one of our favourite finds was the Noodle Bar. This unpretentious little place only seats twelve noodle slurpers at a time at its u-shaped counter, emulating a Japanese sushi b...

• Dinner in the Hutong

  Posted on Thursday November 12th, 2009 at 01:08 in china, Chinese, beijing

  We were utterly exhausted after dragging ourselves round Tiananmen Square, the Forbidden City, Beihei Park, Houhai Lake, and up the Drum Tower… so were delighted to reach the many bars of Nanluogu Xiang in the Dongcheng Hutong area to sit down and ...

• Peking Duck

  Posted on Wednesday October 28th, 2009 at 03:49 in china, Chinese, beijing, peking duck

  We’re just back from a 2 ½ week eating extravaganza around Beijing, Tokyo and Kyoto. We started off in Beijing, where we obviously had to kick off the holiday with some Peking Duck. Da Dong Restaurant is probably the most famous duck restaurant in...

• Yunnan Cuisine

  Posted on Thursday August 20th, 2009 at 04:15 in Chinese, chinatown, lijiang, yunnan province

  We’re just back from a week’s holiday in Yunnan Province in South-West China. Yunnan Province has the largest number of ethnic minorities in China (more than half of the total Chinese minority population according to the Lonely Planet). The cuisi...

• Dim Sum at Raffles

  Posted on Monday March 2nd, 2009 at 05:24 in Chinese, dim sum, raffles city

  I know, it’s been a long time since I actually wrote about anywhere in Singapore – so I thought I’d come back in style… with a visit to somewhere I’ve been planning on going to for ages: Royal China at Raffles.It’s certainly a beautiful s...

• Third Time Unlucky

  Posted on Tuesday November 11th, 2008 at 02:57 in Chinese, chijmes, dim sum, xiao long bao

  After two weeks trekking in the Himalayas coping with average food, we were delighted to get back to Singapore and prepare to gorge ourselves once more. Any time we are away for any length of time, I return with desperate dim sum cravings, and so wit...

• Little Bundles of Joy

  Posted on Friday October 17th, 2008 at 03:16 in Chinese, chinatown, dim sum, duxton hill

  Occasionally I find a new restaurant that gets me really excited… and Dim Joy on Neil Road did just that. I first heard about it in an old copy of Appetite magazine, which promised ‘dim sum delicacies that triumph some of the larger, popular inst...

• Lunch with New Friends

  Posted on Tuesday July 1st, 2008 at 23:43 in Chinese, orchard, dim sum

  I made some new friends in my yoga class and so suggested a Dim Sum get-together for us all. I had read a few complimentary reviews on the net about Imperial Treasure Nan Bei on the fifth floor of Takashimaya, so booked us a table there. Being first ...

• Shopping and Lunch

  Posted on Tuesday April 22nd, 2008 at 03:39 in Chinese, orchard, dim sum

  We had some important business to attend to at Takashimaya… ie. Shopping, but beforehand we ad some equally important business to attend to… ie. Lunch. We didn’t want to go far, so popped into Crystal Jade Kitchen in the basement. This is a muc...

• Cantonese With Friends

  Posted on Monday April 14th, 2008 at 01:43 in Chinese, hong kong

  Friday night in Hong Kong and we were all gathered in preparation for the Hong Kong 7s. It was decided that it would be a sensible idea to line our stomachs and have ourselves a large healthy meal before the nonsense began and we were too busy having...

• Hong Kong Lunch

  Posted on Thursday April 10th, 2008 at 23:49 in Chinese, hong kong

  So we were back in Hong Kong, this time for the Rugby 7s, but had headed up a couple of days early to take in the sights before the rugby carnage began. I was with the girls and we were on our way to the Ladies markets to see what fantastic fake-hand...