I Feel Like Chinese Tonight: Char siu eggplant, improvised
I didn’t cook for a really long time. In Hanoi, where we lived for a year and a half, where I was housewife for a while, then back to teaching, I rarely cooked, rarely baked, rarely ventured into our minimalist…
Made in Jiānádà: Suzhou Porky Mooncakes
Hello. I’ve been away for a while, haven’t I? It’s been a very hot, busy summer, much of it nowhere near a kitchen to call my own. We were in Morocco for a month, which was lovely in spite of…
Made in Jiānádà: Homestyle porky Eggplant (家常茄子)
Eggplant (茄子 or qiézi) was one of the first words I learned in Mandarin back in early 2009, partly because we ordered it so often that it inevitably had to stick in my head, and partly because it sounded like a…
Made in Jiānádà: Lanzhou Lāmiàn (broth!)
This is part 2 in my noodle series. Part 1 (the hand pulled noodles) is here. This is quite possibly the best broth in the whole universe. Except, perhaps, for a fine Tom Yam with all the bark and twigs…
Made in Jiānádà: Garlicky Chinese cucumber salad
Er, hello. It’s been a while. You may remember me as the person who used Xinjiang noodle dough to make pretty much everything. I’ve been, one might say, busy. I got a new job about two months ago. I can’t…
Made in Jiānádà: Lanzhou Lāmiàn (noodles!)
This is Part 1 in a series on Lanzhou noodles. Part 2 (the broth) is here. This one has been a long time coming. Seriously. This dish is quite possibly the one thing we have eaten the most of in…
