In the evenings as I walked along the street by the hotel I kept on seeing places that were selling BBQ meats and poultry. The whole ducks were hanging in the windows and they looked so tasty I felt that I had to stop in and try some at one of the places. Which one?…
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China Day 4: Back to Dongmen Pedestrian Market for more Street Food.
I did say that I was coming back to the Dongmen Pedestrian Market to try some more of their street food and as I was passing by during lunch I just stopped in and bought one quick snack which turned out to be quite a decent little bite. That ‘little’ bite was a ‘Jianbing’, 煎饼…
China Day 3: Dongmen Pedestrian Market – Street Food in Shenzhen
Now this is more like it! I had to find some thing really local and I wanted to find something on the streets, so I did a little searching and found myself at the Dongmen Pedestrian Market. I was expecting something more old world, something on a small narrow street down a dark alley. What…
China Day 2: In Food Memory Dreamland – Finding some Hubei Food from Wuhan in Shenzhen
It is my Second full day in Shenzhen and during a business meeting it transpired that my business associate Wesley was from Hubei, the area that I had once lived for 6 months a few years back (well when I said a few it was 1998). We talked fondly of the food from that area…
China Day 1: Searching for Food memories in Shenzhen China – Soup and Dumplings
Although I was primarily visiting Shenzhen in China on a business trip I was hoping to search and capture some food memories of Chinese Food that I ate back in the late 90’s when I worked in China for a while after completing my PhD at the Chinese Academy of Science in Wuhan. I was hard to believe that it really…
