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?…
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…
Potstickers from Heaven via Ken Hom on Saturday Kitchen
I love a good potsticker but I had never tried to cook them myself so this week when the desire to consume a large plateful became all too much I just had to make the effort to produce a panful. So where did the inspiration come from? It came from two places first from the…
Easy One Pot – Slow-Cooked, Five-Spiced pork with snap peas inspiration from Fine Cooking Magazine
Every so often I pick up a gem of a recipe from my ever expanding collection of food magazines and cookbooks. This one is for a Slow-Cooker Five-Spice Pork with Snap Peas (by Julissa Roberts from Fine Cooking). I had picked up a copy of Fine Cooking Magazine (the Winter Classics edition) while waiting in the departure lounge…
The ‘Gumbo Shop’ Gumbo – New Orleans inspired fare
This weekend we made Chicken Andouille Gumbo inspired from a trip to New Orleans. The recipe is based on one from the “The Gumbo Shop“, in New Orleans CHICKEN ANDOUILLE GUMBO – 8.50 “Boneless chicken, Andouille (a Cajun Sausage), okra and seasonings simmered in chicken stock – Selected by locals as the best Gumbo in the…
Clover Grill – For Breakfast on Bourbon Street, any time any day
Clover Grill at the end of Bourbon Street at Romaine is the sort of establishment that you should aim to find yourself at the end of a long night spent enjoying the delights of Bourbon Street, or at the start of a long night. Perhaps both? In a somewhat fragile state we were well…
Johnny’s PoBoys – Time for a Shrimp PoBoy!
Johnny’s Po-Boys has been in the French Quarter at 511 St. Louis Street since 1950, they started out as a grocery store and sandwich shop on Chartres, but as the Quarter grew th,ey moved where the people needed them. I came here just looking for a simple (or not so simple) Shrimp Poboy or maybe perhaps a tasty…
