Joey’s pickled onion recipe
Ingredients Whole Sichuan pepper peppercorns 花椒 Chinese cinnamon bark 桂皮，一块 bay leaves, one 香叶，一叶 fresh ginger, slices 姜片 white vinegar 白醋 salt 盐 sugar 糖 pickle...
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Mapo Tofu – stir-fried tofu in chili sauce
麻婆豆腐 má pó dòu fǔ Our friend Li Tian (李恬) is from Chengdu, the home of mapo tofu, and he’s eaten at the restaurant where pock-marked grandma (麻 is for a s...
Fried tomatoes and eggs
This is a common dish found in restaurants and made at home, 番茄炒鸡蛋. I thought it was a healthy option, but now seeing how much oil goes into it I’m going ...
Joey’s steamed fish
This recipe is from our friend Joey who runs the 云台 hotel in 海东，大理. Wash the fish, drain off excess water, rub with salt and leave for half and hour. Place slic...
Soda Bread
Soda bread gets the rise from baking soda (a kind of salt, also known as bicarbonate of soda (UK), sodium bicarbonate, or 蘇打粉[苏] sū dá fěn, in both the US and t...
Chinese kale (jielan cai)
This is one of those mysterious vegetables that is everywhere in China and yet no one else in the world seems to eat it. It’s officially called gailan cai...
Jiaozi and Guotie (pot stickers)
Jiaozi (餃子 jiǎo zi) are the small Chinese dumplings, they can be steamed or boiled. Here’s how to make… Boiled Jiaozi We live in the Himalaya foothi...
Chinese Cabbage Soup
白菜湯 bái cài tāng Ingredients Water, Chinese cabbage, oil, salt.Optional: Borage leaves, mint leaves, Thai fish sauce. Method Boil water on a pot on the stove wi...
Oatmeal soda bread (quick bread)
With the oatmeal, butter and yogurt (an no yeast), this is a heavy, moist bread more like a muffin or cake than a savory loaf. It’s really not for me. I t...