Not what it seems
Last night, I finally made it to Gourmet San (or ‘The Old Place’ as it’s known in Chinese) on the Bethnal Green Road in East London,…
50 Best Cookbooks
Nice to see that the Independent newspaper in Britain has included Sichuan Cookery (published in the US as ‘Land of Plenty’) in its list of the…
Arcimboldo revisited
The sixteenth-century Italian painter Giuseppe Arcimboldo is best known for his striking paintings of human figures made up of fruits and vegetables. And as part of…
Last of the line
The other day I went out fishing in a lake in Zhejiang. At the edge of the lake I met an old man and his wife…
The thinnest noodles in the world
The other night I was introduced over dinner to Li Enhai, a famous noodle chef. Apparently he is noted in the Guinness Book of Records –…
What a lovely breakfast
Even by my usual standards, the breakfast I had the other day in Beijing was a bit weird. When I talk about my usual standards, I…