‘Dance’ by Matisse in Nanjing beans
A few pieces in the press over the Chinese New Year: Chopstick tourism – about regional government restaurants in Beijing. You can see on the right…
The joys of garlic
One Chinese vegetable that I always miss when I’m in London is green garlic, which the Sichuanese call suan miao 蒜苗 and people in other parts…
Happy New Year!
Last year I gave you a few photographs of Chinese New Year in Hunan, 2004. This year, here are a couple of photographs of Chinese New…
Chinese winter meats
In the last month of the lunar year, the Sichuanese often cure their own meats: spicy wind-dried sausages, smoked bacon and marinated, wind-dried pork (酱肉)。I was…