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…
Abergavenny Food Festival
I’ll talking at the Abergavenny Food Festival on 20th September. Tom Parker-Bowles will be interviewing me. I’m guessing this means that he has forgiven me for…
Unsavoury characters
A few months ago I took part in an event at the British Museum on the challenges of translating Chinese, which turned out to be very…
With Gordon Ramsay on the F-Word
One of the more bizarre things I got up to this summer was helping British uber-chef Gordon Ramsay try his hand at making dim sum, for…