Cosmetic surgery
Last night I cooked a 60th birthday party dinner for my uncle and his family. As you might guess, it was mainly Sichuanese, although I did…
Those fishy flavours…
In October, I posted something on this blog about unsavoury flavours in Chinese cuisine (‘Stinky to sublime’, 17 October 2008). And last week a New York…
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…