(中西合璧的香港美食) 5 min read   Hong Kong—a British colony between 1842 and 1997—has retained its international image since it was handed back to China. Given the city’s multicultural influence, it is no surprise that some of its foods, even dishes that seem indigenous, are actually a fusion between east and west. At the center of […]

(丝路上的美食) Reading Time: 5 minutes  The ancient Silk Road—a network of routes that connected China to the Central Asia and finally Europe—started from Chang’an (长安), the modern-day Xi’an (西安). Through the Silk Road, merchants in camel and horse caravans from the west and south brought their musical instruments, rugs, horses, camels, and spices to China and

 (通行南北的面条) 6 min read   Food plays an outsized role in Chinese culture, and among different Chinese foods, noodles may be the most loved. The type of noodle consumed in China differs from region to region. People in wheat growing areas prefer wheat noodles, while those in rice growing areas favor rice noodles. Moreover, different

(通行南北的饺子) Reading Time: 4 minutes   Every Saturday, I join a group of friends in a decades-old ritual—a dim-sum lunch that includes a plethora of small Cantonese dishes of dumplings, buns, meat balls, pastries, crepe rolls, and fritters. Dim sum (点心) is literally “touch the heart”, but this lunch—reminiscent of our years in Hong Kong where