This post gives me so much pleasure.  It is always a delight to share the joy that food brings to us but especially so in thi...

Recently we've been obsessed with what the Chinese call '酸菜', directly translated as 'sour vegetable.'  Wh...

We made the most crazily delicious peanut snack ever - the Spicy Mala Peanuts  麻辣花生 - fried peanuts flavored with a mouthwater...

This very easy to make Winter Melon Duck Soup is so delicious and deeply satisfying.  And gorgeous to look at.  And so easy to...

As promised, our post on the amazing artisan shrimp paste that we discovered in Macau.   We recently returned to Macau for a short trip.  It...

Ahh!  This dish is so fragrant that you can scent it from outside of a restaurant!  That is because this classic vegetable st...

We love cake!  Any kind, really, but especially the fancy, good to look at and eat kinda cakes.  For our birthdays I always ma...

We continue with our Dim Sum series today with this classic Quail Egg Siu Mai dumpling 鵪鶉蛋燒賣 .  It’s seldom offered in dim su...

We discovered this neat-o soda recently, selling at a favorite restaurant of ours.  A Hong Kong made cola?  How terribly interesting!  Of co...

This innocuous looking piece of dough is much more interesting than it looks.   This, dear readers, is the not really famous...