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Making Chinese food at home, attempt #1

by Jessica Marsden on July 8, 2009

On Monday, I wrote about a cooking class I took in Beijing last month. On Sunday night, I took a crack at preparing a couple of the dishes that we made in class. The main attraction was gongbao jiding, or “kung pao chicken.” (A bit of Googling suggests that the name means “Imperial Governor’s Diced [...]

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A day in a hutong kitchen

by Jessica Marsden on July 7, 2009

This is the first of two posts about learning how to cook Chinese food. Come back Wednesday to read about when I tried it at home. If I’m honest with myself, my love for Chinese food is at least part of why I signed up to move to China for two years. One of my [...]

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You want what on your rice?

by Jessica Marsden on June 24, 2009

I took a cooking class during my brief stop in Beijing last week, about which more will come. But first, a brief story to illustrate the difference between Chinese food in China and American “Chinese food”: After the first part of the lesson, we were all about to dig into our gongbao jiding (better known [...]

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