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In China, food is a serious affair, and one that is best enjoyed with as many people as possible. In the States, if you show up to a restaurant with a party of 12 and no reservation, you’re likely to set the staff into a frenzy of table-rearranging — and that’s if you’re not turned [...]
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Update: If you’re planning a trip, check out my guide to Xiamen for detailed hotel, restaurant and transportation information (3/29/2010). After two days visiting the tulou in western Fujian, my friends and I returned to the port city of Xiamen (Amoy). With less than 24 hours to explore the city before our flight back to [...]
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Japan is full of wonderful things, many food-related — among them, okonomiyaki pancakes, conveyor belt sushi and convenience-store food of the highest order. But nothing screamed out to be written about here until last night, when we discovered Kyoto’s truly weird “Sweets Paradise.” We were trolling the streets of Kyoto in search of something sweet [...]
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Until you’ve lived in China, it’s hard to understand the speed with which everything changes: restaurants, neighborhoods, government regulations, you name it. This is an occupational hazard of travel writing here, since the expiration date on your recommendations can pass in the blink of an eye. You might recommend a neighborhood for shaokao, only to [...]
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Another entry in the annals of strange Chinese interpretations of Western foods, spotted on the streets of Nanchang: The filling was an orange-dyed processed chicken patty; the bread a tempura-battered hamburger bun. We saw them all over the city. I didn’t dare to eat one (a sniff was enough), but my companion pronounced them delicious.
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Each morning, Malaysia’s kopitiams — coffee shops — are abuzz with clinking cups, rustling newspapers and the hum of voices speaking Malaysian and Chinese. Just one or two ringgit buys a small mug of rich, strong kopi, which comes with a healthy dose of condensed milk. (If you don’t want the milk, ask for a [...]
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This is the third post of a weeklong series recapping my August trip to the western Chinese provinces of Gansu and Qinghai. See the first and second posts in the series. Many of the foods we encountered in western China bore little, if any, resemblance to what one thinks of as “Chinese food”. Yes, we [...]
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All over western China, you can find stalls selling 肉夹饼, pronounced roujiabing. At it’s most basic, a roujiabing is a seasoned chopped meat filling, stuffed inside a round pocket of bread. But not all roujiabing are created equal — and I’m not talking about quality. As we traveled around Gansu and Qinghai, every bite into [...]
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One of my favorite things to do in a new city is to check out the grocery store or outdoor market — wherever the locals shop. I’m not interested in the touristified market packed with overpriced “delicacies.” In Bergen, Norway, the fish market now sells (admittedly delicious) smoked salmon for roughly four times the price [...]
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