Easy and versatile, this one’s a keeper
Category Archives: dried foods
鵪鶉茄 Chinese eggplant from the 12th century
Nine hundred year old eggplant? Bring it on!
Product review: Black soybean spaghetti
No matter how you cook them, they’re no subsitute for pasta.
Ganba (干巴) Yunnan dried beef
Like any dried meat, the finished ganba is rock hard, and intensely flavorful.
Kitchen lab: Whey miso soup
Some people ask “whey?”
We ask, “whey not?”
Yunnan rice noodles
I can’t say many good things about my current hotel. It reeks of smoke, and this morning I woke up covered in what I can only hope are mosquito bites. But the breakfast is outstanding. Yesterday I had the rice noodle soup, and again was struck my the smoky taste. This time I had theContinue reading “Yunnan rice noodles”
Cheese fans in Kunming!
No, I didn’t meet a tour group from Wisconsin…
Bamboo soup with pork ribs and rice cakes
You can buy dried bamboo shoots in any Asian store… but now you have to cook them.
Thomas David DuBois 