Someone call Professor Oak, because I’ve officially caught them all. I had already traveled through most of China in the late 1990s, but Qinghai was the last one – the one place I had never been. I finally made the trip last week, and just to celebrate the occasion, the gods of travel decided toContinue reading “Qinghai – and the best yoghurt in China”
Category Archives: Recipes
Milk of Mongolia
Did you know that I am very interested in milk? Most people who have spent more than two minutes with me tend to become aware of that, at which point they decide that two minutes was already more than enough, thank you. I am still in Hulunbuir, having had a very eventful couple of weeks,Continue reading “Milk of Mongolia”
Back in Hulunbuir – dry fried beef 干煸牛肉丝
Well, I’m an idiot. My original plan was to take the slow and winding train trip from Shenzhen to Hailar. This was actually two trips, about 28 hours from Shenzhen to Zhangjiakou, and then another 33 hours from Zhangjiakou to Hailar. I did the first trip, and met lots of fun people, including the managerContinue reading “Back in Hulunbuir – dry fried beef 干煸牛肉丝”
Montana! (smoked beef brisket)
Grass-fed beef is delicious, but in the words of Tommy Chong, can you smoke it?
abai 阿拜
No, they’re not “Taiwanese tamales”
Cinnamon rolls!
The easiest cinnamon rolls you could make.
Food in Hong Kong (aka, no love for Jade Panda Garden)
A lot of people tell me they don’t like Hong Kong. At first, neither did I. The first time I came here in the mid-90s, I had just spent couple of really nice weeks in pre-casino Macao. The comparison was pretty stark: where Macao was nice and quiet, full of piazzas and egg tarts, Hong Kong seemed noisy, pollutedContinue reading “Food in Hong Kong (aka, no love for Jade Panda Garden)”
Recipe: Two minute avocado chocolate mousse
What? Another one? It seems you can’t take two steps on the Internet without tripping over another recipe for avocado chocolate mousse. Some are good, some – not so much. I threw this together without a recipe in all of two minutes, and the result was surprisingly tasty. Of course, I had the benefit of starting with ice cream, butContinue reading “Recipe: Two minute avocado chocolate mousse”
Recipe: Quinoa and kabocha salad
Quinoa is a nice little grain from the Andes (technically it’s not a grain, but don’t ask me to explain why) that became popular a few years back, and is now widely available. Like most heritage grains, it has a bit more taste and texture (not to mention nutrition) than most mass marketed counterparts, whichContinue reading “Recipe: Quinoa and kabocha salad”
Recipe: Kale salad with grilled beef
Hey Tom, whatever happened to your recipe blog? Well, the old one is out there somewhere, but heck if I know where. In the spirit of moving on, I will just post new recipes here. This salad was inspired partially by something we had at Agava Restaurant in Ithaca, and partially by a big pileContinue reading “Recipe: Kale salad with grilled beef”
Thomas David DuBois 