I spent a lovely week falling in love all over again with Chinese cuisine while reading “The Last Chinese Chef” by Nicole Mones (more on that later) and as soon as i turned th e last page over, I had the mother of all cravings for Beggar’s Chicken 叫化鸡 (jiao hua ji). I did the [...]
Tags: beggar's chicken, wu ming ju, 叫化鸡, 无名居
Following my little outing to Kuan Dian 宽店 (map), I still had a couple of kao-ed wing place to try and we headed next to Xidan Chiku 西单翅酷(map)!
What makes this place special? Well, how about up to two weeks waiting time to get a table? Locals are crazy for this little eatery and it [...]
Tags: wings, xidan chiku, 西单翅酷
I’ve been in a chicken wings mood lately!
Beijing is a cyclic city: we had a wings phase, a burger phase, a long island ice tea phase etc… and when I think of the past, I’m always wondering: “where are they now?” or “what happened to all them wings places that were all the craze [...]
There are quite a few decent sushi/teppanyaki options in Beijing, mostly scattered around the CBD, Haidian or even Wangjing but when it comes to the GuLou area, it’s slim pickings. Back in the good old days, there was a gem called Liu Ben Mu off of Ghost Street but it’s been long gone!
Yours truly [...]
Tags: gulou, Ichigo Ichie, sushi
This past saturday, after failing to locate the no-longer-there Dunhuang Shifu, I rerouted the troops towards the Kashgar Representative Office Restaurant 喀什饭庄 (map) as they had never been there. That was all the excuse I needed to get my hands on some Chuan’r, dapanji and other mouth watering goodies.
The restaurant was busier than [...]
Tags: chuan'r, Kashgar, provincial restaurant
I love my provincial restaurants and keep trying to get out and discover them as much as possible and with the cold that is hitting Beijing this winter, I figured some steaming hot Lanzhou noodles would be exactly what the doctor ordered.
I rallied the troops and plans were made to hit the less-traveled roads of [...]
Tags: dunhuang, gansu, Kashgar, provincial restaurant
I’ll start by setting the record straight and mentioning that I AM NOT a big fan of hotpot or 火锅. As much as I love sharing food with people and all that, there is something that bothers me with the concept, especially after i had a Hep scare a few years ago. To make a [...]
Tags: hotpot, 满福楼, 火锅， man fu lou
Nice play on word when “no name” becomes a name, ain’t it? It’s even more fun when the managing company runs two establishments within a minute of each other, both called “No Name” albeit one is a restaurant while the other is a fancy Yunnan restaurant: The NO NAME YUNNAN RESTAURANT 无名云南餐厅. (map)
To say that [...]
Sometime ago, I learned that every province in China had a representative office and restaurant in Beijing where one could go and sample authentic cuisine from the region. The most famous of these was Chuan Ban, the Sichuan Provincial restaurant(map). Having had my share of Sichuan food in various establishments, I was more curious about [...]
Tags: chinese restaurant, chuan ban, provincial restaurant, sichuan restaurant
It’s a cold monday evening in Beijing and your friend from Hunan says they’re in the mood for a spicy meal – This could be the starting scene for a horror movie, I swear! visions of rings of fire, tearful eyes, chili peppers and painful goodness floated through the air. What was surprising was the [...]
Tags: chinese restaurant, sichuan restaurant, yu xin chuan cai
YABB ( Yet Another Beijing Blog) for my pleasure and amusement! I'm hoping some folks might find the information useful or entertaining! It's mostly about strange and unusual happenings in this concrete urban jungle I call home. 