Incredible salt-baked chicken
I’ve always wanted to try this dish, and it was absolutely amazing. I bought a corn-fed chicken and it made a huge difference. The chicken was fantastic – so tender and moist. Honestly, I never thought...
View ArticleDrunken Chicken
The idea of drunken chicken sounded kinda good to me… Boiled chicken, marinated in Chinese rice wine, then cut into pieces and eaten with plain rice. Well, it wasn’t. Blog warning: graphic, unpretty...
View ArticleWhat to do with leftover chicken and turkey: hot and numbing chicken salad...
If you feel like you need an unusual recipe for leftover turkey this Thanksgiving or Christmas, look no further! This recipe is from the excellent Sichuan Cookery by Fuchsia Dunlop, which has about...
View ArticleWhat to do with leftover chicken and turkey: chicken egg fu young
Egg fu young is a very westernised dish; basically a Chinese take on an omelette. The name is said to derive from ‘fu young’, which is a kind of hibiscus with beautiful flowers. The dish consists of...
View ArticleGingery Chinese spring rolls
These are seriously the most delicious spring rolls I have ever eaten, so I’m really excited to share the recipe with you – I hope you get a chance to try them out and fall in love too! Forget soggy...
View ArticleBoxing Day Ideas for Turkey Leftovers!
This is a flashback post that some of you might have already seen at Thanksgiving – but I thought it was worth a repeat for all the UK-based readers who will be up to their eyeballs in turkey this...
View ArticleSteamed fish for Chinese New Year: a healthy celebration recipe!
Five years ago, when I started blogging, the first thing I wrote about was Chinese New Year. So it seems appropriate to come back to it in time for the Year of the Snake (which is to be celebated...
View ArticleGreater Than The (Dim) Sum Of Its Parts
Rumour has it that the best dim sum in London is to be had at the Royal China Group, so I was only too happy to pop along to the flagship Baker Street branch when they asked me to review their spread....
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