Category Archives: Chinese

Char Sui Quail with Two Salads

The refrigerator is almost bare of vegetables.  All I’ve got left is beets and spinach.  It seems such a hardship not being near a Sens style farmers’ market  My full bunch of celery served the cause today in a Martha … Continue reading

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Really Easy Fried Rice

When I got married, one of the first “exotic” dishes I made was fried rice from a Betty Crocker cookbook.   I thought about this because I had a little leftover rice, scallions and ham in the fridge.  This recipe … Continue reading

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Living in the City

I just realized something yesterday that all of you have probably knew.  Stuttgart is a city and not in a Paris kind of way.  It’s a city like Washington, D.C. or New York or Los Angeles.  Big, sprawling and impersonal. … Continue reading

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Chinese Sunday

Hungry but not quite up to massive quantities of pork, we decided to have lunch in one of the town center’s Chinese restaurants.  The fact that this particular restaurant had lots of Chinese customers, recommended it.  Unfortunately I didn’t pay … Continue reading

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Eating Around: Tung Yuen, Strasbourg

Really, there’s only so much heavy, pork and carbohydrate overkill Alsatian food that you can eat when it’s 34 degrees (Celsius, Roger) outside.  Jade, of course, had to have one more ham hock before she went back to school, but … Continue reading

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Can Anyone Tell Me How To Make This?

The photo above is copy-pasted from Juliana Loh’s website  http://julianaloh.com/blog/ It is a spicy Sichuan crispy whole fried fish.   I had something like this in Bangladesh once, only with a sweet and sour sauce.  Juliana had this at Beijing … Continue reading

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Steamed Shrimp and Pork Dumplings

On a visit to Hong Kong, we ended up somehow off the beaten, tourist track hungry and thirsty.   All the restaurant signs and menus were written in Chinese and we didn’t have word one of the language outside of … Continue reading

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Rainy Day Char Sui Quail

Miserable weather outside today.   I decided to put the internet country music radio station on, put on my boots and go all cowboy on some quail, beheading them (why oh why do the French feel it’s necessary to leave … Continue reading

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Talking China, Eating Italian

I think it was in the early 90s that we combined a tour of Hong Kong, People’s Republic of China and Thailand.  Never tour group people, I planned the trip a year in advance, seeking out the family-owned, mid-level hotels … Continue reading

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Yakisoba, Japanese Fast Food

I suppose I’m not so much of a Wagamama addict, as a Asian noodle addict.  Every time I see a bowl of noodles, especially with soup, I want some.  This might have it’s roots in our visit to People’s Republic … Continue reading

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