Tag Archives | Beijing

In light of my upcoming move back to the US, I have been digging through old photos from the past year that have not made it on to the blog. Not surprisingly, almost all are still food related. Like this burger. We found it at a Buddhist vegetarian restaurant last summer in Beijing, near the [...]

When Jacob and I first moved to Beijing we were infatuated with hot pot. It was the beginning of winter, when low temperatures and relentless winds made dinner over a pot of boiling broth very enticing. We didn’t have a kitchen in our first apartment and ate out almost every night at hot pot restaurants [...]

American expats in China, far from home and faced with limited supplies of turkey, have been known to celebrate with Peking duck. Here, duck dinners are the next closest thing to a home-cooked Thanksgiving meal. This was my second Thanksgiving in Beijing, and my second with Peking duck. Really, what is the difference between a [...]

(Steamed Mandarin fish and tofu in saffron soup.) Earlier this week, at an election-night viewing party in Beijing, I was discussing the city’s restaurant scene with a fellow expat. “Name your 5 favorite Chinese restaurants in Beijing,” he said. After rattling off the favorites, it occured to me that most of my top picks were [...]

I was hesitant to visit a restaurant owned by a Taiwanese pop star. In the US, celebrity-backed ventures are usually failures with seriously bad food. It didn’t help that one online reviewer mentioned that the décor was “over the top.” “Really?” I asked my friend, who usually prefers threadbare restaurants where one can feast like [...]