Natalia’s Mum and sister are in town so yesterday we did the obligatry trip down to Shanghai for the day to give them my famous “Shanghai in one day special”.
Having had numerous friends and family make fleeting trips to visit me recently after a near two year drought, I have become quite good at the [...]
We took a trip just outside of Suzhou today, to Tongli, a small water town in Wujiang county, just outside of Suzhou. Like Zhouzhuang, Tongli consists of a network of canals interweaving an ancient town and it’s by any stretch of the imagination, much the Suzhou that Marco Polo must have experienced over 500 [...]
This recipe is so ridiculously easy that even a monkey could cook it. This got eaten up so fast, I forgot to take a photo.
Ingredients:
500g Chicken (Wings, thighs, or a whole chicken)
2 tsp 5 spice powder
1 star anise
1 piece of ginger, sliced
2 tbsp sugar
1 tbsp dry sherry
1 Cup of soy sauce
1.5 Cups of Water*
*Or enough [...]
Suck on that Zhao Ban di, another Chinese cultural icon raped and pillaged by the western imperialists.
OSPOP have remade the classic worker sneaker, sported by Chinese migrant workers everywhere as fashion plimsolls. WTF is a Plimsoll? I had to ask too, it’s a rubber-soled canvas shoe for sports or onboard ships; a precursor of trainers [...]
Top aide to Gordon Brown gets seduced by an attractive Chinese woman at a Shanghai hotel night club, takes her back to his room and wakes up and “TA-DA” his blackberry missing.
The incident occurred in Shanghai on the second day of the tour. That evening, about a dozen members of the Downing Street staff went [...]
