Steamed buns, or “man tou,” are a staple in the Beijinger’s diet. I see people buy them by the dozen, dainty Chinese girls eating huge, fluffy ones with their stir-fry for lunch at the local food courts, and plates of them served with various dishes in restaurants. Man tou delivery guys, with bags and bags
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Life & Travel
My family is Cantonese, from Guangdong and Hong Kong, where fish dishes are steamed or fried and almost never spicy, like this Cantonese Steamed Fish. But with a more diverse mix of Chinese emigrating to the US, going out for Chinese food can be a new experience at each restaurant you try. We first tried
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Some of you may have visited the blog this past Saturday, and for that, I am sorry. I’m sorry for any and all eye injuries sustained from being exposed to the hot mess that was this site three days ago. A bad plug-in + 3 failed tech support live chats + the fact that this
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Most days during the week, I have a bowl of cereal or toast for breakfast. But on the weekends, I like to do something a little more extravagant. And after Skyping with the family in Beijing on Friday nights, wherein I inevitably get to see their Saturday morning Chinese breakfast goodies, I inevitably wake up
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This past October, we moved from one Beijing apartment complex to…a different Beijing apartment complex. It doesn’t sound particularly exciting, but it meant moving from a fully furnished service apartment, which felt a lot like living in a hotel–with its cold stone floors, gold console tables, and strangely patterned carpeting (I maintain that brick red, kelly
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As many of you have probably guessed, I love using fruit and/or vegetables in my baking, whether it’s in this Apple Cinnamon Coffee Cake, these heavenly Dark Chocolate Pumpkin Scones, my personal favorite–Peach Pie, or even these tragically failed blackberry squares. It’s my way of clinging to some last vestiges of healthiness and nutritional value whilst I
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Sometimes, no matter how many amazing Chinese restaurants we go to, or fruit-filled wet markets we shop at, or how many Honeymoon Desserts and Paris Baguettes we have mochi and pastries in, we get homesick for the good ol’ U.S. of A. Probably on a daily basis. It sounds weird to be homesick for New
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Today is the day. Even from Beijing, we plan to watch the SuperBowl, courtesy of our phone alarms (a 6:30 ET kick-off means a 7:30 AM kickoff here on the other side of the world), a brand new HDMI cable, FOX Live Streaming, and a hope and a prayer for our VPN and the apartment’s
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