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Pet or food?
Today, I cooked a duck recipe for the first time. It turned out great, but comes at an odd time for me, considering just 3 days ago I bought two little ducklings and are now raising them as pets. So here comes the dilemma. In about 2 months, they’ll be fully grown. And then what?
Duck, Duck..
If you get the feeling like there’s some kind of animal theme going on for the blog since I moved to the countryside, well, you’re right. Animals or more accurately, livestock, are a big part of life here. So I jumped on the country band wagon today…
Thank you, Mr. Fish
We slaughter, scale, and gut a fish. Then we steam it, butter pan-fry it, and make it in a yummy Chinese soup. Read more about the latest adventure, cooking in the Chinese countryside.
A trip to Yiwu: where 1/4 of the world’s drinking straws are made
This region of Zhejiang is famous for manufacturing little things: lightbulbs, pens, lamps, screw drivers, faucets, Q-tips. A quarter of the world’s drinking straws are made in Yiwu. Here, I saw the littlest things marketed on the largest of scales.
Salt
There is widespread panic across China today – people are rushing to buy as much kitchen salt as they can. Stores are raising their prices to cash in on the frenzy, meanwhile consumers continue to buy in bulk.
Happy Chinese New Year!
Celebrating the Spring Festival in Zhejiang province this year! New Year on the mainland is different, especially having spent a few Spring Festival celebrations in HK the last few years. Here, children have been setting ...
From Muse to Food: Pumpkin Pork Rib Chinese Soup
It’s autumn here in Hong Kong. It’s certainly not as cold as New York or Toronto (below zero, I hear!) but the weather fluctuates between warm, sunny days with highs in the low to mid ...