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If pudding is your favourite part of the meal, then China's not really the place for you! A typical meal for a Chinese family will end with fruit, fresh or...

There’s an old Chinese saying: Firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and tea are the seven necessities to begin a day. For many of us tea would be higher...

If you visited a restaurant in China, and ordered Chow Mein with Meat, what do you think the meat would be? Don’t worry! In spite of various tales you may have...

Archaeologists in Northwest China have unearthed a bowl of noodles approximately 4000 years old. The noodles, made from millet, are long, thin and beautifully preserved,...

Pickling food, as a method of preservation, is an old tradition in China. After harvest, vegetables that weren't eaten immediately were salted and pickled to ensure a...

There’s an old Chinese saying, “to win a man's heart, a woman must first learn how to cook a good pot of soup.You’ll probably gather from that that soup is an...

Forget over-cooked anaemic cabbage! Chinese vegetable cooking results in a dish that is colourful, tasty and healthy! Now what more could you want? To get the best...

For our classic dishes we’re not necessarily including dishes that would be familiar in China but rather Westernised dishes that you’ll find on any...

Many of the classic starters to be found in most Chinese restaurants or takeaways in the West aren’t necessarily found in restaurants in China! But that doesn’t stop...

Literally meaning ‘touch your heart’ Dim Sum has always basically been snack food. The custom originated in Chinese tea houses, but while we in the West may like to have...

If you’re invited to a Chinese home for a meal and you sit down at the dinner table and find yourself eyeball to eyeball with a fish you should be...

In China a man who’s lost his job is said to have had his rice bowl broken. While out on the street people greet each other by asking not ‘How are you?’ but, ‘Have you...

The wok is the king of the Chinese kitchen. Because of the speed of cooking food retains a lot of its goodness, and, although you’re frying in oil, because it’s at a...

The history of Chinese cooking goes back a long way. Experts agree that China has had its own identifiable cuisine for something like 5000 years, and that today’s style...