Posts Tagged ‘China’

Feb
03

Happy Chinese New Year: Food and Wine Matching Hunanese-style

by Gareth Groves

Chinese New Year

In an ideal world, I would celebrate tonight with a chilled beer or three and some seriously spicy food at the London fooderati’s Sichuan restaurant of choice: Chilli Cool. Cumin and chilli encrusted mini-lamb skewers? Yes please. Deep fried pigs’ intestines? Hell yeah. Sea-spicy aubergine? Never miss it.

However, owing to a change in recent circumstances, I’ll be at …

Mar
10

Drink them while you can

By Michael Coupar

Many years ago, back when a TV still cost a week’s wages, red was a colour to be feared, and China was something you drank tea out of rather than flew to for a spot of shopping, I backpacked in that distant country. While out there I sampled a few of their ‘rice wines’, getting a little inebriated along the way. I liked what I drank, and also what I saw – many …

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