Tag: dumplings

Daring Cooks: Chinese Dumplings

This month's Daring Cooks challenge is Chinese dumplings, presented by Use Real Butter. This is my first challenge for the Daring Cooks, and the topic choice could not have been more fortuitous. Not only have we been really excited...

06.14.09 | Comments (10)

chinese, daring cooks, dumplings, pork, soup dumplings, xiao long bao

Suzhou

The trip from Chengdu to Shanghai was our longest train ride yet, something like 36 hours long. We managed to trim a few hours off the trip by stopping in Suzhou and then taking a faster train (because, of...

06.09.09 | Comments (1)

buns, china, dumplings, noodles, suzhou, xiao long xia

Xi'an: Dumpling Banquet

We did venture out of the Muslim Quarter (a few feet out of it anyways) for one meal in Xi'an: a dumpling feast from De Fa Chang. A very well-known and highly publicized institution, De Fa Chang had the...

05.28.09 | Comments (2)

china, dumplings, xi'an

Xi'an

It was a snappy twenty-hour train ride to Xi'an from Huhehaote, during which chilly, brown fields and pink blooming trees gave way to bright greenness and warmth. Xi'an was on our to-do list because of the famous Terracotta Army,...

05.24.09 | Comments (2)

china, dried fruit, dumplings, honey, lamb, lentils, soup dumplings, xi'an