Tag: lamb

Xi'an: More from the Muslim Quarter

Over the course of our time in Xi'an, we failed at most of the things we tried to do: getting off buses at the right stop, arriving at museums before closing time, buying pants, and biking around the city...

05.31.09 | Comments (0)

bread, chicken, china, fried, lamb, noodles, rice, soup, starch, xi'an, yang rou pao mo

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

Huhehaote (Hohhot)

I awoke on the morning of my 28th birthday in a business hotel in gray and rainy Inner Mongolia. This had not been the plan. The plan involved yurts, wide open grasslands, horses, fermented milk, and mutton, not 14...

05.21.09 | Comments (2)

China, dairy, inner mongolia, lamb, mongolian, mutton, yogurt

Beijing

Our return to China filled me with a remarkably strong and surprising joy. Certainly some of this emotion can be explained by the lifting of the economic tension of being in Japan, and some of it by the warm...

05.12.09 | Comments (2)

beef, beijing, candy, china, lamb, noodles, stir-fry, tanghulu, yogurt

One Local Summer #13: Braised Lamb

I am sad to say this marks the last official One Local Summer post. I'll be continuing to eat a lot of local foods and post about them, though! This week I made a recipe from The Herbfarm Cookbook:...

08.28.08 | Comments (2)

lamb, ols, one local summer