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Virtual Bite: Best Chinese Food Blogs
By Jamie Caldwell, eChinacities.com RepostThe next best thing to eating Chinese food is reading about it, and we've searched the internet for the Middle Kingdom's most delicious food blogs. Whether serving up recipes, reviewing restaurants, scouring markets, or plastering food porn on their websites, these are the must-read blogs for the dish on China's culinary scene. Take a bite of this enticing blog roll (listed in alphabetical order because I just couldn't pick a favorite) to get your mouth watering and your stomach growling.
Photo: Divine in the Daily
Appetite for China
During a stint in Beijing, Diane Kuan decided that "1.3 billion people must be eating something right" and launched Appetite to let the world know what the most populous nation was chowing down on. Despite branching out to cuisines from Mexican to Vietnamese, Kuan's passion is still clearly rooted in Chinese food, an affection that stems from spending her childhood in her family's Chinese restaurant in Puerto Rico and Cantonese bakery in Boston. The blog's pièce de résistance is a complete list of the 100 Chinese Foods to Try Before You Die -- I dare you to read it without developing your own Appetite for China.
URL: http://appetiteforchina.com
Beijing Haochi
Launched by two students at Tsinghua who know how to eat (and cook) on a budget, this blog offers scrumptious insight into Beijing's best bites. Their tales of unapologetic lust for jianbing make me long for my heyday as a university student in the capital. For now, I'll just have to live vicariously through Haochi's delectable posts and appetizing recipes.
URL: http://beijinghaochi.com/
The Chinese Soup Lady
Started by two sisters who grew up in Canada hating the Chinese soups that their parents served at dinner, the Chinese soup ladies overcame their adolescent aversion to broths and found their adult selves homesick for the food they once eschewed. Chinese soups are acclaimed for their use of lean protein and vegetables, but the Tong sisters break down the nutritional benefits even further. Each recipe ends by listing the trivia-packed helpful benefits and precautions of the soup in question. Who knew that turtle shell is an excellent source of collagen?
URL: http://www.thechinesesouplady.com (you may need a proxy to view this)
Eating Asia
Eating Asia might cover all of the delicious treats the world's largest continent has to offer, but Robyn Eckhardt had a love affair with Chengdu back in the nineties that she and her photographer husband never got over. Eating Asia's strength lies in its an unrestrained passion for eating and insatiable curiosity that often takes the reader from behind the dinner table directly into the kitchen. If Eckhardt's words aren't enough to get your mouth watering, then one glance at her husband's luscious pictures is guaranteed to make your eyes bigger than your stomach.
URL: http://eatingasia.typepad.com
Eileen Eats
When not blogging about tasty treats in and around Beijing, Eileen Wen Mooney moonlights as a published author, food guide editor, and chef of her very own cooking school. Credentials like that can only add up to one thing: a darn good food blog. Her Chinese dictionary of essential dining words is a FOB foodies' bible and her recipes are ridiculously easy to follow for even the most wok-inept home cooks.
URL: http://eileeneats.com
Food & Drink Chengdu
While the writing on this blog isn't groundbreaking journalism, the author gets down and dirty with cheap eats in the capital of the Sichuan province. Often times, Food & Drink Chengdu seems more educational than entertaining, but it's a surefire way to get grounded in Chinese cuisine and learn some practical food vocabulary along the way. For the Hanzi (Chinese characteres) illiterate among us, the handy hotpot menu post is a goldmine in and of itself.
URL: http://www.eatdrinkchengdu.info (if you're in China you'll need a proxy for this one)
Phat in Shanghai
An art director at an international advertising agency in Shanghai, Sandy Ley has an eye for design and a mouth for food. Her dining misadventures around Shanghai (and the rest of China) are refreshingly honest and just plain fun. Phat has been making readers' stomachs growl by dishing up bites of China's best eats with a side of sass since 2009. Don't miss Sandy's epic bike ride in search of the perfect xiaolongbao, which launched a viral sensation amongst Shanghai's internet-savvy foodies and inspired copycat cycling trips all over the city.
URL: http://phatsh.com
Red Cook
A software engineer in New York by day, Kian Lam Kho serves up Chinese food from his Singaporean childhood to hungry netizens around the globe in his free time. Red Cook focuses on how to make authentic Chinese homestyle cooking within the confines of the Pan-Asian aisle at an American grocery store. Luckily for the blog's China-based readers, wet markets stocked with the local ingredients needed to whip up these dishes are just a couple blocks from their computers, leaving no excuses for home cooks to not try their hand at restaurant favorites in the comfort of their own kitchens.
URL: http://www.redcook.net
Shanghai Foodist
A regular contributor to Shanghai's expat rags and sites, Jake DeLois takes followers of his restaurant reviews and dining recommendations a step further with Shanghai Foodist. Besides shamelessly promoting his published articles, Shanghai Foodist offers a user-friendly interface with handy tips on Chinese dining etiquette, DIY recipes, and a never-ending quest for the perfect dumpling. Smart writing combined with inspired story angles make this blog a must-read for all foodies who eat in the 'Hai.
URL: http://www.shanghaifoodist.com
Weird Meat
The brainchild of an erstwhile vegan, Weird Meat presents the musings of a self-proclaimed connoisseur of carnivorous taboos, offal, and insects. Michael mourned the loss of Rudolph's headgear while sampling deer antler gum drops in Shenyang, voraciously dined on a meal of duck blood, chicken embryo, and bull penis in Nanjing, and bravely tested the aphrodisiac properties of snake meat in Taiwan. Weird Meat's postings are rare - averaging once every couple of months or so - but who can blame the guy? After all, there's only so many strange cuts of meat to be devoured!
URL: http://weirdmeat.com
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European Union Commission grants the trademark to Neapolitan pizza “Traditional Specialty Guaranteed” label Authentic Neapolitan Pizza & Italian Cuisine European Union Commission grants the trademark to Neapolitan pizza “Traditional Specialty Guaranteed” label History : Some of the world’s first pizzas were first created in Naples, Italy. Many believe pizza was born in this region centuries ago. Over time, the Neapolitan tradition of pizza was established in the late 19th century. With the emigration of people from Naples to other parts of the world, pizza’s popularity began to take off. The first American pizzeria was opened in 1905 by Italian immigrants. Naples Pizza chef Assotiation Controll : APN For more than 150 years, Italian pizza makers (pizzaioli) were known for producing extraordinary pizzas. However it wasn’t until the last decade that a group of pizzaioli formed an organization that would protect the authenticity of their product. Together they formed the Naples Pizza Chef Assotiation (sponsored by the Naples government) an organization that would clearly define what it meant to be an authentic Neapolitan pizza, and uphold the integrity of their finely tuned pizza-making craft. In 1998, the association became established as a protected legal entity, which allowed these pizzailoi to set the standard for true, authentic Neapolitan pizza. Denomination of Control (DOC) Traditional Speciality Guaranteed (TSG) European Union Commission grants the trademark to Neapolitan pizza “Traditional Specialty Guaranteed” label The APN (Naples Pizza Chef Assotiation established a denomination of control once they became established as a recognized association. This allowed the group to outline strict regulations, defining exactly what it means to create an authentic Neapolitan pizza. While the DOC doesn’t state that the pizzas must be created in Italy, it does demand the production of these pizzas include only the freshest ingredients, many which come straight from Italy. Guiding Principles : In order to be deemed authentic Neapolitan, pizza’s must adhere to the following four basic guidelines: ? A wood-burning oven: The pizza must be cooked by wood. Gas, coal or electric ovens, while they may produce delicious pizza, do not conform to the tradition. ? Proper ingredients: Type 00 flour, San Marzano (plum) tomatoes, all natural fior-di-latte or bufala mozzarella, fresh basil, salt and yeast. Only fresh, all-natural, non¬processed ingredients are acceptable. ? Proper technique: Hand-worked or low speed mixed dough, proper work surface (usually a marble slab), oven temp (300°C), pizza preparation, etc. ? Review: Final review by the designated representative of the association assuring that the ingredients, technique and final product conform to the tradition. Authentic Naples Pizza & Italian Cuisine Find Home in China Beijing –Wenzhou-Xiamen La Pizza 1 - La Pizza 2 in Beijing - Amico Pizza in Wenzhou –Napoli Pizza in xiamen under controll of Naples PizzaChef in China are only a handful of pizzerias in the country, offering true authentic Naples-born pizza
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Very nice site!
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Nice informative site of food which gives pleasures every time we consume!!!!!!!!!!
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Another great food blog in China: artisanfoodsinc.wordpress.com
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This site gonna be my Chinese food guide if ever their is an order from a Chinese person in our restaurant. This site is great and it's really informative blog to visit. Thanks.
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Great blog. Follow us also on The Savoury Road . blogspot . com
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im feling sick that is haraam food
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