大槐树烤肉馆 - Big Scholar Tree BBQ
2009-08-23 18:30
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Submitted by richardp on Fri, 2009/08/21 - 12:49.金湖茶餐厅 - Golden Lake Dim Sum
2009-07-12 18:30
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Some things need reasons. Fiscal policy, and going to Ikea are examples of this. Sunday dinners, on the other hand, do not require a reason. Friend George is organising a Karaoke afternoon at nearby Cashbox which is a great reason to head right round the corner for Dim Sum afterward. Not, as I have stated above, that a Sunday dinner needs a reason.
Dim Sum is good here with the prawn (shrimp) wantons a must order and the buns and dumplings the perfect summer comfort food.
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Submitted by richardp on Fri, 2009/07/10 - 13:35.蚝邸36号 Hao Di 36 Seafood BBQ
2009-06-28 18:30
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Dinner this week is at another place around the corner from me. Run by some local lads, one with an impressive fresco covering most of his back and another who does a very convincing impersonation of Philippine Chinese despite coming from right round the corner, and rented from an aunt, this place is worth attending mostly because it is fun. It is converted ping fang, nothing that could be called a Si He Yuan, painted pink with a simple grill and in and outdoor seating. There is a boom box in the corner of the yard playing a refreshingly diverse selection of music from the last twenty years both local and foreign and a near endless torrent of teasing directed at the guy with the tattoos, who while being the coolest of the comrades running the place, also seems to be the butt of every joke.
The food is good with the BBQ standard high and some noteworthy cold dishes, the spicy fried peanuts being a favourite.
Sunday promises to be cooler than this week has been so come sit in the shade under the tree and eat.
Some interesting facts about the number 36.
This is the static image you get at their website - not sure the meaning of loading is completely understood:
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Submitted by richardp on Thu, 2009/06/25 - 14:45.牛哥饺子 - Ox Brother Dumplings
2009-06-14 18:30
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Niu Ge is a lunchtime favourite in our office. The Jiaozi are great - with skins I would describe as al dente because I don't know the Chinese word for Jiaozi pi that have that perfect consistency and stick ever-so-slightly to one's teeth. Oh, and because I think that people who use words like toothsome and deplaned should be smacked - sternly. The fillings are also adventurous with items like roast duck and desert specialties like spiced pear.
So if you want delicious Jiaozi, more of me being didactic about how English is best spoken, and perhaps a walk around the forbidden city to aid the digestion join in on Sunday night.
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Hungry yet?
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Submitted by richardp on Thu, 2009/06/11 - 12:01.天下盐 - Lord of Salt
2009-06-07 18:30
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This week - another suggestion. This time from dinner regular, friend and blogger of renown, Josh. While Josh shows considerable thought and nuance in his comments on Beijing and China - he is subject to the occasional complete lack of judgment - as displayed by him letting me comment on his blog.
Dinner this week, though, promises fine Sichuan fare and a great atmosphere. The Nan Xin Can complex being one of Beijing's under-hyped eating areas and great at this time of year.
I hope to find out more about the interesting translation of 天下盐 ('all the salt under heaven' with my limited understanding) as 'Lord of Salt'...
The Lord of the Dance, not to be confused with the Lord of Salt.
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Submitted by richardp on Fri, 2009/06/05 - 15:01.Full of Zong Zi
No dinner this week after 7 days of Zongzi based gluttony - this Sunday will be a day of rest.
眉州东坡酒楼 (无培根) - Dong Po of Meizhou (Bacon-free)
2009-05-24 18:30
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Bacon can break your heart. Not only is its porcine goodness largely due to salt and fat, but it can also be a fickle mistress. My spirits leaped recently with promises of mail order 'squeez bacon', only to find my heart had been toyed with in a merciless and callous fashion. A similar fate was in store when, to strengthen the recommendation of this weeks restaurant, I was told that the managing company are also sole suppliers of bacon to Hormel in China. This, it turns out, is not true. They do, however, co-brand a sausage sold be Hormel. I am assured, however, that bacon or not, the food at this weeks suggestion is delicious. So come join us in a culinary journey to the bacon free eastern hills of MeiZhou.
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Above, mythical Squeeze Bacon, not to be confused with very real actual bacon below. Apparently neither of these have much to do with this week's dinner. |
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Submitted by richardp on Fri, 2009/05/22 - 13:16.Friends Japanese Wings - 朋友の手羽先
2009-05-17 18:30
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This weeks dinner was inspired by a yellow glow a smile and a deadline. Rushing home the other day I noticed that a local wings restaurant had been converted, as happens with amazing frequency round my way, to a Yakitori shop. I love Yakitori, which is engaged along with Chuanr in a daily struggle for my heart. And, riding past on my bike in the amber evening light, speckled with construction dust, the glow from inside the shop and the beaming grin of the guy behind the grill set in me a firm conviction that I should one day eat there.
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Submitted by richardp on Fri, 2009/05/15 - 15:38.No Dinner this Week.
Feel free to eat amongst yourselves - I won't object.
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Submitted by richardp on Fri, 2009/05/08 - 17:32.80后 - Post 80's
2009-05-03 18:30
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In the backwater from which I hail, people born after 1980 are considered young, and it is frowned on at best should they take it into their heads to desire management responsibility, attempt to start a business or generally wish to be taken seriously. In China the 'post-80's generation' is often vilified as a me generation, self-centered and self-interested while not being sufficiently self-aware or self-effacing. I could continue with extensive analysis of this topic, but why not save that for a round (or square) table on Sunday?
Post 80's is a small Wings and Skewers joint opened by two post 80's guys near but not quite in the Nan Luo Gu Xiang 'zone of tourism and hipness'. I will give the young whipper snappers this: they make great wings:
(Actually both owners once cooked at the China World Hotel at one point which shows in the greater than average attention to detail and elegance of their sauces and flavourings.)
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| Delicious chicken wings from the post 80's era. Not to be confused with Wings, the band, not from the post 80's era. |
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Submitted by richardp on Fri, 2009/05/01 - 14:23.
