We (Jen and Christine) live in Beijing. We cook, eat, and document all kinds of food, Chinese and not-Chinese, that we find in our adventures in the ‘Jing.
About Beijing Haochi
We like the ambiguity of Beijing Haochi 北京好吃 in Chinese. It might mean Beijing Hao3Chi1, or Beijing is Delicious. It might mean Beijing Hao4Chi1, or that Beijing Loves to Eat. All are pretty much spot on.
Our blog is about finding and recreating tasty Chinese foodstuffs that otherwise would be super-available, super-convenient, and super-inexpensive. We enjoy spending precious time and money and bicycle energy in order to seek out the best specimens in hidey-holes about town.
This blog is also about cooking Western food that otherwise would be super-expensive, super-inconvenient, and often not-so-tasty. We devote precious time and money and thought to adapting recipes and sourcing local ingredients for toothsome non-Chinese foodstuffs that we miss terribly. All this cookery is done in our closet-like kitchens with nothing more than a toaster oven and busted burners.
About Us
On most days we are students at Tsinghua University in Haidian.
We are the only two non-locals we know living in Beijing whose larders are full of food.
Christine grew up in Los Angeles and recently relocated from the Bay Area. Uses a Lomo LC-A, Diana, and Lumix LC-3. Loves rice, fetishizes Japan, and speaks fluent Chinglish.
She excels in eating things out of plastic bags.
Jen grew up everywhere and nowhere, and most recently migrated from Hong Kong where she was a lawyer who only wore black. Before that, she hung her hat up in Berkeley and New York City, where she perhaps ate too much tasty food and definitely drank too much of…everything. She shoots with a Nikon D80 and a Mini-Diana. She hates rice, loves scotch both fine and crappy, and speaks fluent nonsense.
She excels in drinking things out of paper bags.
Please contact us at beijinghaochi (a) gmail.com.
