I am obviously obsessed with pork. I never got why they called it “the other white meat” because people who prefer chicken seriously need to have their heads examined. In China, the pig is taken pretty seriously. Beef is niu rou (牛肉), or cow meat, chicken ji rou (鸡肉) or chicken meat, but pork? Usually just rou (肉) – as the default Meat (with a capital M) of choice. As I’ve previously documented (blog post here), the Shanghainese know how to fry up a fine piece of pig, but to me, nothing brings out the flavor and porky potential like Cantonese roast pork (烧肉 shao rou, or siu yuk in Cantonese).… READ MORE | 8 Comments
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Shanghai. It’s a place most Beijingers love to hate. The antithesis of Beijing, with its European flavor, narrow sycamore-dotted lanes, and a population inexplicably always in a mad rush. This last trip however, I’ve decided to give in to its charms and give up the mockery to embrace Shanghai – well, at least for a long weekend. It was a gluttonous weekend, where I thoroughly indulged in French dinners (crusty baguettes! real butter! fresh-preshed olive oil!) and burritos (thus far the best I’ve had in China), but it was the first meal of this eating marathon that I count as the food discovery of this journey. Triple-fried porkchop with fried glutinous rice cake (排骨年糕).… READ MORE | 7 Comments