Posts tagged ‘Food’

Mmm, Blood Curd.

July 20th, 2009
Maoxuewang 
It is a dish of boiled blood curd, spices and other additives with spicy sauce. The main ingredients of Maoxuewang include raw pig’s blood or duck’s blood, meat of pigs’ heads, bone, pea, etc. Basic cooking process: cook bone and pea soup first; then boil and slice the meat. Cooking of chili Maoxuewang: heat chili and broad-bean source in oil, then mix them with bone and pea soup, boil the slices in the soup. Onions, tomatoes, chili and Chinese prickly ash are added to make it more delicious.

To cook clear soup Maoxuewang, neither heat chili in oil, nor add any Chinese prickly ash. The dish tastes fresh and tender. Of course, every restaurant has its secret method to make the flavor unique.

from eChinacities.com

MMMmm Meat!

June 21st, 2009

delicious duck's blood -- my favorite

That’s right tweeeple, couldn’t help but hit you with my favorite line from Clueless in that title therrre. After some serious template meddling/quasi-arguing with tweeps about whether or not people are actually tweeting out of Iran (are they?) I’m packing it in and heading home for some one-pot noodle. However, I’d rather be eating this no doubt delicious dish just up above in that pic: Poached jellied duck blood & eel & pigs intestines in pungent sauce. I mean seriously, wouldn’t you?

like old country buffet

January 10th, 2009
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but arguably worse as there is a great deal of free booze and some all you can eat sushi. and because some of the free booze is soju – korean paint thinner. it’s also very cheap for an all you can. it used to be 38 yuan, i used to live kitty corner to this place and half a block away it reeks of hot peppers and close up it often reeks of the results of consuming hot peppers and alcohol for four or five hours. you’ll see people sleeping on the chairs in between surges of gluttony. endurance.

mo’blog jan 3

January 3rd, 2009
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KFC had the good sense/connections to get into China right after reform and opening and they have been dominating ever since. McD’s is big but not as big as KFC. Pizza Hut is an upscale eatery and Taco Bell opened two outlets in Shanghai which have since closed, or so I’ve heard.

As you can see from the above bucket of chicken and dim-sum-style egg tarts, KFC has been, and continues to be, very savvy about localization.

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