Spicy Beef Broth
(Dish Update #18 – Spicy Beef Broth – Added on September 9th 2012) Out of the 17 dish updates we have released so far, only 2 were spicy and they were of the same dish (Spicy Diced Chicken and Spicy...
View ArticleNo More Greg’s Dish
If I had to choose a single dish which best demonstrates my need for a English-Chinese food app in China, I would definitely go with the dish I wanna speak about today – Stir Fry Green Beans. Before...
View ArticleTen Common Chinese Dishes Vegetarians Can Enjoy Too
Being a vegetarian is tough, or at least that’s the way it seems to a guilty bystander such as myself. You need to be a strong person and very resolved to keep it up. But the Chinese language suggests...
View ArticleNumbingly Spicy Malatang
There’s a common saying in China which goes 食在中国,味在四川 (shí zài zhōng guó, wèi zài sì chuān). It kinda hard to translate but the general meaning is that China has the best food and Sichuan has the best...
View ArticleClass Trip to Guizhou – Part 1
Some of you may have noticed this week has been awfully quite both here and on FOODragon’s Facebook Page. That’s because I have been away on a class trip to Guizhou in the south of China. This field...
View ArticleClass Trip to guizhou – Part 4
(Click here for part 3) Our first destination was an old part of the city called Qingyan Ancient Town (青岩古镇 – qīng yán gǔ zhèn) in the southern outskirts of Guiyang. It wasn’t a photo-friendly day. The...
View ArticleKung Pao Chicken – Subtitled Video Cooking Lesson
A year ago today FOODragon saw the light of day for the first time. Usually people look back and review the highlights but I don't want to do that. Instead I want to give you a little birthday present....
View ArticleActivate Ghost Protocol – Beijing Guijie Restaurants Avenue
TOP SECRET From: IMF HQ Hello Agent Laowai! Intel gathered from your Facebook account and several other assets of IMF (Intermediate Mandarin Forever) suggests a group of your friends is coming to...
View ArticleWWM – Michael de Waal-Montgomery
Wok with Me is FOODragon's Q&A session. Today we Wok with Michael de Waal-Montgomery, the man behind The BLCU Blog. “As much as your hosts want to ‘ganbei’ (toast with you to finish your glass),...
View ArticleSomething Fishy – Yuxiang Eggplant Cooking Lesson
Eggplants ala Yuxiang (鱼香茄子 – yú xiāng qié zi) is one of my favorite dishes ever. It is also one of the trickiest names on the menu – both misleading and hard to translate. It is commonly known as...
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