In the market with Chef Zhao A Black Silkie Chicken! Makin’ dumplings! Me and my dumpling! Perfect pleats! Our dumpling feast! As our month in China was, in great measure, a “foodie” trip for Chef Dan and I, I booked us a number of “food tours”, as well as two Read more…
Wine tasting at the Changyu Winery! The Great Wall The Great Wine: Changyu Wine Chateau Wine Tasting at Changyu For anyone contemplating a trip to China, walking The Great Wall is a “Must-Do”, even if you just walk a bit of it, and so it was absolutely essential I find Read more…
The Forbidden City Peking Duck at Duck de Chine… Our palatial Chairman’s Suite at the Beijing Hotel NUO! Meat-on-a-Stick at Wangfujing! In honor of our Third Second Honeymoon (which I had emailed them about when I booked…), the gorgeous and historic Beijing Hotel NUO (originally Raffles) gave us an Read more…
Shanghai at night on the Huangpu River Classic 1930s Jazz at the Jazz Bar at the Peace Hotel Cruise on the Huangpu River The Bullet Train to Beijing! As I mentioned in my previous post, we first went to the historic Peace Hotel on our Shanghai-Lander “Breakfast and Bund” Tour, Read more…
Tongli Water Town Xitang Water Town Tongli Water Town Our Tongli Gondolier! Cormorants – Tongli Water Town Our third day in Shanghai we took an excellent full-day tour to two of the beautiful Water Towns, Tongli and Xitang, near Shanghai, with Miki Tours. I booked this tour through Viator, as Read more…
Hand-Pulling Noodles… MARVELOUS Shanghai Soup Dumplings! Shanghai Tea House Making THE best soup dumplings! THE best Shanghai breakfast WonTons! We did a lot of fun things during our five first days in China in Shanghai, but because this was a “foodie-centric” trip, I am going to devote this Read more…
Baiju tasting…. Tea in Shanghai… On a boat in one of the “Water Towns”… Yummy “meat-on-a-stick”! Learning to make dumplings Steam Train… Bullet Train… Harbin Ice Festival Terracotta Warriors… Pandas! My chef husband and I just came back from an amazing month in China- a 40+ year dream of Read more…