Eyes on China – A China travel Blog

Called doufu in its native China, tofu was invented over two millenniums ago by a Chinese scholar and has been a very important food in Chinese cooking until today. Obtained from the milky liquid extracted from soy beans, tofu has the appearance and texture of soft cheese, but only a faint flavor of its own [...]

“The Chinese are very lucky people because wherever they go, they can always find hometown food”
As a Chinese saying goes, “When going to an eating house, go to one that is filled with customers.” A good rules of thumb for choosing the right Chinese restaurants to dine is if the restaurant isn’t packed with customers [...]

The art of Chinese cooking is not, contrary to popular belief, complicated and difficult. Most Chinese dishes do not require a complex processing and equipment in the kitchen as does one of China’s most famous dishes, Peking duck. Simplicity is the key to Chinese cuisine as evidently shown in their various cooking methods. When you [...]

A rough start- the weirdest case of motion sickness ever
We, R, T and I, got to Kunming bus station with stacks of time and found our bus. A nice, modern Daewoo, mercifully not a sleeper (R and I are too tall to do that comfortably). It looked promising. We stowed our luggage and boarded, only [...]

Why I’ve never been to Shanghai before
Expectations are a tricky thing: equally capable of being a barrier between or the impetus towards experience. I realised this when, after over 18 months in China, I finally decided to visit Shanghai. Why had it taken me so long to visit a city that is not only famous [...]