The History of General Tso’s Chicken
When people ask me what type of food I miss most from the U.S., I have two answers depending on what type of mood I’m in. Sometimes, if I’m craving spicy, I’ll say Mexican food, which is really the only foreign cuisine that has not been duplicated properly in Shanghai. The second answer […]
McDonald’s Expands China Drive-Thru
Friday, McDonald’s opened its first drive-thru restaurant in Beijing as part of a deal with Sinopec, China’s largest operator of gas stations in China. While there are already 15 drive-thru McDonald’s restaurants in Shanghai and south China, the new Beijing outlet will be the first in which drivers can fill up on both gasoline […]
Time for China to Make The Donuts
This place just gets better and better. This week, the Massachusetts-based donut chain Dunkin’ Donuts will open up shop in Taiwan as part of a large-scale entrance into the China market. As reported in a Wall Street Journal article Wednesday, which I can’t link to because they make you subscribe, Dunkin’ Donuts plans to open […]
Forgive me if I have to excuse myself from writing this post and sprint to my Chinese bathroom for a minute or twenty. At least you’ll know why. The food in China is rotten. The Asian Development Bank issued a report Monday warning China that the high incidence of tainted food here […]
Inventor of Cup o’ Noodles Dead at 96
Talk about great men in Asian history. Momofuku Ando, the inventor of instant noodles and cup noodles and founder and chairman of Nissin Food Products died Friday of heart failure in Ikeda, Japan. Ando conceived of instant ramen noodles on his own and after months of trial and error, on August 25, 1958, […]
Chili Cook-Off Spices Up Shanghai
On Sunday afternoon, Bubba’s Texas Style Bar-B-Que and Saloon in West Shanghai hosted the ultimate American event. It was the first-ever Shanghai Chili Cook-Off Championship where Americans and Chinese alike (but mostly Americans) paid 100RMB to drink free-flowing beer and sample 20 different types of chili. There was chili with beans, mesquite chili, […]
KFC Healthier in China Than in U.S.
I didn’t know what trans fats are. So I looked it up and read that they are chemically modified fats produced from the hydrogenation of plant oils and animal fats. I still don’t know what they are. But I hear about them all the time. A few years ago, I started seeing “0g Trans Fat” […]