Cooking Lesson

Potentially the best thing we did all week was take a cooking class. The instructor taught out of her hutong home. She spoke very good english and was very funny. We learned how to make fish-flavored shredded pork, stirfry pork with sweet flour sauce, steamed chicken with minced chili, steamed chicken with mushroom, and spicy cabbage. The food was great, we both learned several cooking and seasoning tips, and for the first time in a month and half we were able to cook.

Beijing Part 1 :::: 北京一部分

October 13th 2009
About halfway into the fall, the Chinese celebrate two holidays - Mid-Autumn Festival and National Week. The first holiday usually marks a long weekend of eating Moon Cakes (a rich date-filled pastry-ish treat-ish) and family time. The latter holiday marks, for the better part of a week, a mass mobilization of most of China when everyone plays tourist while waving small Chinese flags. This year ... read more

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For centuries China stood as a leading civilization, outpacing the rest of the world in the arts and sciences, but in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the country was beset by civil unrest, major famines, military defeats, and foreign occupation. A... ... read more

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