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Pan-fried, steamed, boiled, filled with soup, filled with custard, filled with crab. We tried all the dumplings in Shanghai. We met up with Daniel’s high school friend Dennis while we were in in town,...

In her travelogue On the Noodle Road about her adventure along the silk road Jen Lin Liu illustrates the food scene from Beijing to Kyrgyzstan. In Xinjiang she stays in a traditional Uighur village...

While traveling city to city we were periodically greeted with trucks or bikes carrying stinky, huge, messy looking barrels. We didn’t understand what was in them or why they were collecting all the smelliest...

Upon arriving to Hangzhou our host Linda was very excited about having her first American guests. She wanted to make us dinner but we told her about our project and how instead we would...

Feeling confident and frugal we decided to figure out subway and bus systems in Chengdu to get us about two hours outside of the city to Sichuan’s culinary museum. We took the subway to...

We spent our last week in Hunan province between the capital, Changsha and a smaller county, Fenghuang home to Miao and Tujia ethnic minorities. We have been keeping up with our research by eating...

Xiao Sun Guan Zhuang and Zheng Jia Zhuang are  small south-eastern villages in Shandong province. We visited Ze’s family for about a week and stayed with various Aunt’s and Uncles. These are farm towns....

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