When you think of Shaoxing wine, do you picture it in a glass or sizzling in a wok? For most, Shaoxing wine is that clear, amber-hued cooking essential with a distinctive aromatic nose that lends sweet and briny flavours to food, deepening and enriching dishes. But this 3,000-year-old yellow wine, made from glutinous rice, water … Read more
For Hong Kong residents looking for somewhere new to enjoy food and fun without the need to travel far, Shenzhen has emerged as a convenient playground. The city was once considered a backwater, but then a tech and industrial boom changed everything. Many of China’s young, upwardly mobile professionals flooded into the city, leading to … Read more
But there’s one final hurdle that will test the compatibility of your relationship: meeting and eating with the family. Oh, and the wild card? You’re Chinese, your beau is not. How do families work through the dietary clashes that come with entering a multicultural relationship? Photo: Shutterstock “Are the White Husbands invited?” My Chinese girlfriends … Read more
Makers of the Chinese spirit baijiu are reformulating the fiery grain liquid to appeal to a wider client base, including cocktail drinkers in New York, Los Angeles and London. While sales in China are still rising, top baijiu makers such as Kweichow Moutai face far slower growth than in the past as younger consumers increasingly … Read more
“After the break, a lot of people asked for my WeChat details,” he says, before admitting that only a few of these contacts came to fruition. “But what this means to me is that the brands want to do something but aren’t sure where to start.” Bastien Ciocca is the co-founder of bars Hope & … Read more
