Kyrgyz food is basically an epic mix of Central Asian and Chinese foods, which means some fabulous fusion noodle dishes, such as Ashlyan-Fu. This is basically a cold noodle dish featuring hard wheat noodles, as well as strips of starch jelly in a sexy vinegar broth. And its not only cheap as hell, but one…
If you are squeamish about eating horse meat and drinking horse milk, then you should probably give Kyrgyzstan and Central Asia a miss. If though you have the moxie, then you should have a bash at beshbarmak. To cut a long story short, this is boiled horse meat laid atop big fat Chinese style noodles….
Every now and again there is a food so damned that I will do some serious travel to eat it. Thus today I traveled on a fast train for 2 hours a distance of 300 km to eat goats feet (麻辣羊蹄 (má là yáng tí)). Yep I shit you not I primarily did this journey…
Beidahe (北戴河, Běidàihé) is a proper tacky Chinese past its prime seaside resort, but that is exactly what gives it its charm. Combine that with the fact that it is only 2 hours by train from Beijing and you have the ingredients of a place well worth a visit. Formerly and to a degree still…
I take 7-Eleven very seriously, with it often feeling like a friend and ally in difficult times, if for no other reason than the fact that it has Soju. Therefore I was filled with pure elation when I saw that 7-Eleven Tianjin existed. So, is it any good? 7-Eleven Tianjin 7-Eleven is one of the…
While the street food Tianjin scene is actually not all that bad, it is extremely far from being an “underrated gem” as many have stated. Also pretty much all of the information that you see online is either wrong or very out of date. For example, Tianjin Food Street, or Tianjin Cuisine Street, the fake…
