China

Taiwanese cook book preview

21 February 2011
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Over the last I guess year or so Liv and I have been working on a cookbook that contains recipes from her website and much more. We lost a little bit of momentum with the book from July until recently partly due to work schedules but also because of the long winter nights. Liv works [...]

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Food photos January

1 February 2011
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I was really expecting January to be a quit month photography-wise but it turned out a really busy month. I had my first wedding of the year on the 24th with the lovely Kirstin and Keith, then I finished off the interior and graveyard work for St Johns. I’m also finally building a website for [...]

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Chinese Cooking Class Edinburgh UK

6 August 2010
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On Wednesday 4th August we had the great pleasure of welcoming Scottish MSP Robin Harper and his wife Jenny into our home for a cooking class. Robin has just turned 70 and the class was a complete surprise to him. He’s the only member of the Green party to have been elected to Scottish Parliament [...]

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Xian Lamb Kebab

10 July 2010
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Xi’an has some of the tastiest food I’ve ever eaten. I blogged about Xi’an previously but it really was one of my favourite cities when we visited China. Quieter than Shanghai it has some absolutely amazing food. The highlight for me was the Xi’an lamb kebab which we bought on the street affectionately known as [...]

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Zhujiajiao China

2 August 2007
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Zhu Jia Jiao, which is about an hour’s drive from Shanghai, was the last place we travelled to in July 2007. Zhu Jia Jiao was formed around 1700 years ago and is based around a large canal system. When we went there it was easily the hotest day I have experienced in my life, it [...]

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Terracotta Army, Xi’an

27 July 2007
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Here is my final post from Xi’an. We were there for a total of 5 days but we managed to check out quite a lot of Xi’an. We went to muslim street almost everyday, had a wander around the Drum Tower and visited a few restaurants. On the final day we were in Xi’an we [...]

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Tang Dynasty Theatre Show Xi’an

25 July 2007
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I was originally going to incorporate the below into another post but I loved the show so much I’ve created a post just for itself. We stayed in the Bell Tower hotel in central Xi’an and decided to go to a show organised by the hotel, just to check out Chinese culture. We went to [...]

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Xi’an Drum Tower and City Wall

21 July 2007
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In today’s post there are more photos from around Xi’an, China. There are pictures taken on the city wall that circles Xi’an almost entirely (you can’t quite walk around it in a full loop but you can get close). There are also pictures taken on the drum tower which has the largest drum in the [...]

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Great Mosque of Xi’an

19 July 2007
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Xi’an along with Shanghai were my two favourite cities in China. Shanghai is incredibly modern but Xi’an feels a lot older and one of the old highlights was the Great Mosque which is the oldest standing mosque in China. We had a funny moment when we tried to get in as Liv was asked to [...]

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Xi’am Muslim Street

17 July 2007
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Along with Shanghai I really loved Xi’an. The weather was fantastic, the city is beautiful, generally speaking the people are quite nice and the food was really good there (especially on Muslim Street). During our stay in Xi’an, where we stayed for about a week, we went to see the Terracotta Army, which is quite [...]

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