Blog Tag - Cakes
The season to eat King Cakes, also known as galette des rois, has finally arrived! The galette des rois is a cake that is traditionally eaten around...
Just like any other metropolis, Beijing is bursting with trends. This goes for pretty much anything you can think of, however, food certainly ranks...
Northern Chinese people are known for their fondness for flour, and Beijing residents have a particular affinity for the pastry. From traditional...
Everyone nowadays likes to claim that they are a foodie and flood their social media accounts with beautifully retouched pictures of food... but the...
After all the excesses of the Spring Festival break, we're looking for something green, refreshing, and healthy. In other words, it's the perfect...
Every now and then people “discover” that something that we used to eat happily and without conscience is actually terrible and should probably be...
Tucked away on the second floor of Shangdu Soho, GS is the brainchild of by Chinese-Japanese chef Yu Guangqian, who was born and raised in Japan and...
When it comes to food trends, we've seen it all. History repeats itself, and whether the trends are tacky, smelly, and dirty, such as the popular...
Ordering at Daoxiangcun, a time-honored Beijing local pastry shop, can be scary for expats – the indifferent staff, the bad-tempered customers behind...
One problem with being a food writer is that whenever somewhere new opens, a friend will ask you whether you've been there yet. If you haven’t, they...
If there’s a confectionary goddness, then she is a kindly one. After hearing our frequent complaints about the mediocre standard of Beijing’s sweet...
What do you like to munch and slurp on at the movies? Would it be the old go-to, popcorn and a large cup of coke? How about a bottle of ice cold beer...
Beijingers always complain that the confectionary in this city is average, often when compared to the other megacities around the world. Ever since...
Having opened three months ago, Wild Child Coffee in the Dongcheng hutongs thankfully missed the unending mess that was the Great Brickening,...
Street food fads never last long. One minute, matcha-infused desserts are all the rage; then before long, they've given way to the cheese tea craze....