Blog Tag - cheese

US Cheeses Are America’s Innovation That’s Unbound by Traditions
​The United States is a melting pot of cultures and traditions. Immigrants from all over the world brought their recipes from home and, together, in...
Treat Yourself with these Cheese and Cold Cut Boards
I'm a big fan of sharable food, and one of my favorite go-to things to share is a good cheese or cold cut platter. There are plenty of restaurants...
The Cheesy Secret Behind The Capital’s Top Burgers
You’ve got everything for burger night sorted – patties, sauces, tomatoes, pickles, buns – but one thing remains to be found: the cheese. The...
Booze News: Booze Up the Holiday with New Ladies Night, Hot Cheese, Tacos, and... Did We Mention Booze?
Thirsty? Wet your whistle with Booze News, our wrap-up of the week's best deals, parties, concoctions, industry gossip, and more. Q MEX Solana rolls...
Double Your Dairy With These Cheesy Ice Creams from Heytea
Are you a Heytea fan who loves that signature cream cheese topping blended with a fruit tea base but hate ordering ahead of time or waiting in...
Throwback Thursday: The Man Who Cheesed Beijing
Ten years ago this month, we reported on a man who was at that time Beijing’s sole cheesemonger. Liu Yan began his fromaging career as a foreign...
No Bull: 92.3 Percent of Chinese Believed to Be Lactose Intolerant
Ahead of the 2019 Beijing Pizza Festival, on Oct 19-20, 11am-8pm at Galaxy Soho, we take a deep dive on absolutely everything pizza. The percentage...
Make That a Double Cheese Burger: On the Joys of Coagulated Animal Milk
We have a rule in the Jenne/Zhang household that any snack food purchased for common consumption must pass the “bait test,” i.e. “Did Jeremiah ever...
Hallelujah! China's Cheese Ban Has Been Lifted
Let the floodgates fly open and the fromage flow freely! Yes, China's recent, highly contentious ban on several soft cheeses and blue cheeses has...
No Whey! Certain Soft Ripened Cheeses Banned from Import to China
Who doesn’t like cheese (whether you call it kaas, fromage, or formaggio)? These shining dairy-based products with a wide range of textures, and...
Blazing Buns: Baozza Begins Residency at Gulu Bazz With Flambé Dessert Bao and More
“I guarantee we’re the only place that flambé bao,” Alex Cree quips gleefully as his fellow mad scientist Badr Benjelloun sets a row of dessert...
Throwback Thursday: Thank You, "The French Shop," for Providing Dongcheng with Cheese for 8 Years So Far
Throwback Thursday takes a look back into Beijing's past, using our nine-year-strong blog archives as the source for a glance at the weird and...
R Fast Food Watch: Yoshinoya Tries to Tempt Early Risers With French Toast Options
It looks like Yoshinoya is trying to make us forget all about the Egg McMuffin or our favorite street-side jianbing stands. Although the Japanese...
New Italian Wine Bar Buona Bocca Draws Crowds Just off Xindong Lu
Just off Xindong Lu, opposite Jenny Lou's, a new Italian wine bar is drawing quite the crowd. We went early in the day but by the time we left the...
Exotic Dishes which You’ve been Fooled
Walking through the busy streets of downtown Beijing, it’s hard not to notice another streetside stand pop up, especially when there’s a long queue...