Heritage | Main Event | Photography | Recipes | Winter
Suzhou Small Wontons 苏州小馄饨 + mini 2015 recap
This is a nostalgic post -wontons have always been a comforting, slurp-it-up food, both easy to make and easy to save. My mom used to…
Heritage | Main Event | Recipes | Summer
上海鲜肉粽子 Zong Zi – Shanghai Style
UPDATE 3/17/21: Find a reworked, updated recipe in My Shanghai cookbook. I’m leaving the text from this post up, but for the full recipe please…
Heritage | Main Event | Recipes | Winter
Duck-Fat 葱油拌面 Scallion Oil Noodle
葱油拌面 (Cong You Ban Mian) is a classic, Shanghai comfort food. The signature taste comes from frying scallions until they are unrecognizable brown bits and…
Heritage | Main Event | Recipes | Winter
红烧肉 Mom’s Shanghai Style Red-Braised Pork Belly
UPDATED on 3/17/2021 – I am updating this because the recipe that was here has been updated in my debut cookbook, My Shanghai. I’ll leave most…