My love affair with Chinese street food began at the lamian stall on a tree-lined alleyway, across from the school where I taught English in Danyang, a “small” town of 800,000, near Shanghai.
With the first chewy slurp of lamian (拉面)—hand-pulled noodles—served to me in a rich meat broth, I was addicted.
To create this delectable dish, [...]
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Lamian, My Love!
Posted in China, tagged china, daoxiaomian, la mian, Lamian, noodles, street food on January 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A Little Bit of China in Flushing
Posted in News Roundup, tagged china, Flushing, street food on July 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
When I moved back from China in 2003, I had forgotten how to communicate in English (I couldn’t really speak in Chinese either) and I craved Chinese street food. I spent hours on the internet tracking down recipes, testing the authenticity of cookbooks I discovered, and traipsing from Brighton Beach to Manhattan and Queens and [...]
