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Oriental City salute

I’ve been invited to the farewell party for Oriental City, which is being “redeveloped/demolished” next week. The last day of trade is June 1 and that evening the mall is having a leaving party at China City Restaurant, which will include food, drink ...

From SALLY PECK, The Telegraph,  29 May 2008

What makes a good pub?

After an absence of many decades, my grandfather came to visit England in 2005. While polite lip service was paid to his keenness to see me settled in my marital home and a desire to accompany my grandmother to the Tate Modern, his search for the ...

From SALLY PECK, The Telegraph,  27 May 2008

Is anti-booze Boris Johnson right?

What should be banned are already drunken revellers; let them first take a breathalyser test before being even allowed through the barriers. A bit tricky though for people taking their shopping home which just happens to contain a couple of bottles of ...

From SALLY PECK, The Telegraph,  7 May 2008
Related Topics: Boris Johnson

Legs and eggs

I’m planning to open a restaurant. Hoot for joy, a branch of classy chain Hooters is to open in Britain It will be called Dicks, and will feature waiters in jockstraps. That’s it. And perhaps some sensible footwear because, well, waitering is hard on ...

From SALLY PECK, The Telegraph,  12 Apr 2008

Eating live prawns

Since returning from China, I’ve encountered predictable greetings, split neatly along gender lines. The ladies would like to know what I bought. (One hot pink Miu Miu bag. It's a work of art, but the second Miu shows serious intentions of jumping ship, ...

From SALLY PECK, The Telegraph,  11 Apr 2008
Related Topics: Tom Parker Bowles

Dim sum in Guangzhou

Ordering from a menu has become a chore. Menus have increasingly become graveyards for bad translations or superfluous superlatives and adjectives that have no business going anywhere near food. By the time you've read your way through the gushing ...

From SALLY PECK, The Telegraph,  2 Apr 2008

Chewing the fat with Chairman Mao

We went to Hunan to eat Mao Zedong's favourite red-braised pork (hóng shao ròu) in its native environment. Food has long been harnessed by various political leaders to improve the strength or spirit of the Chinese people. During the Republican era, ...

From SALLY PECK, The Telegraph,  29 Mar 2008
Related Topics: Mao Zedong,  U.S. Republican Party,  Deng Xiaoping

Chengdu’s Wenshu tea garden

The way a country takes tea says a lot about its people. Anton gets his ears cleaned While studying the history of East Asian art history at university I spent longer than I would have thought possible discussing the why and wherefore of the many ...

From SALLY PECK, The Telegraph,  26 Mar 2008

Hotpot in Chengdu

Partaking of hotpot involves sitting around a bowl of fiery bubbling broth in which you cook anything you can get your hands on. Chengdu hotpot: very nearly too hot to handle It is often described in English as Chinese fondue, but this jars slightly, ...

From SALLY PECK, The Telegraph,  25 Mar 2008

The eating holiday

Last December I had a drink with an Egyptian in Paris whose travel philosophy is essentially that she’ll go anywhere and do anything as long as each day is comprised of at least 75 per cent shopping. The success of a holiday is measured in handbags ...

From SALLY PECK, The Telegraph,  19 Mar 2008

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