Blog Author - Susan Sheng

Capital Bites: Revisiting STAY, New Pies & Mr. Hong Comes to Beijing
I've been reading a lot about...
A Very Long Tea Party: Waiting Around for Green Tea Restaurant
There are lots of things that Chinese people are good at doing. These things include, but are not restricted to: hand-pulling...
Capital Bites: First Meals & Last Bites
  First broken resolution of 2012: "get up earlier". First food regret of 2012: overcooked beef tenderloin. First nutty food discovery of 2012:...
Say Yes to Yunnan: The Delicacies of Dali
There is a certain softness of speech amongst the Bai women of Yunnan that elides the vowels and tapers off each word. Shanghai women have it too,...
Romantic Skewers at Tori Ton
All edibles can be classified thus: date food and non-date food. Yakitori skewers tend toward the latter camp. However, if you can...
Da Giuliano Serves Small Sweets in Sanlitun
This pasticceria from the people who run Assaggi specializes in two-bite, five-kuai desserts....
Capital Bites: Hello Kitty Anticipation, Temple Brunching and Win New Year's Dinner!
Growing up without an extended family around, Christmas was always a perfunctory affair with just a couple of gifts and maybe a short holiday. Why...
The Great Christmas 2011 Guide: Christmas Sweets
Sweet things! For the holidays! Not a novelty, but definitely some of the best bits of the holidays, I reckon. Not much can beat a fruit mince pie (...