I wonder if at some point you get used to life as an expat, jumping often between two Countries. Every time I come back to China after a period in Italy, it seems strange to find oriental ingredients and flavors familiar, to see that I’ve missed them. Wanting tofu bamboo, taro, dan dan mian, lotus...
When I go to the grocery store here in Shanghai I let myself go much more instinctively than I did in Italy. When I see an ingredient that smiles at me I grab it without thinking about it: maybe it was a lot that I didn’t see it or it’s likely to be there by...
As I have already told here, living in China I have rediscovered tofu and I am tasting it in all its forms. And in today’s dish we have the unfailing bok choy with tofu skin. What is it?
These sweet and sour fennels flavored with orange were born from a moment of improvisation. Every now and then I am assailed by the unpleasant feeling of always cooking the same things, of not being able to prepare something a little different. I think this is due to the fact that here in Shanghai I...
The bok choy or pak choy is a vegetable that belongs to the cabbage family. Its origins are Chinese and the name means “white vegetables”, and can be found in many varieties: baby bok choy, shanghainese bok choy, green bok choi … I have already tasted all of course! They are always fresh at the...
