Category Archives: Food

Dim Sum

Posted on December 14, 2016 by The Pearl

Apart from sightseeing, writing and quilting one of the things that has kept me off the streets of Shanghai has been my cookery lessons at The Chinese Cooking Workshop.  Just after we arrived I reported to you my first Dim … Continue reading →

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Prunus Mume

Posted on December 8, 2016 by The Pearl

As I write this in the first week of December, the temperature in Shanghai is in the mid teens.  Having just got back from a three week trip to the England and Scotland this is warm, yet the locals are … Continue reading →

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Gubei’s Pyongyang Restaurant

Posted on November 2, 2016 by The Pearl

 As I think I have mentioned before we live in a predominantly Japanese/ Taiwanese/Korean area of Shanghai, with our own Japanese Department Store, Takashimaya, above our metro station and with a number of smaller shops and restaurants in the area … Continue reading →

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La Mien Hand-Pulled Noodles

Posted on October 31, 2016 by The Pearl

Not long after Rozy arrived in Shanghai we went together as a family, along with a work-colleague of Richard’s, Lucinda and Jenny her visiting daughter, to an evening session at the Chinese Cooking Workshop to learn to make La Mien hand-pulled noodles. … Continue reading →

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China Never Ceases To Surprise

Posted on October 18, 2016 by The Pearl

As I have not really published very much since this time last year, my stories of Shanghai, are now necessarily going to be sent to you out of date and most probably of all out of sequence.  So from now on … Continue reading →

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Inner Mongolian Restaurant: Xi Bei You Mian Cun – Xi Bei Oat Noodle Village

Posted on February 18, 2016 by The Pearl

Richard was the first to go to the Inner Mongolian Restaurant, taken there by his Chinese boss who hails from that northerly province of China that hugs the northern desert country of Outer Mongolia.  We went with Kirsty, Richard’s Scottish development … Continue reading →

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Burn’s Night At Mr Harry’s

Posted on February 6, 2016 by The Pearl

Mr Harry’s is a strange place.  On the West Nanjing Road, more or less on top of Marks and Spencer’s is a British Restaurant.  It is decorated with Union Jacks and knick-knacks you might find in a charity shop back home.  There … Continue reading →

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The Brits Abroad Christmas Party

Posted on December 24, 2015 by The Pearl

The Brits Abroad here in Shanghai have built themselves quite a reputation for having a fun time and their Brits Famous Christmas Party in the first week of December at the Four Seasons Hotel in Puxi was no exception.  I … Continue reading →

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Christmas Dinner at Work

Posted on December 24, 2015 by The Pearl

Last Thursday, Richard’s Development Manager, Kirsty, and her team, with the help of Richard made a British Christmas Dinner for all those in his office in Putuo, Shanghai.  Kirsty had gone to a lot of trouble to make as an … Continue reading →

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Looking for Christmas

Posted on December 23, 2015 by The Pearl

Naturally Christmas is not a big thing here in Shanghai, although the big hotels, the shopping malls and the western restaurants all put Christmas decorations up during the first couple of weeks of December.  But there is not the western … Continue reading →

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