This is my version of a sweet-and-sour cabbage dish from north-eastern China (not to be confused with the more famous Chinese hot-and-sour cabbage). If you imagine this dish as Slavic cabbage rolls that have been gutted of their meat before being sent through the office shredder, you will not be too far off the [...]
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Stir-fried cabbage with a sweet-and-sour sauce from Henan Province
Posted in China, Vegetables, tagged cabbage, Du Fu, egg-free, gluten-free, Henan Province, peanut-free, sweet-and-sour, vegetarian on 4 September 2008 | 3 Comments »
Shanghai ribs, fast and curvy
Posted in China, Pork, tagged baby back ribs, egg-free, gluten-free, peanut-free, Shanghai, stirfry, sweet-and-sour on 23 August 2008 | 2 Comments »
Here is a stack of black sticky sweet-and-sour ribs, not terribly different from those in the buffet tray. Proper Shanghai ribs would be short and straight, but mine are long and curvaceous tonight. I lacked the foresight to have them them sawed at the butcher’s, and I am irrationally scared of my whop-ass Chinese [...]










