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The Noodle Diaries

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    • State of the Jing: Where have all the food bloggers gone?
    • On the Noodle Road: From Beijing to Rome with Love and Pasta
    • Kong Yi Ji Review: Still Good, Still Relevant, Delivering Exquisite Zhejiang Cuisine
    • The Beijinger 2012 Restaurant Awards- The Chinese Restaurant Winners and Alternatives

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    WHATCHA WANT?

    • Blabbers (22)
    • Cheap Eats (8)
    • Chinese Food (69)
    • Liquid Diet (1)
    • Meal Steal (3)
    • Non-Chinese (3)
    • Organic Living (1)
    • Provincial Restaurants (16)
    • Quick Stirs (1)
    • Random (7)

    Latest Feasts

    • Hello 2019 – Let’s Noodle Again
    • State of the Jing: Where have all the food bloggers gone?
    • On the Noodle Road: From Beijing to Rome with Love and Pasta
    • Kong Yi Ji Review: Still Good, Still Relevant, Delivering Exquisite Zhejiang Cuisine
    • The Beijinger 2012 Restaurant Awards- The Chinese Restaurant Winners and Alternatives

    Ingredients

    • provincial restaurant
    • chuan'r
    • xinjiang food
    • chinese restaurant
    • na jia xiao guan
    • sichuan restaurant
    • Friday dinner
    • yunnan food
    • wings
    • beijing duck
    • Best of Beijing
    • xinjiang provincial
    • xiao yu shan
    • 火锅, man fu lou
    • Kashgar
    • beggar's chicken
    • gulou
    • sushi
    • san yuan li market
    • manchurian
    • yunteng shifu
    • houhai
    • wu ming ju
    • city weekend
    • Beijing Chain Restaurant
    • Beijing's Best Noodles
    • Best Noodles
    • saozi mian
    • Xiao Lao Man
    • dali renjia
    • ningxia noodles
    • The Beijinger restaurant awards
    • shaanxi
    • youpo chemian
    • noodles
    • beijing restaurant awards
    • Xinjiang Islam Restaurant
    • Guo Yao Xiao Ju
    • Crescent Moon
    • laziji
    • zhejiang food
    • rou jia mo
    • breakfast
    • Kellogg's
    • walmart
Hello 2019 – Let’s Noodle Again

Hello 2019 – Let’s Noodle Again

Posted on July 24, 2019July 24, 2019Blabbers, Chinese Food, Random

So, I actually got lazy a while back and lost this domain name by accident back in 2014! Someone snagged it right up and it led to some weird Japanese personal blog! Somehow, today, it ...

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State of the Jing: Where have all the food bloggers gone?

State of the Jing: Where have all the food bloggers gone?

Posted on March 13, 2014Blabbers

Man.. there was a time where the inter webs was bursting with Beijing based food bloggers sharing their experience about restaurants in the city. I fondly remember the beautiful pictures from Beijing Hao Chi, the ...

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On the Noodle Road: From Beijing to Rome with Love and Pasta

On the Noodle Road: From Beijing to Rome with Love and Pasta

Posted on July 23, 2013Blabbers

about a year or two ago, i ended up at Capital M for one of their foodie lectures featuring Jen Lin-Liu, author of Serve the People: A Stir-Fried Journey Through China and co-owner of the ...

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Kong Yi Ji Review: Still Good, Still Relevant, Delivering Exquisite Zhejiang Cuisine

Kong Yi Ji Review: Still Good, Still Relevant, Delivering Exquisite Zhejiang Cuisine

Posted on May 9, 2012January 4, 2013Chinese Food, Meal Steal

Kong Yi Ji 孔乙己 is a pretty popular name among the Chinese, albeit not necessarily for food. The restaurant was named for the alcoholic scholar-bum protagonist of a short story by Lu Xun, the father ...

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The Beijinger 2012 Restaurant Awards- The Chinese Restaurant Winners and Alternatives

The Beijinger 2012 Restaurant Awards- The Chinese Restaurant Winners and Alternatives

Posted on March 27, 2012January 4, 2013Chinese Food, Provincial Restaurants

Part 2 of my ramblings about The Beijinger 2012 Restaurant Awards ( Part one and Part two) deals with something more familiar to the blog: Chinese restaurants! I remember mentioning last year that i was ...

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Home(Plate)Run – Ramblings on The Beijinger Restaurant Awards 2012 Part 1

Posted on March 26, 2012Blabbers, Non-Chinese

it’s been quite the quiet week on the F&B front in Beijing considering that we’ve just had The 2012 Beijinger Restaurant Awards. Maybe everyone is still shocked that Home Plate BBQ took the big one ...

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Rocking ‘Mo, Swingin’ Mian – Qing Tang Fu Keeps it Real

Rocking ‘Mo, Swingin’ Mian – Qing Tang Fu Keeps it Real

Posted on March 8, 2012January 4, 2013Cheap Eats, Chinese Food

.. real good that is… and real cheap! For whatever reason, looking at all the restaurants i go to on a regular basis, this one gets forgotten.. no more, it’s time to give it its ...

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Da Yali Duck Restaurant: Beijing Chain Restaurant with 59 jam-packed branches you never heard off!

Da Yali Duck Restaurant: Beijing Chain Restaurant with 59 jam-packed branches you never heard off!

Posted on February 28, 2012January 4, 2013Cheap Eats, Chinese Food

A couple of months ago, good friend and foodie extraordinaire Tom O’malley, wrote a column on the Beijinger about why “Beijing can’t do great chain restaurants” like Hangzhou. Now, having eaten my share of meals ...

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Saozi Mian: The Hearty Noodle That Goes By Many Names

Saozi Mian: The Hearty Noodle That Goes By Many Names

Posted on February 2, 2012January 4, 2013Chinese Food

Saozi mian 臊子面 are long hand pulled noodles, placed in a rich vegetable and meat broth. Recipes vary, but quite often saozi mian will include pieces of finely chopped potatoes, tofu, meat, eggplant and other ...

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Man Fu Lou: Still one Beijing’s Hidden Dining Hot Pot Gems

Man Fu Lou: Still one Beijing’s Hidden Dining Hot Pot Gems

Posted on January 5, 2012January 4, 2013Chinese Food

I’ve mentioned how I’m not really a hot pot fan but i do make a few exceptions here and there with Man Fu Lou 满福楼大酒店 being my go to place for 铜锅涮羊肉 (Tóng guō shuài ...

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